How many smart collection?

Question

I am doing a event where I will be shooting family portriat and allow the client to select the photo they want to be printed as a 8x10. My plan is to use star ratings to with smart collections to sperate the family portrait from mother & father pose or kids only pose. My dillima is that I want to create a collection for each client that will house there shot use to choose there 8x10. Can I create a smart collection for each client?

Answer 1

What you're looking for is a relatively common workflow pattern among professional photographers and it seems that everyone does this somewhat differently. If I'm to understand what you're looking for, it is to work on a series of photos from one familyphoto session and then separate them into individual sets for showing. There are a number of ways to do this. Here's my preference. I would import all the photos from one family session and put a title on all images as ["family name" sequence}. I would also put the family name as a keyword, or use 1aaa(family name) as a keyword to place it up near the top of your keyword list for development purposes. After developing the images for the family keyword, I would re-title all of the images with the name of the individual shown and add a keyword specifically for the person or persons in the image nested under the family name as follows: Family name >parent 1, parent 2, child 1, child 2, etc., and remove the 1aaa keyword.  When it came time to show them I would select the appropriate keyword and use the Slideshow module to show only those specific to that keyword; or place each keyworded group into a separate collection (top choice in the Library menu) and show from there. As an image was chosen for purchase, I would assign a star rating to it and do one of the following when ready for production. I would either go back to the family keyword and sort by rating and produce from here, or set up a smart collection with two fields - 1-the family keyword and 2 the appropriate number of stars. When the job was complete, or I had more collections than I wanted, I would delete the collection, relying on the keywords to find them in the future.
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