way as the previous line, except instead
of choosing the filetype Raw, choose
the filetype Digital Negative (DNG).
Needless to say, if you use only DNGs,
or only original RAW formats, you don’t
have to create two lines of filtering cri-
teria. But if you’re like me and have
both, and want all your RAW files in one
place, then create the criteria for both.
Most importantly, if you were to hit
Save with this configuration, no images
would propagate your new Collection.
There’s an important step I overlooked,
on purpose.
There’s another small dropdown menu
we must pay attention to when creating
Smart Collections with multiple lines of
criteria. We have to set the Match criteria.
For this Smart Collection in particular,
you’ll want to change it from its default
“all” to “any.” Doing this tells Lightroom
to populate the Smart Collection with any
of the created criteria. If you left it set to
the “all” default, only files that matched
both criteria would be collected, which by
definition in this case would be zero files.
Pro Tip—When I’m in the field, I want
a speedy import. So, I don’t convert my
images to DNG. Instead, I do it after I
get back to my studio. I’ve made a Smart
Collection to house all of my non-DNG
RAW files. Then, when I’m ready and
have the time to convert such RAW files,
I can simply go to the Smart Collection,
select all of those images and convert
them to DNG by going to the Library
menu at the top of the screen and select-
ing Convert Photo to DNG.
Here are a few more recipes. Open
the Smart Collection dialogue and name
this Collection “Developed.” Next, go
to the dropdown menu where we pre-
viously selected Filetype, but this time
go to Develop, then go to “Has Adjust-
ments.” Then choose “is true” in the
following dropdown menu. After you
click Save, your new Smart Collection
will be populated with all the images
that have been developed. Conversely,
you can create another Smart Collec-
tion and name it Undeveloped to have
a collection of images that need devel-
oping or haven’t yet been developed. To
make such a Smart Collection, all you’d
need to do differently than the previous
Smart Collection I suggested would be
to choose “is false” instead of “is true.”
After hitting Save in this case, your new
Smart Collection would be populated
with images with no adjustments.
Of course, you can get creative and
make combinations of criteria. With my
workflow as described earlier in this
article series, there are two things I do
after importing images into Lightroom:
I separate my good images—my images
that are worth my time in the develop
module—from my bad images, and I
organize my imports categorically by
adding keywords. Bearing that in mind,
here’s how you create a Smart Collection
that targets undeveloped images from
your most recent trip.
Let’s say your last trip was to Alaska.
Create a Smart Collection and name
it “Undeveloped Alaska.” The first set
of criteria I’d create here would be the
same as the last recipe: select “Has
Adjustments,” then select “is false” in
the dropdown menu to its right. Then hit
the “+” icon to the right to create a new
line of criteria. Next, go to the dropdown
menu and select “Pick Flag,” then select
“is” in the dropdown to its right. Then
select “flagged” in the dropdown menu
to its right, and then click the “+” icon
again to create another line of criteria.
Select “Any Searchable Text” in the first
dropdown menu on the new line of cri-
teria. Then select “contains” in the next
dropdown, and then type “Alaska” into
the available text box. With this Smart
Collection, you’re going to want to set
Match criteria to “all” as you only want
to collect images that meet all of the con-
ditions (see Figure 6).
Setting your Match criteria to “all” is
so very important. If Match is set to “any,”
then your Smart Collection would pop-
ulate with undeveloped images whether
they are flagged or unflagged, whether
they’ve been keyworded “Alaska” or not.
It would also contain images that are
flagged and that are either developed or
undeveloped. By choosing “all,” you’re
telling Lightroom that the image in the
Smart Collection must adhere to all of
the specified criteria.Figure 4. Smart Collections can
be distinguished from regular
Collections by the presence of a
small asterisk. Only Smart Collections
have the asterisk.Figure 5. Here’s a screenshot
illustrating how I organize my Smart
Collections. I separate them from
regular Collections with Collection
Sets and then maintain hierarchies in
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