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December 17, 2024
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Lightroom Classic Book - can I remove photos from a collection set?

  • December 17, 2024
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I created a collection set to organize photos for a book. I uploaded the finished book to Blurb and created a saved book. Can I remove the photos from the collection set and have them remain in the saved book?

 

Thank you,

Ruth Goodman

Lightroom Classic 14.0.1

mac OS Sequoia 15.1.1

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JohanElzenga
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December 17, 2024

Why would you want to do that? Collections are just lists, like a playlist in a music player. The images in a collection do not take any extra space in the catalog (except the space of the list), if that is what you think.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
lazmag1Author
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December 18, 2024
Thank you for your response. It is just a matter of cleaning up collections to get rid of what is not needed. The collection I need is for the photos that ended up in the book which are contained within the saved book. The sub collections organizing the photos are not needed.
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Rob_Cullen
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December 18, 2024

Knowing that you have a 'Saved Book Collection", Yes, you can delete photos from a Standard Collection (Not from a Set), or you can delete the entire Standard Collection that you might have used to start a new book. Consider you may want the Standard Collection for other uses (eg. Slideshow).

 

Delete the Standard Collection- ,

DO NOT Delete the Saved Book Collection-

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Ian Lyons
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December 17, 2024

@lazmag1 

 

I've reworded the title of your post so that it reflects the content.

lazmag1Author
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December 17, 2024
Thank you!
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