One of the most helpful features in Lightroom is called Smart Collections, one of a broad number of tools that Lightroom provides for organizing and locating your photographs. Check out this excellent video lesson if you have not yet used Smart Collections to manage your images. It will explain what Smart Collections are and how you can use them to collect your pictures in the best way possible.
This informative video lesson was created for you by Anthony Morganti, and it will walk you through the process of utilizing Smart Collections in Lightroom from start to finish. You’re undoubtedly already aware that Lightroom allows you to compile photo albums referred to as “Collections.” Smart Collections go further than this by automatically filling the folder based on the parameters you choose to provide.
This can be based on ratings, colour labels, or keywords, or it can be found on metadata, such as the ISO level, the date the photo was taken, or just about any other relevant information you can think of. Ratings, colour labels, and keywords are all examples of this type of information. Even more helpful is that you may combine various criteria using logical connections, such as “taken in 2021” and “ranked higher than three stars.”
They are a constructive approach to maintaining collections of various photos that are readily available without having to manually put in a significant amount of effort to populate them. The whole breakdown, as presented by Morganti, can be found in the video that can be found above.
