ORGANISING PHOTOS WITH COLLECTIONS
5 You can nest groups of collections inside one another by
creating a Collection Set. Once you’ve created a set (our
example here is called Flowers), you can create further sets
or collections within it and move collections into the set by
dragging and dropping in the Collections sidebar tab. This way
you can build-up a useful collection structure.
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You can add more photos to an existing collection by
dragging them from the Grid view onto the appropriate
collection in the sidebar. You can select several photos at once
and drag the whole stack over. Note that you have to click on
the thumbnail, not on the surrounding box, and drop them over
the collection name, not the folder icon.
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You can share Collections between the Lightroom
desktop application and the mobile apps for Android or
iOS. If you add photos to collections on one device, they will
be automatically synchronised between all your devices. We’ll
cover this in more detail when we look at the Lightroom Mobile
app in a later chapter.7 To remove a photo from a collection, simply right-click on
the thumbnail and select Remove from Collection from
the pop-up menu. Note that you can only remove a photo from
within the actual Collection of which it is a part and not from any
Collection Set within which it is nested. Removing a photo does
not delete it from your Library.
10 Lightroom can automatically build Smart Collections for
you. Click on the plus sign on the Collections tab title bar
and select Create Smart Collection. You can set up multiple
rules for selection, such as rating, caption text, image size etc.
and apply them to instantly build a collection. In all other ways
a Smart Collection behaves exactly like any other.8 You can delete a collection by either right-clicking on it in
the Collections tab and selecting Delete from the pop-up
menu or by highlighting the collection and clicking on the minus
sign button on the Collections tab title bar. Either way, doing so
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