Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 123)

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Organizing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
3 In the Library or Develop module, choose Photo > Remove From Quick Collection. In the Slideshow, Print, or Web
modules, choose Edit > Remove From Quick Collection.
From any module, select the photo and press the B key. Or move the pointer over a thumbnail image and click the
circle in its upper-right corner.
Convert the Quick Collection to a collection
A Quick Collection can be saved as a collection. You have the option of clearing the Quick Collection after saving it.
1 In any module, choose File > Save Quick Collection.
2 In the Save Quick Collection dialog box, type a name in the Collection Name box.
3 Specify one of the following actions:
• Select Clear Quick Collection After Saving to clear the Quick Collection after it’s saved as a collection.
• Deselect Clear Quick Collection After Saving to preserve the Quick Collection after it’s saved as a collection.
4 Click Save.
Work with smart collections
A smart collection is a collection based on metadata criteria that you specify. Smart collections automatically include
all photos that meet the criteria. You don’t manually add or remove photos from a smart collection.
Lightroom includes a set of five default smart collections: Colored Red, Five Stars, Past Month, Recently Modified, and
Without Keywords.
Create a smart collection
1 In the Library module, do one of the following:
• Choose Library > New Smart Collection.
• Click the Plus icon (+) in the Collections panel and choose Create Smart Collection.
2 In the Create Smart Collection dialog box, type a name for your smart collection.
3 If you want the smart collection to be part of an existing set, choose the set from the Set menu. Otherwise, choose
None.
4 Specify the rules for the smart collection by choosing options from the pop-up menus.
Note: The rules used to define searchable text conditions for smart collections are the same as the rules used to search
for text with the Library Filter bar. For definitions, see
Search for photos using the Text filter .
5 (Optional) Click the Plus icon (+) to add additional criteria. Click the Minus icon (-) to remove criteria.
6 (Optional) Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Plus icon (+) to open nested options that let you
refine criteria.
7 Choose to match all or any of the criteria from the Match menu.
8 Click Create.
Lightroom adds the smart collection to the Collections panel and adds all the photos in the catalog that meet the
specified rules. Smart collections have a photo-print icon with a gear in the lower-right corner
.