Organising Photos
with Collections
If you’ve been using a digital camera for some years, you probably
have thousands of photos stored by now. Lightroom is all about
keeping those images organised and accessible, and one great way
to do that is by using Collections.
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Quick Collections are a temporary method of quickly
organising a group of photos that you want to be able to
find easily. In this example, we’ve got a series of macro close up
photos of flowers and we want to group all the photos of certain
colours of flower. First, find the folder containing the photos in
the Folders sidebar tab.3
You can see that photos are added to the Quick Collection
and marked with a small circle in the upper right corner of
the thumbnail. If there are any additional photographs that you
want to add to the Quick Collection, such as this shot of some
tulips, you can either use the menu or simply click on the position
of the circle.2 Go through your photos and use CTRL-click to select all
the photos that you want to add to the Quick Collection,
in this case all the shots of flowers that are red, orange and
yellow. Once you’ve highlighted a few, right-click on any of the
selected shots and select Add to Quick Collection from the
menu that appears.4 You can save your Quick Collection as a permanent
collection by right-clicking on the Quick Collections +
and selecting Save Quick Collection. Type in a name for your
collection and if you want to clear the Quick Collection at the
same time, check the box for that option. You’ll find your new
Collection in the Collections tab.48
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