I would love to be able to create smart albums (aka smart collections) in the all-new Lightroom CC. Basically, a folder that contains a set of photos based on metadata information and updates automatically. The feature set should ideally contain all the options that exist in Lightroom Classic for smart collections. Thanks!
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Can someone explain to me how multiple search terms / filters work?
It seems like multiple filters of a type are treated as OR where as filters of different types are AND.
Except for search terms which are always AND?
This creates some unintuitive behaviour (IMO)
So for example If I search for "Tree" "Car" I see pictures that match the intersection of Tree and Car (in any Sensi Keywords, tagged keywords, and I'll assume any other indexed fields)
Okay, now if I Filter by location or locations what I get is results matching the following
This I can understand even though its counter intuitive, it does get odd when a search term (not a filter) is the name of a person / keyword.
So firstly have I understood correctly?
Now some more confusion, again an example
Person:A Person:B == Person:A || Person:B
Where as "A" Person:B == Person:A && Person:B (assuming A doesn't match other tags else be becomes (Person:A || keyword:A) && Person:B)
This means you can't search for Photos with 2 people in unless you use a Text Search and a Person Filter.
i.e "Mary" person:Bob results in and AND but Person:Mary Person:Bob results in an OR.
But if I use “Mary” “Bob” as a text search, I get nothing.
Both “Mary” and “Bob” will return results individually.
So I am obviously missing some detail on how this does / doesn’t work.
Now you can do a 3 person Search using the following
Start in a person via the people view, (i.e. Mary) Then search for “Bob” this gives you photos with Mary and Bob in, then filter by “Jane” and you only see Photos of Mary , Bob & Jane.
But 3 is your limit.
I ideally would like the ability to search for multiple people or other terms (but I could live with people to start) simply by writing a query.
I can do this with temp albums but that shouldn’t be needed. I’d really like a not operator as well. i.e Mary & Jane but not Bob
Note this is possible in classic via a search or Smart collection (Oh I wish Lightroom had Smart Albums)
New to the software. Be nice if you could save searches, perhaps in the sidebar underneath the albums. I find myself running the same searches repeatedly and feel like I must be missing something but apparently not.
Smart Albums would be enormously helpful. Being able to create a Smart Album based on being a Pick, Rating, or Tag means we can created auto-filtering albums for our selects, images we want to submit to Stock, or images we want to put on our Portfolio Site.
It would need three key features:
be based on saved search criteria
be able to be filtered to target one or a subset of albums
be able to be referenced as a source in Stock, Portfolio and Spark
So frustrated to have seen so little growth in lightroom cloud. if I can quick filter by keywords, cameras, etc. why not let us just save those filters as a smart album. It'd be so simple!
And while we're at it, why are filtering options so incredibly limited when there is so much metadata in each photo. Can't even filter by date!
Adobe is turning away more and more professionals. I may be one of them soon.
I just posted the same kind of question comment and an Admin immediately moved it here so that it would be buried instead of show up in the main feed of the forums, or as an additional search term.
How about Adobe actually address some of these pretty simple requests instead of flagging them and moving them all to a thread that is several years old and clearly ignored.
Even if for some reason they can't get around to adding these features, they could at least have the courtesy to actually address us.
Instead of white washing your forums to preserve your image, how about you improve your products. So infuriating to be treated like this by so called quality assurance personnel...
@skizip Posts aren't merged to bury them... exactly the opposite in fact. If all of the votes for the same request are combined into a single thread, it shows that a lot of people want the same feature and it stands a better chance of being prioritized.
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that's not sync. that's just the ability to manually update. a subtle but very big difference as one requires an entire 2nd step by the user. no ability to scale, no thought for the future.
Since I've moved a lot of photos to Adobe Lightroom (from Lightroom CC, Photos (Apple), Flickr, Dropbox. I really like it that I now have all my photos in 1 place, easily accessible everywhere.
BUT what I miss the most is the ability to make smartselections (like in Lightroom CC). AND an easy way to remove duplicates since I've got a lot of them. With Lightroom CC this was easily doable with plugins but I can't find any for Lightroom.
Are there any plans to add such features, or does anyone know how to solve this?
While I find extremely useful the current pivots and filters to look for images in LR Cloud, I'd appreciate the capability to save commonly used searches, which could give place to smart albums where you filter for specific dates, people, location, keywords, camera, etc. I end up creating a tedious amount of albums for this purpose that I have to manually keep updating (e.g. foodie, a certain place, birthdays, etc).
At the very least you could begin with a saved search capability, which we could save as a dynamic album. Then you could add logic as in smart folders. Even this small step will make wonders and I don't envision too much effort on it.
One great feature to add to Lightroom CC would be DYNAMIC ALBUMS (like the dynamic playlists in iTunes):
You create an album with several criteria, like keywords, people, or location.
And the folder gets updated automatically when new photos are added to Lightroom, or new keywords are added on a photo. So you don't need to add the photos to the album or folder manually.
In effect, the album would be a bit like a saved search.
Examples: your family, a group of friend, a specific location where you come back regularly, a specific topic you like (Sports)....
This seems like a really fundamental feature in my eyes. I know we can go to LrC for all the organizational tools we could ever want but shouldn't there be some middle ground here, between everything in LrC and basically nothing in Lr?
Wow... I thought I was getting old not being able to figure out how to create "dynamic albums"/"smart folders" based on things like rating. Turns out this basic basic feature is still missing after a half decade?! I'm baffled
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