Can Lightroom sort by dimensions?

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April 17, 2013
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I'd like to either use Grid view sorted by dimensions, or create a Collection based on dimensions. I can do this in Adobe Bridge, but thought Lightroom would add functionality to this. But I can't find it.

Thank you.

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photoshack

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While it is nice that everyone comes up with complex ways to do a simple task like sorting by file size criteria, I think that it is worthy of considering to actually put this in the product that we are using daily to manage our digital media. I do not want to go outside of LR to work on images; I want to do this in one place. I do not want to have plugins to do a basic simple function. I want to sort, filter on this information and then ACT upon it within the interface.

I will go back again to my use case.

I want to find all image with keyword ocean, sorted by file size because I know that my library has a combination of print prepped work, raw files, virtual copies, websized, and intermediate sized files and I want to filter on JPG >2mb but <5mb, regardless of dimensions. I want to sort them in descending order and compare within grid view and then act upon them.

All these tools mentioned as work arounds just muck up what should be very easy. Good for plugin developers and all...but really I don't get why this can't be simply another metadata used to sort like all the rest. Excusing them away with costly tools is stupid.

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dj_paige

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While it is nice that everyone comes up with complex ways to do a simple task like sorting by file size criteria, I think that it is worthy of considering to actually put this in the product that we are using daily to manage our digital media. I do not want to go outside of LR to work on images; I want to do this in one place. I do not want to have plugins to do a basic simple function.

All these tools mentioned as work arounds just muck up what should be very easy. Good for plugin developers and all...but really I don't get why this can't be simply another metadata used to sort like all the rest. Excusing them away with costly tools is stupid.

I understand your point of view, and I can see the value of this feature, but if the Lightroom developers stopped what they were doing and programmed up everyone's requested favorite feature, we wouldn't see another version of Lightroom for years. Like it or not, this feature, and many many others, has not been a priority. If you'd really like to have an impact, and potentially get this feature inside of Lightroom, you should make a formal request at http://feedback.photoshop.com/

web-weaver

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Lr 4.4 doesn't have that.

But in Lr 5 beta is a new feature: you can create Smart Collections based on Size / Dimensions.

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photoshack

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I have LR 5 and do not see this anywhere; did this not get released? If so is there some kind of how-to?

Update: ok I found in smart collection but was surprised to see I can't do this in standard sort/filter in grid view. Weird.

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dj_paige

Legend

Thanks; yes I did create a smart collection that works; would like to be able to sort in any directory by file size though, or filter within a range at any given folder. Older tools like Thumbs Plus used to do this...

I'm pretty sure LR does not sort or filter by file size.

The plug-in from Jeffrey Frield named "Data Explorer" will filter by file size.

I'm curious why you would want to sort or filter by file size.

Rikk Flohr: Inactive

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This functionality for Smart Collections was added in Lightroom 5. You can check out the Public Beta for details.

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