Editing a Smart Collection

Is it possible to edit a smart collection after you initially create it?  Or is it something you simply have to create all over again if you want to add a search parameter to it?
I have created 132 smart collections for a specific event.  One for each scene in a feature.  The main data that I used for each collection was simply the scene number that I listed in the meta data. Is there a way that I can edit this information?  For example, say that I have a song that I plan on playing in 4 different scenes.  How can I add that song to the smart collection? 
I keep seeing and hearing about how smart collections are replacing Bins and maybe because I'm used to Bins I'm having a hard time adjusting.  Any thoughts, articles, tutorials on how I should be working with this would be much appreciated. 

Just double click the smart collection to open the filter window. You can change the parameters there.

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  • Can you edit a Smart Collection's criteria?

    i have a Smart Collection which captures images within a specified date range.  I need to extend the date range but can't see a way of editing the Smart Collection criteria.  Can this be done?
    Thxs
    Colin

    Duh!!!!  I was right clicking on the ordinary collection (similar name) below the one I really wanted to modify.
    Thxs
    Colin

  • Smart Collection gymnastics

    Who finds Smart Collections to behave in a most peculiar fashion? They certainly do when dealing with collections.
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    Now I edit the smart collection: "Match all; Collection contains all Jewellery brochure; Pick Flag is flagged" and expect all flagged images in the "Jewellery brochure" collection to be in the smart collection. Instead, no images appear in the smart collection. This is unexpected behaviour.
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    >Pick and Reject flags are local, not global.
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  • Smart collection drop down does not include keywords

    I must have gotten this right once, because I have a smart collection whose only condition is a keyword, which is at the top of the drop down for that collection.  Likewise there is a default smart collection that LR must have created, which is called "without keywords" and whose one condition is that keywords are empty.  However,  every time I try to create a new smart collection, the criteria drop down starts with rating, followed by pick flag, label color, label text, down to the final criteria, "any searchable text" which I understand to be different from keywords, because there is a criteria called keywords.  The same is true of attempts to edit existing smart collections.  Where did my criteria by keywords go?

    That allows you to share the saved criteria to a different catalog or to a catalog on another machine.
    Here is a comprehensive help document:
    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WSC9EBC412-9DBB-4a3e-9ABD-4BF0C12CFF0F.html

  • When editing an image in ps from a lr 4.2 smart collections image not shown back in smart collection

    Hi all,
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    Has anyone notice that as well??
    Forgot to mention that my parent folder with files is a collection created with virtual copies of seleveted files. If i edit in Photoshop directly threw this virtual copies collection then the files appears in smart collections as well. but if i edit in PS directly from smart collections then files dont appear into smart collections neither at the virtual copies collection!!

    "obviously you use virtual copies when creating those collections" - why? It seems to me that this just increases the number of images in your Library for no benefit, unless you want to independently edit  the two image versions, one inside the Event collection and one outside the collection. If you ever wanted to see an unedited version of a particular image, LR retains the history (and before/after view) needed to show that, within the single thumbnail.
    It is not necessary to make a Smart Collection in order to show only picked images from a particular event. You can use a Filter to show just the picked images and hide the rest. That means you can work inside the collection, and that means that when you edit an image to PS, the new LR version WILL inherit the collection membership as well as the Pick status, and therefore will immediately show next to the image it is based on.
    I think this is going to be simpler and easier - BTW you don't have to go back to Library Grid view in order to apply filters, only in order to configure them in the first place. By saving Filter presets with a name, you can then select between these directly [from the menu at the right end of the Filmstrip] while you work, even in Develop- for example, "no filter", "picked", "unpicked", "rated two or more", whatever you want. Also you can switch between the recently-viewed collections and folders [from a menu when you click on the image details text toward the left end of the Filmstrip], to change the underlying content of the Filmstrip, to which you are applying these filters.
    By "using selection criteria other than membership in a manual collection", I just meant: a special keyword, or a particular folder, or some combination of such things. But if you prefer to put images into a Collection, you can just use that directly and IMO you don't need the SC.
    I personally like to have some kind of sufficiently identifying keywords on the image anyway, so that Exported copies will also show this information automatically... since an exported image will not reveal what collection its master image belonged to, that classification alone is not enough IMO.

  • Smart Collection & Edit History

    Is there a work around to include various states of the edit history in the smart collection. Say for example, I want to create a smart collection to contain all of my exported to Hard Drive images.
    I'm testing out Lr/Gmail plugin and seeing that there is a field where you can create a smart collection with the option of Lr/Gmail = true/false. That mean there is a way to add extra option into smart collection. Do you know any plugin out there that can do this? Thank you in advance.

