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What are your best tips, tricks or formulas for Lightroom's Smart Collections?
I use a few Smart Collections in Lightroom to automatically let me see things like all of my finished HDR images, sets of images uploaded to SmugMug or Flickr, and the like, but I'm curious what other ...
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How can I create a smart collection that checks for only *one* given keyword in Lightroom 3?
I think I know my Lightroom pretty well, but I couldn't find a way to create a smart collection that returns photos containing only one given keyword. Just one. Say, all photos containing only the ...
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Is there a way to sort Lightroom images by 'edit' status?
Usually my workflow involves 'picking/flagging' photos to edit and leaving the rest alone (RAW files that is). However, sometimes I jump right in and start editing before rating/picking. In that ...
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Does the number of smart collections affect Lightroom's performance?
While mucking around in Lightroom today and setting up some smart collections, I wondered if having a large number of smart collections might negatively impact performance? I'm thinking that ...
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In LR smart-collections, what is the difference between 'contains', 'contains all' and 'contains the words'?
When I create a smart-collection in Lightroom 4(.2rc) and select keywords to filter against, I got three different 'contains' to select from:
contains
contains all
contains the words
I wonder what ...
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Why doesn't my Lightroom smart photoset have any pictures in it?
I've created a "Smart Photoset" in Lightroom to publish photos to Flickr, configured to match all of the following rules:
Collection contains "Nepal"
Pick Flag is flagged
I assumed, possibly ...
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How can I create a smart collection that checks for absence of values in Lightroom 2?
I started recently supplying Location metadata to my images (not geolocation, I do that in a few cases but hardly for all of them) and I thought »Hey, a smart collection that contains all images ...
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In Lightroom how can I see all photos that have been modified after they were exported
I am using Adobe Lightroom 4 and shoot RAW+JPG. I normally post process all my images and then bulk export them back out to JPG when done overwriting the original JPGs but sometimes I might forget to ...
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Excluding nested keywords from smart collection
I like to keep track of where I take a picture, and of course, what is in the picture. Often the two are not the same: I might be on top of a mountain, taking a picture of another peak.
I have the ...
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Smart collection with Previous Import
I'm looking for a way to create a Smart Collection in Lightroom 3 that displays photos that are found in Previous Import and don't have a keyword. The latter part is not a problem, but I can't figure ...
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Can the Mac version of Adobe Lightroom 3 automatically create smart-collections for camera, lenses, date, etc.?
I just installed Lightroom 3 on my Mac when I discovered that the license I had for it was valid for both Mac and Windows.
I seem to remember, but could be wrong, that Lightroom could/would create ...
