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I was taking Julia through the basics of Lightroom today and she asked me a question I couldn't answer: what are the use of Collections if you already use Keywords? It's easy to locate images using keywords - so far I haven't noticed any critical advantages of Collections... glad to be put right though
I was taking Julia through the basics of Lightroom today and she asked me a question I couldn't answer: what are the use of Collections if you already use Keywords? It's easy to locate images using keywords - so far I haven't noticed any critical advantages of Collections... glad to be put right though
Any suggestions?
Ian
Ian I thought much the same until fairly recently, then it just clicked and I thought it was brilliant. In my case I was preparing a web gallery for my website where I wanted to include selected photos from many different folders and with different keywords. As I found the images I wanted to use I was able to click on "Add to Quick Collection" This Collection was then used to make the web gallery without actually moving any image from its folder. Once finished you can then save the collection and give it a name therefore saving it for future reference, and this closes the Quick Collection. No new image file is created its only a set of virtual files. It made perfect sense to me and I now find Collections very useful, its something you cannot do with keywords easily and certainly not by flagging or tagging photos in any way with stars or colours
Ian I thought much the same until fairly recently, then it just clicked and I thought it was brilliant. In my case I was preparing a web gallery for my website where I wanted to include selected photos from many different folders and with different keywords. As I found the images I wanted to use I was able to click on "Add to Quick Collection" This Collection was then used to make the web gallery without actually moving any image from its folder. Once finished you can then save the collection and give it a name therefore saving it for future reference, and this closes the Quick Collection. No new image file is created its only a set of virtual files. It made perfect sense to me and I now find Collections very useful, its something you cannot do with keywords easily and certainly not by flagging or tagging photos in any way with stars or colours
Mmmmm.... so you are saying that collections can help manage keyword selections?
Strikes me that Collections can't replace keywords?
Mmmmm.... so you are saying that collections can help manage keyword selections?
Strikes me that Collections can't replace keywords?
Ian
I don't think the boffins at Adobe are suggesting they should Ian. Its just one way of arriving at a similar end, and if your keywords don't always fit the criteria you need to put together a selection of lets say 15-20 images from many different folders, then the Quick Collection principle could well be a better way of arriving at that end.
If for example someone asked to see some samples of say PR Photography or work done on Construction sites. I might have all those photos with the appropriate keywords and would find there are 1000s of them though. If I only wanted 20 it can be easier to click on the Add to Quick Collection for the chosen few, which can then be saved with an appropriate name, rather than flagging or tagging, which could destroy a previous selection made by the same method. Adding a keyword to the chosen 20 might arrive at the same end, but to me the Collection is a bit tidier
I don't think the boffins at Adobe are suggesting they should Ian. Its just one way of arriving at a similar end, and if your keywords don't always fit the criteria you need to put together a selection of lets say 15-20 images from many different folders, then the Quick Collection principle could well be a better way of arriving at that end.
If for example someone asked to see some samples of say PR Photography or work done on Construction sites. I might have all those photos with the appropriate keywords and would find there are 1000s of them though. If I only wanted 20 it can be easier to click on the Add to Quick Collection for the chosen few, which can then be saved with an appropriate name, rather than flagging or tagging, which could destroy a previous selection made by the same method. Adding a keyword to the chosen 20 might arrive at the same end, but to me the Collection is a bit tidier
Yup, that's what I'm beginning to think. I initially thought Collections could be used in a neater and more powerful way than plain keywords, but actually keywords, are still the key with Collections serving to manage selections of images in a convenient way rather than a fundamentally powerful one.
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