Creating Collections Across Filesystem Folders

sxross

• 16. November 2011 03:26

I may be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole here but I'm attempting to use fewer tools for a simple job. I use Lightroom to manage my image files. If I want to look one up at random, then that's where I turn. But for a give shoot -- say 4 days worth, I might have 6 folders of images and I want to create collections with images from several folders.

Is there a way to drill down into subfolders so that I can have:

San Francisco
> Tuesday
>> Models Outdoor
>> Models Indoor
> Wednesday
>> Golden Gate Bridge

and find all the 3+ star images using a smart collection?

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  Markus231

  • 16. November 2011 07:35

  Try this:
  Create a new album(not a smart album) and drag all your images from each subfolder into it.
  Now you can perform a search in this album and filter your desired criteria.

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  sxross

  • 16. November 2011 17:10

  So the proposed fix is to reorganize the images in the filesystem?

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  Markus231

  • 16. November 2011 17:34

  Albums are independent from the filesystem.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 16. November 2011 18:05

  Perhaps Smart Albums are an option as well. Based on your criteria, a Smart Album is automatically populated with images.
  
  Albums and Smart Albums are pointers to images within a session. For Smart Albums it is best to make all your image folders known in the Session Favorites.

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  Markus231

  • 16. November 2011 18:10

  [quote="Paul_E" wrote:
  ... make all your image folders known in the Session Favorites.

  
  That is a great tip. Thank you!

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  sxross

  • 16. November 2011 18:17

  Thanks!

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