    That plug-in creates a custom field and populates it. There's no way to query the History steps through Lightroom's UI or through a plug-in. One lives in hope.

  • Smart collection. Get photos out to edit and manipulate

    My photos from hard drive are in the smart collection, but I cannot edit or manipulate any of these photos. What do I do?

    What steps have you tried? What happens when you try?

  • Adobe Bridge CC Smart Collections are not displaying all images in the folder

    I'm having an issue with Bridge CC were I setup a smart collection to monitor my new photos. The folder contains over 300 photos, but is only displaying 160. The only condition I set is to have a minium file size of 10kb, so it should bring in all files since most are over 4mb. At first I thought it was a problem with the files themselves (permissions or something) but if I open the folder in bridge it easily displays all of the images easily. Any ideas?

    I'm having an issue with Bridge CC were I setup a smart collection to monitor my new photos.
    You might want to describe this workflow a bit more. Do you create this from an existing folder or are you adding new photo's?
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  • I would like to see a "user order" sort option for Smart Collections

    I use LR to set up Collections to use for web output and typically use key wording to organize which photos will be included in any web gallery. Right now I have to make that into a regular collection so I can rearrange the collection to appear the way I want to present things. I would prefer to be able to utilize Smart Collections so any photos I want to add will be included automatically when I set up the proper keywords. New additions should be at the end of the current order and the user should be able to move that around in the presentation order as desired.

    I absolutely agree. I used a similar function in Aperature all the time. It was the main reason I originally chose Aperature over LightRoom till Lightroom came out with the latest edition that included Smart Collections, and was I disappointed to find that it wasn't as powerful as Aperature's Smart Folders options.
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  • When developing an image from a smart collection "has no adjustments" it gets immediately deselected

    I am wondering if this could really be the intended LR behaviour?
    I start from a smart collection, one of the criteria is "has no adjustments".
    Ok, as soon as I move the first slider in develop module, it no longer matches that criterion.
    But that should be no reason for LR to force me to immediately stop the develop edits on the selected image.
    It immediately unselects, and I stay in Develop module with a grey window and the message "no image selected". (It does not move on to the next image, which still matches the criterion.)
    I would expect that when I return to Library module, it would return to the same smart collection where I started, but I would not find my last developed images there, as they no longer match the criterion.
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    My expectation would be that I  have this selection fixed to work on in Develop module. Similar to when I select any images from survey view and go to Develop module.
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    Start from the smart collection, ctrl a to select all, then arbitrarily click on another collection withput this criterion - selection stays fixed - then move over to Develop module.
    This is LR4.1 on Win7.
    Definitely my functional specification would be: never take off an image from Develop unless the user moves on to another image.
    So ignore from where an image was picked.
    Would you consider this a bug? Or a "feature"?
    Do you see the same in LR4.2 or 4.3RC? Behaviour on a Mac?
    Cornelia

    There is a feature request that has been around for a long time to be able to "lock" the contents of a smart collection so you can work on the photos in it, before "releasing" it for recomputed contents.
    My workaround is to copy from smart collection to dumb (I encountered this so often that I created a 1-keystroke plugin mini-feature to help). Before that I actually used a private keyword whose presence was enough to hold a photo in a smart collection (set the keyword to work on photos, clear the keyword to release them). Then as long as you add that keyword as criteria to every smart collection you may edit in, and add the keyword to every photo in the collection that you may work on... - yuck.

  • Question regarding stacks, searches and smart collections

    Apologies if this is considered a 'basic' question - but I hope that someone can help me.
    I'm currently in the process of upgrading/migrating a reasonably large Photoshop Elements 6 catalog where I've made extensive use of hierarchical folder structures, keywords and star ratings to quickly locate photos using a range a different techniques.I've successfully upgrade/migrated the Photoshope Elements catalog into Lightroom 3 and as part of the verification that everything has come across OK - I've done some comparisons of catalog searches in Elements and Lightroom and seem to be getting some strange results which I'm not sure if this is simply how things work or if I'm doing something wrong. I think part of the issue is caused by the fact that Elements always does destructive edits - so I never edited original photos in Elements so made extensive use of copied photos and stacks - but this didn't seem to cause any issues as Elements seem to keep things straight.
    In Elements, the result of a query or Smart Collection might return 18 stacks of photos (with most of the stacks containing multiple photos) - but for most purposes Elements simply treated this as 18 seperate photos and simply ignored all of the photos under the top of the stacks. 
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    Also, on a slightly related issue - I've noticed that keywords with spaces (or other special characters) seem to cause issues for Lightroom - while Elements seems to cope with these OK. From the reading I've done it looks like one of the most common suggestions is to simply remove the spaces (..etc.) in the keywords - is that what most people would recommend??
    Any help, advice or other suggestions would be appreciated.
    Kind Regards .... Jerry

