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Anonymous
April 17, 2013
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Can Lightroom sort by dimensions?

  • 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
    Participating Frequently
    November 27, 2013

    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
    Brainiac
    November 27, 2013

    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
    web-weaver
    Inspiring
    April 17, 2013

    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
    Participating Frequently
    September 7, 2013

    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
    Brainiac
    November 27, 2013

    I am collecting creative commons pictures from a variety of sources, chiefly thru flick  for an online pictorial dictionary for a nonprofit project.  as i said, larger size such as 21 mp vs 1 mp generally although not always equates to better quality. furthermore i need to crop most of the pictures i select, and again, trying to crop a .5 mp picture generally results in extreme pixelation.  in selecting the 4 best pictures for the project for each item, it would be helpful if i could start by organize the pictures by megapixels.  i dont want filtering, i want sorting, because in some cases, the smaller size picture is still the better choice.

    my purpose in responding to this thread is to point out that there are times when sorting by size makes sense.

    Obviously, if you start with the original photo and it is from a recent camera, then size can be manipulated. but if you are starting from degraded material, as in my case, then the size of the material does make a difference.


    Since the request if for sorting by megapixels, and not filtering, then I do not think Lightroom has that capability; nor am I aware of any plug-ins that allow sorting (not filtering) by megapixels.

    Rikk Flohr: Inactive
    Rikk Flohr: Inactive
    Participating Frequently
    April 17, 2013

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

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