Smart Collection and copyright

I see how to set up a smart collection for copyright status. But I do not see how to set up a smart collection or filter that selects on whether the copyright field itself has been filled in (contains the © copyright symbol).
Is there any way to do that? It seems to me that a flag saying an image is copyrighted is not terribly effective of the copyright statement itself is omitted.

Guy – I am having a very similar issue in this discussion:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/656942?tstart=0
Still wondering why some fields can be filtered, and some can't.

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Thanks Rob, but I was really wondering if a copy of the original raw file could be added. But I'll have to try this to see if I like it. Thanks again!
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I have recently acquired an iPhone, and use it to view podcasts.
But I realised that I actually have video podcasts that don't get synced with my iPhone due to wrong video format or to big resolution.
I know I can convert to the correct format and resolution, and sometimes I do, but some videos I want to keep the high resolution, and then watch them on my macbook pro instead of using the iPhone.
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But I realised that I actually have video podcasts that don't get synced with my iPhone due to wrong video format or to big resolution.
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To find out easily what videos wont get synced to the iPhone I thought I would set up a smart folder where they all would reside.
I know how to sort by video format, but I am at a loss figuring how to select the ones with a resolution to big for the iPhone (over 640*480).
I know I can check them individually, but just thought I pop the question here, because if there is a fix to this, then it would be much easier...

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I hope that helps!

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I've been playing with the new LR4 beta for all of 10 minutes now, and am disappointed to see that Smart Collections haven't moved forward at all.
Things I'd hoped to see:
In the Edit Smart Collection window, why when you add a new rule does it always default to "Rating"? How is that the most likely thing I want? Sure, make it the default for the first rule, but thereafter, I think it would be a lot more useful if it added another rule of the type on the line you pressed '+' on. That is, if I have a "Keywords...Doesn't Contain" rule and press the '+' button on that line, there's a better chance that I want another such rule than that I want yet another "Rating" rule.
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Nested rule sets aren't discoverable. I stumbled across this feature by accident, and only then because I knew how to do the same in iTunes. I'd rather see a third button to the right of each rule line that gave a way to create a nesting than the current magic Option trick. One of the great things about Lightroom is how discoverable most things are; you scarcely need the manual. This is a sharp corner than needs to be knocked off.
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We don't even get one new rule having to do with geoencoding. Just off the top of my head, I'd kind of like to have a Smart Collection that found photos taken within 100 feet of my home's lat/long and didn't contain the keyword "home". I have many such Smart Collections in a Collection Set called "Warnings", each of which automatically checks my photos for something that I often forget.
You can't reorder rules or move them into or out of groups. I have Smart Collections with a dozen or so rules, and some with logic nested three levels. When assembling such complex little beasts, it isn't always clear while building it what logic order will give the desired result. You have to iterate, and that often means taking a perfectly good rule and moving it somewhere else. Lacking the ability to reorganize the existing rules, that means creating a new "Rating" rule, changing its type to match, cut-and-pasting the match criteria [if text] and deleting the old rule. Pfagh.
That's enough for now.