    I'm currently in the process of upgrading/migrating a reasonably large Photoshop Elements 6 catalog where I've made extensive use of hierarchical folder structures, keywords and star ratings to quickly locate photos using a range a different techniques
    Please tell us EXACTLY the steps you are using to move your PSE catalog to Lightroom.
    However, if I put the same search criteria into a Lightroom Smart Collection - it retrives and displays ALL of the photos in the 18 stacks (so it displays 2-3 times more photos) and I can't seem to find a way to get the Smart Collection to honour these stacks. I know that I could probably alter each of my photo stacks and change the rating or keyword of all of the photos under the top of the stack - but trust me this is a huge amount of work!!
    I believe this is how Lightroom was designed to work. Smart collections don't recognize that some photos are at the bottom of the stack.
    Also, on a slightly related issue - I've noticed that keywords with spaces (or other special characters) seem to cause issues for Lightroom - while Elements seems to cope with these OK. From the reading I've done it looks like one of the most common suggestions is to simply remove the spaces (..etc.) in the keywords - is that what most people would recommend??
    I have no trouble whatsoever using keywords that have spaces in them. I have keywords that are "New York", "New Jersey", "Union Pacific Railroad", etc. Special characters, such as a comma, will probably cause trouble. Exactly what are you doing where spaces in keywords are not working properly?

  • Smart Collections Not-so-smart?

    I have recently started using smart collections to gather various pictures I have taken of works of art.  I have mutliple shots of the same art works, and I want to see all the shots at once in order to delete some and edit others.  There are several hundred files in the collection.  But each time I make any change to a file (edit or delete it), the entire collection must be re-built (perhaps just re-indexed, but, the panel goes blank it must be re-displayed).  This is time consuming and makes working my way through the collection practially impossible.  Is there something wrong, or is just the nature of smart collections?

    Thanks Curt.
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    So, this solved my problem, but it is definitely a bug in the program that Bridge allows characters in filenames that other functions in the program can't recognize.

  • Update to process version 2010 & smart collection "has adjustments"

    Buying the new Lightroom 3 version ofcourse I wanted to profit of the new process version. So I selected all images I had "not adjusted" before and selected Update to Process version 2010. This works great.
    However I now have one problem.
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    Ok, this is correct and yet I miss my ability to select images which I have not adjusted.
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    Question: how can I select all those images which have only the process version updated, but have no further adjustments?

    Changing the process to version 2010 is considered as an adjustment; it will appear in the photo's history in the same way as any other development adjustment. The smart filter condition "Has Adjustments" only has a true or false setting so you can't distinguish the process version adjustment from any other. Instead of using this method to spot the photos I need to work on, I find that I have more control over my workflow by using keywords such as "review", "develop", "print"; you can make these keywords not exportable so that they are not part of the keyword list in exported photos.
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    If you don't have a backup to go to, you will have to manually identify which photos, which from your point of view, have not been touched.
    Some ideas:
    If you did not make other edits following the change of the process version, and have not made other edits on that date, you could built a smart collection based on the 'Edit Date" and then reset the develop settings of all the photos in that collection.
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    http://www.BDLImagery.com

  • CS6 smart collections quit working

    Bridge CS6 smart collections worked last week, but this week are empty.  I've verified that there *are* still files/photos which should match the criteria.  Troubleshooting didn't help (see screen shot); both "include" boxes are checked; and newly-created smart collections don't work either.  Why? 
    I'm using CS6 Extended (64 bit) running on Win 7 64-bit, both with all applicable updates.  The only thing which I know changed is that Microsoft released a few Windows updates.

    Curt:  Thanks very much for your reply.  I hadn’t tried that exact route, but I had tried Edit > Preferences > Cache > Purge cache.  No success. 
    Omke:  Yes, they sure were present (and are still).
    The winning reply –  from NAPP’s Peter Bauer via its 1-on-1 help desk for members (you too can join, and membership rocks!) – was the following procedure.  It worked like a charm. 
    Gentlemen, my sincere thanks for your considered replies.  I really appreciate them.
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    Peter Bauer @ the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) had the winning solution:
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    --Quit Bridge.
    --Position your fingers over the Control-Alt-Shift keys.
    --Launch Bridge from the Start menu.
    --Immediately after launching Bridge (not before) press and hold down the three keys.
    --When the small dialog box appears, release the keys and elect to replace the Preferences and purge the Cache.

  • Smart Collections

    I installed version 4 upgrade.  The colletion name is visable and the film strip is there but no actual photos.   Help.
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