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areohbee
areohbee
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August 4, 2011
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P: Lock lib-filtered and smart-collected contents temporarily so photos don't disappear...

  • August 4, 2011
  • 21 replies
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I often round up photos to work on using the library filter or a smart collection. Unfortunately, as soon as I start working on them, they often disappear - you know what I'm talking about, right? (criteria that was holding the photo(s) gets cleared).

How about a lock button, such that the contents of the filtered list or smart collection won't change until unlocked.

(at a minimum, add "Empty Collection" to context menu, since my present workaround is to copy from smart collection to dumb (temp/to-do) collection. But, I often want to clear the to-do collection for a new round, without selecting it and thus losing my present selection...)

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    Fabio37095516xyqy
    Participant
    May 1, 2024

    I started using Lightroom on the iPad and only recently I installed the Classic version on my laptop. One of the things I like the most about the iPad version is that I can filter my photos using the "Not Edited" filter and then I can edit only the ones I hadn't edit yet. And only after I start/finish editing them I go to the next photo and that last one I edited "disappears". I think this is an amazing feature because it helps me to focus only on the ones I didn't edit. 
    I am very frustrated with Lightroom Classic because as soon as I start editing a picture (after I applied the "not edited"-filter), the picture "disappears" immediately. I wish they would let me edit the picture completely and it should disappear only after I go to the next picture (like the iPad version). 

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    May 1, 2024

    Create a Smart Collection with the following:

    Select Rule "Has Edits"

    And select "Is False"

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    November 28, 2020

    Michael, many people use the Quick Collection or create a temp collection to capture the results of a smart-collection search so they don't change underneath you as you work.  After clicking the smart collection, right-click the Quick Collection and do Clear Quick Collection (see the menu for its shortcut) and then type "b".

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    November 28, 2020

    What are the rules you assigned to the smaart collection?

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    COBill
    Known Participant
    November 27, 2020

    Not a solution but a suggestion: use a keyword. Usually I'm working on several projects so I just give each one its own keyword and then a single click opens them all in the library module. 

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    November 27, 2020

    I'm using Windows Lightroom Classic version release 10.0.  When I go to edit a jpeg or raw file in a smart collection and use auto adjust, it is automatically removed from the collection before I can do anything or see what's done.  I am left with no selected photo.  I did a workaround by giving them all a temp tag and recreating the criteria for the collection, but it would be a lot easier if it was smart enough not to update the collection immediately.

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 23, 2019
    You don’t need a button. There are better ways to solve this. Like I said in your original thread, the way Apple Aperture worked is ideal. It will never remove an image from a smart collection (smart album in Aperture) as long as that image is selected. Only when you move to the next image, the previous one may disappear because it no longer fits the criteria.
    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    rpengale
    rpengale
    Participating Frequently
    June 23, 2019
    Agreed. When I'm working on an image in the Develop module, Adobe should not take it from me. I shouldn't need to perform extra steps to place it into some special collection or mark it in some special way before I start developing it. When I decide to quit the develop module, then, if I have used some selection criteria to limit the Library module list, you can update the list appropriately. There is no rational reason to take it and hide it from me before I am done with it.
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    Marsje78
    Participant
    June 23, 2019
    Thank you for merging me in to this one. 
    But to be clear. I don't need a lock button. 
    I just want the Delevop module not to losse the focus of the image i'm working on if it drops from a smart collection in de background.

    (something like: you are working om something on the work floor and the dude from stocks rearranges the todo racks. So he picks up the thing you are working on and places it back to the general stock rack and you have to pick it up again because the stock dude rearranged the todo rack?)
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    Marsje78
    Participant
    June 21, 2019


    If you have a smart collection with:

    "Has adjustments" = "false" 
    "Rating" => 1 star or "Picked" = "flagged"

    Then you have all the images selected by culling but don't have any adjustments yet.
    When I select one of those images and go to develop and make an adjustment it drops out of the smart collection as expected. But also the develop window losses the image before it is finished.

    And yes i can add the images to a non smart collection first but it can't be right that Develop losses the image because it drops from a smart collection.....
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