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Hello,
This is really simple, I used to be able to select a folder (say, all images in 2013) and then control click a smart collection I had created (rated > 1 star) and that would filter my images from 2013 and only display the ones that were rated higher then one star.
Odly, I cannot seem to get this to work in 5.3 (win7 pc fwiw). When I do this, it shows images that aren't from 2013 (the folder I selected). Can anyone explain or enlighten me as to what is going on?
To be clear, I expect to see images from 2013 that are rated > 1 star. If I select a folder with a single unrated image and then control click a "> 1 star" smart collection, it shows the image still. It doesn't seem to filter, it's showing both the contents of the smart collection and my one image.
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Adobe changed the behavior in LR 4. Here's what employee Benjamin Warde said about the change:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/multi_selecting_smart_collections_an d_folders_in_library_module_has_changed_for_the_worse
In Lightroom 3, multi-selecting various folders and collections would sometimes show the union, and sometimes show the intersection. The inconsistencies in the behavior were confusing to a lot of people, and caused various problems as well. In Lightroom 4, all such multi-selects now show the union. We certainly recognize that any change (even an ostensible bug fix) can potentially be detrimental to certain workflows, and we appreciate getting this feedback. In the case of the particular use cases described in this thread, it should be fairly easy to do what you want to do using Filters.
That thread has a lot discussion about which behavior was preferrable.   Here's how LR 4 and later behave:
- Selecting multiple sources (folders, collections, smart collections, publish collections) in the left-hand panel unions them (combines them).
- Filters in the Library Filter Bar intersect with (restrict) the selected sources.
- In the Library Filter Bar, in general, different criteria intersect with each other.
- An exception to the previous rule: Selecting multiple items in a column in the Metadata browser unions them, while multiple columns intersect. E.g. selecting two keywords from the same Keyword column filters for photos that have either keyword assigned; adding a Camera column and selecting a particular camera filters for photos taken with that camera and have either keyword assigned.
For many common use cases, including yours, using the Library Filter Bar instead of smart collections can solve your issue.   E.g. select the desired folder and in the Library Filter Bar, add a Label column in the Metadata browser and select the label Blue. Save those filter settings as a preset to make it more convenient to recall them.
Filters don't have the full search capabilities that smart collections do -- they're missing criteria and comparison operators and you can't form full boolean expressions. When you need those extra search capabilities to intersect with sources, workarounds include:
- See Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață's post in the thread referenced above for a multi-step method that gets the job done with many more clicks.
- Use the Any Filter plugin.

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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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Smart Collection bug with Title doesn't contain rule

Hi,
There are various articles on smart collections that check if the "Title" field is filled or not. Because the "Title" field doesn't have an "is empty" like function, the sugested solution is to use the rule:
Title   doesn't contain   a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z
But there is a bug in this rule. I found that the letter 't' is causing a problem. The letter 't' seems to include all characters.
Situation:
Four images that have a their Title field as follows:
Image 1:
Image 2: 2014-01 - Street Photography.dng
Image 3: 2014-01
Image 4: Some Image
(Image 1 has an empty title)
Four smart collections with the following rules:
Collection 1: Title   doesn't contain   a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z
Collection 2: Title   doesn't contain   0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Collection 3: Title   doesn't contain   a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,u,v,w,x,y,z
Collection 4: Title   doesn't contain   t
My expected result of the smart collections is:
Collection 1: Image 1 and Image 3
Collection 2: Image 1 and Image 4
Collection 3: Image 1 and Image 3
Collection 4: Image 1, Image 3 and Image 4
The actual result of the smart collections is:
Collection 1: Image 1
Collection 2: Image 1 and Image 4
Collection 3: Image 1 and Image 3
Collection 4: Image 1
I'm using Lightroom 5.7 on a MacBook Pro 17" (mid 2010), i7 @ 2.66GHz, 8GB RAM and 2 x 240GB SSD's running on OS X 10.10.1
My questions are:
Can anyone, specially from the Adobe Lightroom team, confirm this?
How to solve this issue?
With kind regards,
Dennis
www.idemi.nl

That is a bizarre bug. There is an even simpler way to reproduce the problem: Have two pics, one with title "a" and the other with title "t". The criterion "Title Contains a" correctly shows just the first picture, but the criterion "Title Contains t" shows both.
Searching with smart collections and filters has numerous bugs, but this one is by far the most surprising. As a geek programmer, I'd love to know what causes this!
Adobe rarely reads this forum -- I suggest you post this in the official Adobe feedback forum, which Adobe does faithfully read (but only infrequently responds).

Can I sequence the order of images in a smart collection by the dates the images were taken

I understand you can not move images around in a smart collection, but my question is, "Can I establish the order by date taken at the time the smart collection is populated, starting with the earliest date in the smart collerction?

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000 Workflow (Collection Set)
     100 Pick Flag [P] [X] -    Condition:    Pick Flag   is   Flagged
     200 Metadata -               Condition:     Pick Flagged is flagged
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I took the time to list everything like this so that I hope everybody can understand my madness.

Thanks for the reply. No I haven't see your workflow smart collections, I would like to see them. Where can I see them. As to the movement of my photos. I guess I mean that once I have completed a step I want the photo to move to the next step set by the conditions of the smart collection and so on till all photos are ready to be disbursed. I hope that helps.
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