P: Please add smart albums

which 3rd party plug in are you using?  thanks! 

@skizip Posts aren't merged to bury them... exactly the opposite in fact. If all of the votes for the same request are combined into a single thread, it shows that a lot of people want the same feature and it stands a better chance of being prioritized.

I just posted the same kind of question comment and an Admin immediately moved it here so that it would be buried instead of show up in the main feed of the forums, or as an additional search term. 

How about Adobe actually address some of these pretty simple requests instead of flagging them and moving them all to a thread that is several years old and clearly ignored.  

Even if for some reason they can't get around to adding these features, they could at least have the courtesy to actually address us.  

Instead of white washing your forums to preserve your image, how about you improve your products.  So infuriating to be treated like this by so called quality assurance personnel...

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. 

So frustrated to have seen so little growth in lightroom cloud.  if I can quick filter by keywords, cameras, etc. why not let us just save those filters as a smart album.  It'd be so simple! 

And while we're at it, why are filtering options so incredibly limited when there is so much metadata in each photo.  Can't even filter by date!  

Adobe is turning away more and more professionals.  I may be one of them soon.  

Smart Albums would be enormously helpful. Being able to create a Smart Album based on being a Pick, Rating, or Tag means we can created auto-filtering albums for our selects, images we want to submit to Stock, or images we want to put on our Portfolio Site.

It would need three key features:

1. be based on saved search criteria
2. be able to be filtered to target one or a subset of albums
3. be able to be referenced as a source in Stock, Portfolio and Spark

This thread is being merged into an authoritative thread for better tracking and response. 

New to the software.  Be nice if you could save searches, perhaps in the sidebar underneath the albums.  I find myself running the same searches repeatedly and feel like I must be missing something but apparently not.    

Happy this has been merged would still be nice to hear from Adobe if this is expected behaviour 

Lightroom search 

Hi

Can someone explain to me how multiple search terms / filters work? 

It seems like multiple filters of a type are treated as OR where as filters of different types are AND.

Except for search terms which are always AND? 

This creates some unintuitive behaviour (IMO) 

So for example If I search for "Tree" "Car" I see pictures that match the intersection of Tree and Car (in any Sensi Keywords, tagged keywords, and I'll assume any other indexed fields) 

Okay, now if I Filter by location or locations what I get is results matching the following 

"Tree" && "Car" && ( Location: "India" || Location: "England") 

If I now filter by camera or cameras I get results matching the following

"Tree" && "Car" && ( Location: "India" || Location: "England") && ( Camera: "<camera a>" || Camera: "<camera b>")

This I can understand even though its counter intuitive, it does get odd when a search term (not a filter) is the name of a person / keyword.

So firstly have I understood correctly?

Now some more confusion, again an example

Person:A Person:B == Person:A || Person:B 

Where as "A" Person:B == Person:A && Person:B  (assuming A doesn't match other tags else be becomes (Person:A || keyword:A) && Person:B)

This means you can't search for Photos with 2 people in unless you use a Text Search and a Person Filter.

i.e "Mary" person:Bob results in and AND but Person:Mary Person:Bob results in an OR.

But if I use “Mary” “Bob” as a text search, I get nothing.

Both “Mary” and “Bob” will return results individually. 

So I am obviously missing some detail on how this does / doesn’t work.

Now you can do a 3 person Search using the following

Start in a person via the people view, (i.e. Mary)
Then search for “Bob” this gives you photos with Mary and Bob in, then filter by “Jane” and you only see Photos of Mary , Bob & Jane.

But 3 is your limit.

I ideally would like the ability to search for multiple people or other terms (but I could live with people to start) simply by writing a query.

I can do this with temp albums  but that shouldn’t be needed.
I’d really like a not operator as well.
i.e Mary & Jane but not Bob

Note this is possible in classic via a search or Smart collection (Oh I wish Lightroom had Smart Albums)