Smart Album Issue

Forum|Forum|15 days ago
February 5, 2026
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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.”

Correct answer Dan The Photo Man

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

CMass

Community Manager

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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Dan The Photo ManAuthor

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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.

CMass

Community Manager

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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