Excluding Desktop and Dropbox from Search

Is there a way to temporarily exclude my Desktop and Dropbox from a Spotlight search? I want to run some of these to find pdfs and image files - and then move them all - but I don't want to touch the ones in these two locations.
Do I have to go into Settings to do this or can I do it in the search criteria somehow?
Alternatively, is there a way to /sort/ the results by locations so that I can move everything not /listed/ in these two locations?
Thanks.

You can set up "Boolean" searches with Finder/Spotlight, but as far as I know, it's only for "what to search for", not for "where to look". There are at least two ways to do it.
Here is a test folder I made:
Method 1) You can include operators such as AND, OR, NOT (capitalized) in the search field:
Method 2) You can option-click on this little plus sign
This will generate a new set of "combination" criteria with Boolean choices. These sets can be nested further:
With respect to file location, the free utility EasyFind is slower than Finder/Spotlight, but displays its search results in a list that includes a sortable "where" column.
There's an app called Houdaspot which uses the Spotlight index and can apparently search by location, but it costs $30. I haven't used it.

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