Adding to collections; adding keywords

[someothername]

I think some of this is probably feature requests, but I hope some of it is just my not figuring things out yet.

When I right click on a picture in library grid, one of the items is show in collection. That's real handy for figuring out if I've put it in a collection yet. Is there anyway to get a drop down list of the collection sets and collections and add the selected items to the clicked on collection? What I'm doing now is selecting items for a collection, and if it exists, scrolling down out of the folders area to the collection area (quite a long task it seems sometimes) and then dragging and dropping the selection on the collection. Which then changes my focus to the collection, requiring I either right click on one of the photos and show in folder, or left click on the back arrow. Neither of the latter is that time consuming, but it is an extra step.

Since I recently read that keywords are stored in the xmp, but collection info is only in the catalog, and since SQLite seems to go belly up every once in a while, I wonder if there is any way to drag and drop between keywords and collections or vice versa directly, rather than selecting one or the other and then selecting the photos displayed and taking keyword or collection actions. For the most part, I'm finding my collections tend to be named the same kinds of words I'd want as higher level keywords for those photos. For example, a collection set called plants that contains a collection set called flowers, that contains collections for roses, yellow flowers and so forth.

Also, what does the check mark in front of the keyword in the keyword list do when it exists?

Thanks,

 

[Gene McCullagh]

Is there anyway to get a drop down list of the collection sets and collections and add the selected items to the clicked on collection?

Not at this time but it sounds like a good feature request.

What I'm doing now is selecting items for a collection, and if it exists, scrolling down out of the folders area to the collection area (quite a long task it seems sometimes) and then dragging and dropping the selection on the collection. Which then changes my focus to the collection, requiring I either right click on one of the photos and show in folder, or left click on the back arrow. Neither of the latter is that time consuming, but it is an extra step.

Try this... select the items and then scroll to the collection you want to put them in. Right-click on that collection name and choose "Add Selected Photos to This Collection" That will add them but not change your focus to the collection.

If the collection does not exists here's a way to create it and keep your focus where it is. Select your images then right-click and add to Quick collection. Now right-click on the Quick collection and choose Save Quick Collection. Give it a name and it will create that collection with your images in it yet leave your focus where it was.

Since I recently read that keywords are stored in the xmp, but collection info is only in the catalog, and since SQLite seems to go belly up every once in a while, I wonder if there is any way to drag and drop between keywords and collections or vice versa directly, rather than selecting one or the other and then selecting the photos displayed and taking keyword or collection actions. For the most part, I'm finding my collections tend to be named the same kinds of words I'd want as higher level keywords for those photos. For example, a collection set called plants that contains a collection set called flowers, that contains collections for roses, yellow flowers and so forth.

No, there's no drag and drop between these. You could filter for the keywords and then create a collection from it. On the other side you could go to a collection and add keywords to the images.

Sounds like another feature request.

Also, what does the check mark in front of the keyword in the keyword list do when it exists?

With images selected you can check the boxes in front of the keywords and that will add them to the selected images. Also, if you select an image and look at the keyword list the checks appear in front of those keywords that are applied to that image.

I hope that helps!

 

[someothername]

Yes, thank, that last bit is helpful. I see that when I select multiple photos, the keywords with checks have been applied to all, while a minus sign or hyphen is placed in front of the keywords that only apply to some of the images. Much easier for me to simply look in the keyword box, though.

And yes, I see now that doing a right click on an existing collection and adding that way leaves my focus where it was. But getting down to the collection area is still a lot of wheel rolling.

The quick collection route is a nice trick, but unfortunately all my collections are inside collection sets, sometimes a couple layers down and that route won't let me pick where to put the collection.

 

[Gene McCullagh]

...but unfortunately all my collections are inside collection sets, sometimes a couple layers down and that route won't let me pick where to put the collection.

True. But if you have collections sets you can always drag and drop the newly created collections into those sets after you're done creating them.

I agree, though, that the dialog should offer the ability to put the collection in a set.