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Inspiring
Feb 5, 2026 7:22 PM UTC
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Smart Album Issue

When creating a Smart Album in LrD with multiple criteria, matching "All" criteria is the only option, with no option for "Any" criteria.  When looking at the online help, this is one of the steps listed to create a Smart Album:

“Choose whether to match all or any of the criteria.”

    Dan The Photo ManCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    Feb 20, 2026 6:46 AM UTC

    @CMass Thanks for the reply.  I went ahead and made a feature request!  Fingers-crossed it is implemented sooner than later.

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    MassC
    Legend
    Feb 5, 2026 11:30 PM UTC

    Hey ​@Dan The Photo Man

    Welcome to the Community! To get a better understanding, can you share step by step how you’re creating this album? Please share an screenshot that might help us. 

    ^CM

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    Inspiring
    Feb 7, 2026 5:31 PM UTC

    Sure, I am in LrD and go to Albums > Create Smart Album and the dialog box appears (see attached screenshot).  I need the smart album to match either of the criteria, but it only matches all of the criteria.  There is no option for any of the criteria, all criteria is locked in.

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    MassC
    Legend
    Feb 20, 2026 12:50 AM UTC

    Hey ​@Dan The Photo Man,  Sorry for the delay in my response. I see what you want mean. There is no option to create a boolean in a sense. I think for Lightroom Desktop you’ll need to create an idea as this feature is not currently available. However, you did mention that you were following a video tutorial. Was that for Lightroom Classic?

    I don’t see a post for this type of request yet, so please create an post for your feature request here: https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-681

    Best, 
    CM

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