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Participating Frequently
Dec 19, 2017 8:04 PM UTC
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P: Please add smart albums

I would love to be able to create smart albums (aka smart collections) in the all-new Lightroom CC. Basically, a folder that contains a set of photos based on metadata information and updates automatically. The feature set should ideally contain all the options that exist in Lightroom Classic for smart collections. Thanks!

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Participant
Jan 27, 2022 6:23 PM UTC

Smart albums that can be shared too is the only missing feautre for me. However, i hope that the current filter would be a little bit better; for example, photos with no tags!

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Participant
Dec 30, 2021 6:12 AM UTC

Lightroom is amazing but could be SO much better with the implementation of Simple Smart Albums.  They would be easy to setup with built-in “filters” that will add photos based on criteria.  Maybe add more criteria as well like color coding similar to Apple Products.

 

Aperture had this, as well as color coding, and it made my photography organization so easy and fluid; before Apple killed the application.

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Participant
Dec 23, 2021 1:14 PM UTC

Wow... I thought I was getting old not being able to figure out how to create "dynamic albums"/"smart folders" based on things like rating. Turns out this basic basic feature is still missing after a half decade?! I'm baffled

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Geewai
Participant
Oct 29, 2021 2:13 AM UTC

Well, it's almost 2022, 5 years after the original OP made this post. Still no smart album in lightroom CC

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Participant
Oct 7, 2021 10:13 AM UTC

technically that's easy but the benefit for us users would be insane, so please adobe team: DO IT 😉 

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Spartan1of300
Participating Frequently
Aug 31, 2021 6:47 PM UTC

This seems like a really fundamental feature in my eyes. I know we can go to LrC for all the organizational tools we could ever want but shouldn't there be some middle ground here, between everything in LrC and basically nothing in Lr?

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mathieud65778067
Participating Frequently
Aug 10, 2021 7:34 PM UTC

One great feature to add to Lightroom CC would be DYNAMIC ALBUMS (like the dynamic playlists in iTunes):

You create an album with several criteria, like keywords, people, or location.

And the folder gets updated automatically when new photos are added to Lightroom, or new keywords are added on a photo. So you don't need to add the photos to the album or folder manually.

In effect, the album would be a bit like a saved search.

Examples: your family, a group of friend, a specific location where you come back regularly, a specific topic you like (Sports)....

Many thanks

Kind regards

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Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
Jul 29, 2021 6:30 PM UTC

Any baby step forward would be nice. 🙂

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Known Participant
Jul 28, 2021 10:55 PM UTC

At the very least you could begin with a saved search capability, which we could save as a dynamic album. Then you could add logic as in smart folders. Even this small step will make wonders and I don't envision too much effort on it. 

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Known Participant
Jul 28, 2021 12:26 PM UTC

While I find extremely useful the current pivots and filters to look for images in LR Cloud, I'd appreciate the capability to save commonly used searches, which could give place to smart albums where you filter for specific dates, people, location, keywords, camera, etc. I end up creating a tedious amount of albums for this purpose that I have to manually keep updating (e.g. foodie, a certain place, birthdays, etc). 

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