P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

1.3K upvotes, and nearly 10 years later, there's still no movement on this. Lightroom Classic seems to be a dead end with regular Lightroom as the future.

To shape that future, everyone here should vote for 👇 this idea:

• P: Please add smart albums

"9 years later and still waiting. There must be some BIG, HARD thing about this..."

When the Lightroom cloud ecosystem (mobile, web, desktop) was announced (Lightroom Classic 7, not called Classic then), Adobe publicly announced there would be no more improvements to the sync between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Cloud.  It's not hard technically -- Adobe just decided not to invest much in Lightroom Classic except for Develop and other improvements directly related to image quality.

Currently it is apparently (feedback from Adobe helpdesk) not possible to share a subset of a collection (filtered by starts, keywords etc) in lightroom CC on mac without first haveing to create a new collection that contains only the filtered results. If you filter a collection, then click the "make public", the resulting url will still point to an album with ALL the pictures rather than the filtered ones only. The filters are powerful tools to discect large collections. To extend this functionality to sharing would be extremly helpful. 

Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to the game, so forgive me if this a basic question, but I'm not being able to sync any Smart Collections in Ligtroom Classic.

I've already created the collection, I have the sync turned ON, but I don't see the option to sync any Smart Collections. I've seen a bunch of videos on how to do this, but I can't find those settings on my software. Any suggestions?

I'm using Lightroom Classic v11 on Windows.

Thanks in advance!

I agree wholeheartedly!!!  I'm a huge user of Smart Collections and I'm rather annoyed to just now learn that SC don't sync to the cloud and\or mobile.  Very frustrated.  Nothing's ever easy.....

Yeah ... as one who has several hundreds GBs of pictures and a self-built NAS server to store them, I have absolutely zero intetest in cloudy...

On the other hand, having my own Internet-connected NAS made this particular feature request less useful 😉

I’m not saying they’ll fet rid of it. As long as people keep buying it, they have no reason to stop selling it. But they’re capitalizing on an stagnating product, delivering minimal updates (or those that are in camera raw and cross app) and refusing basic request by fear of canibalizing cloudy. Cloudy might be a good product but has some major blocking points for some users.

Maintaining 2 similar products must be expensive and nothing tells us the pain gain equation will remain beneficial to classic forever 😉

Yeah, Adobe HATES making millions on LR Classic users, they'll be getting rid of it soon! 😜

*kgilx

Indeed, the request is over 7 years old and you will never see implemented. Adobe has made it clear they won't improve the sync features in Classic. Even bugs seems to remain unsolved: sync in classic NEVER works as expected. If you want the better sync feature, you need to switch to LR Cloudy, with all it's implications. Buisness decisions, not tech and even less user oriented. Follow the cash, they said...

Thanks for the tips 🙂 I'm sure those are very wel written plugins.

Having those is a good indication it's technically possible and the non-implementation of this feature request (and many others) is just a buisness decision. It's another proof, if needed, development has switched to LR Cloudy and they barely maintain Classic alive.