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April 8, 2014
Not Prioritized

P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

  • April 8, 2014
  • 342 replies
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Collection synching / Lightroom Mobile is a great addition to Lightroom 5.4. Please extend this functionality to Smart Collections as well.

342 replies

Known Participant
October 27, 2017


smart albums please ! they are essential to my workflow! also the ability to view photos not in albums. Since coming from "classic" and a photo being stored in and actual folder, now they are virtual which is fine but I need to know which photos did not make it in an album. I am very careful to import photos into albums but seeing some did not make it in makes me feel very lost. 
georgew62932219
Participating Frequently
October 27, 2017


For Lightroom CC to be a valid option, it will need the ability to create criteria based Smart Albums (like Smart Collections in LR Classic), as well as the ability to compare photos side by side (like the Compare and Survey modes in LR Classic). Add these and I'm in. Without these the new app is a non starter.
Participating Frequently
October 27, 2017


This is a real game-changer for work-flow. I don't understand how anyone can survive without smart collections and have an efficient and effective wok-flow - and it's missing from Lightroom CC.
For example, when I bulk rename images to include primary keyword and location (and I have many more examples) I have smart collections for images with incomplete keywording, incomplete location data, and for those which are complete but which have yet to be renamed. Having to do all that by hand would add hours to my workflow. So do you agree that smart collections (or albums) should make it across to CC?
johnrellis
Legend
October 22, 2017
Victoria Bampton (Lightroom Queen) wrote recently, "no new sync functionality will be added to Classic".  She's well-plugged-in to Adobe, so I think that bodes ill for syncing of LR Classic smart collections with LR CC / Mobile.
Participating Frequently
October 22, 2017


Allowing smart collections to exist in the cloud has been the most-voted for feature request in the Lr-forums. So far, it's been blatantly ignored by Adobe. However, I believe it should be much easier to implement now that Adobe has upgraded the Lr-Cloud. 

Adobe, please refer to the link below for the most requested idea for Lr in the last 4 years. 
Thank you.

Link to previous idea request: 
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_should_be_able_to_sync_smart_collec...
johnrellis
Legend
October 18, 2017
Lightroom Queen Victoria Bampton wrote, "The [new] mobile apps continue to sync with Lightroom Classic, as they always have done, but no new cloud features will be added to Lightroom Classic, so keywords and collection sets don’t sync with Lightroom Classic."

She has long had an inside line to LR product developers and has a solid authoritative reputation, so I think this indicates that it's unlikely syncing smart collections between Classic and Mobile will ever be added.

As a  workaround, you can use the Any Source plugin to sync smart collections with regular collections and then sync those regular collections to LR Mobile.
anothertal3
Inspiring
October 18, 2017
After reading about the new Lightroom CC I don't think that this feature will be implemented into Lightroom Classic anytime soon. Same for keyword synchronization.
Participant
October 1, 2017
Add my YES vote!  I can't believe it doesn't already do this!
jeffneate
Participant
August 24, 2017
Me too. Would love this feature.
Inspiring
August 16, 2017
+1, I'd also like to see this feature added.

(LOL. Adobe, come on!! You should sync the entire library to mobile and get it over with!!)