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KevinMByers
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December 11, 2017
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Is there a way to add subcollectiond in Bridge?

  • December 11, 2017
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Hey all,

I'm currently doing mundane tasks, so my brain is in rapid fire mode right now but...I'm away from my machine so I can't play around and figured I'd ask a few questions and start a discussion.

Playing with my workflow I recently discovered "Collections" in bridge. I love it because I can sort images in separate folders the second I pull them from my camera while still keeping them in separate folders and not having to create a wildly intricate shortcut tree in Win explorer.

So..my question: is there a way to create primary collections and then subcollections?

I.e.:

Live Music

— Bands

—— Band A

—— Band B

—— Band C

—Venue

—— Venue A

—— Venue B

—— Venue C

I know you can do something like this is Lightroom, but I'm still learning in Lightroom and am not looking to moving over completely until we can batch export to PNG. (If we can with the latest update PLEASE let me know).

Also wondering if there's a way to display images that belong to multiple collections.

I.e.

All images belonging to: Live Music, Venue A, Band C, Year X

And no others.

Does that make any sense?

As usual: any and all responses are GREATLY appreciated!

Thx

K

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    Correct answer Stephen Marsh

    If you are using keywords and other metadata, then look into Smart Collections… If you are not using metadata, then why not!?

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    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 12, 2017

    If you are using keywords and other metadata, then look into Smart Collections… If you are not using metadata, then why not!?

    KevinMByers
    Known Participant
    December 12, 2017

    The answer to both of my questions is a RESOUNDING no...

    But to answer your question: I'm not using Metadata tags because I kind of got thrown into the photography thing. I bought the camera for video, initially, and realized I was actually quite proficient with it...especially in the live music setting.

    I ran into another problem, which I'm about to look into and that is that Bridge can't assign XMP data to CR2 files... so I'll have to look into that.

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 12, 2017

    Adobe does not believe in touching the original raw files… So depending on your ACR settings in Bridge, you will either be writing metadata to XMP sidecar files or into the Camera Raw database (I personally prefer sidecar files).