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Sue Anne Hodges
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April 12, 2015
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P: Date search by month or day (any year)

  • April 12, 2015
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Please add a way to search for a date by month (and day). For instance July 4 in EVERY year. Or all photos ever taken in June of any year.Right now I can search it only one year at a time. Thanks

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    February 8, 2022

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    "Search by Month was released in the December Update"

     

    ...as well as by day of month. So here's how to find photos taken on December 25 of any year:

     

     

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    February 8, 2022

    Search by Month was released in the December Update

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
      Rick Spaulding -
      Rick Spaulding -
      Legend
      December 11, 2020

      Thanks for the good idea! I like it too. I'm merging this to a thread with the same issue. Don't forget to vote for it.

      PhotoCitizen
      PhotoCitizen
      Inspiring
      December 10, 2020

      @Jerry_Syder Thanks. I have Any Filter and I tried it. Initially, I used the wrong criteria for the filter, so I didn't think it worked. But it does work. The key is to use the "Date/Time Original Day of Month (Capture)" criteria.

      I still have to repeat this 12 times (one for each month of the year) and then save each as a collection so that I can look through them. But it works well with minimal annoyance.

      Jerry Syder
      Jerry Syder
      Inspiring
      December 10, 2020

      John R. Ellis has a lovely filter(I'm not dismissing your request) that you can use in the meantime. It's called Any Filter. It can do this and much much more. Any Filter – John R. Ellis Lightroom Plugins

      PhotoCitizen
      PhotoCitizen
      Inspiring
      December 10, 2020

      I'm making a calendar and I'd like to include photos by the month they were taken. In other words, for the October page, I want to consider only photos I've taken in the month of October, no matter what year it was taken.

      I can use a Metadata filter in LR Classic to show dates, but then I have to open a year and click on October. Then I open the next year and click on October again. Since I have photos covering about 18 years, this is a bit tedious. Is there an easier way?

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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      July 6, 2018
      Great, thanks.  I installed Any Filter and it allows me to do some things I have wanted to for a long while.  I hope some of these capabilities actually get built into the Lightroom product.
      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      July 5, 2018
      See this post for plugin solutions while waiting for the built-in feature: 
      https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-date-search-by-month?topic-reply-li...
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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      July 5, 2018


      I and others would like to have additional filters for creating smart collections based on dates.  For example:

      1. Be able to find all images captured / edited in a particular month, regardless of year.
      2. Be able to find all images captured / edited in a particular date range, regardless of year (may be a partial solution for #4 below if no geo data is available).
      3. Be able to find all images captured / edited on a particular date, regardless of year (e.g., all images captured / edited on this day in history).
      4. Be able to find all images captured / edited in a particular season, which requires date and geo-reference.
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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      October 26, 2017
      Hard to believe that  Adobe doesn't provide a "Search by Month(s)" feature. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked for photographs from specific times of the year, irregardless of what year they were shot. It would be nice if I could search for all images shot in a specific month or months. Right now the only way I can do this is to buy a 3rd Party Plug-in.
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