PuppyDogMom
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Can you create a collection(s) as a sub-category inside a collection? For example, I'd like to create a collection called "Destin" and then within that collection, create Day 1, Day 2, etc.
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It's good to know I can do that. Now, how do I do that? Thanks, guys.
You can create new collection sets at any time, Then if you wish you can drag any existing collections to the appropriate collection set and drop them to nest the collections inside a collection set.Rob...thanks. I think I've figured it out. And, I've been doing something wrong when I have created my collections. I should have been creating collection sets. Not sure that I understand the rules, though.
A Target Collection has to be a static Collection, not a Smart Collection and Not a Collection Set. Collection Sets can contain only Collections and other Collections Sets. A Collection Set can not contain images. So, create a collection in the Collection Set and you can make that collection the Target Collection.I'm finding that you cannot make a collection set a target collection. When I import photos they go into a dated folder. I'm trying to move them into a collection set but don't seem to be able to do that. Can it be done?
Any of those collections in the collection set can be target collection. You can only have one Target Collection at a time. When you press the "B" shortcut key, the selected image is assigned to the Target Collection. If you want to assign an image to one of several designated collections, those collections need to be smart collections. For example if the criteria for a Smart Collection is {Rating}{is}{****} any time you assign a 4 star rating to an image, it will automatically be assigned to the "4 Star Smart Collection". Target collection becomes irrelevant at this point. You can do the same for color labels or keywords or any complex metadata characteristics.Sorry to be so slow on this. So, I can make a collection set and have it consist of collections? And each of those collections in the collection set can be target collections?
I don't believe you can do that in collection sets.I still have not yet found how to nest a collection of photos within a larger set, such as Desert Photo Shoot with subsets of Monday, Tuesday, etc. For my particular case, it is a book with chapters.
I will play with LR6 a bit to see if they have a feature that allows this procedure in my collections. Have you ever felt that you were doing things backwards? I may have mixed up what I can do with the group called "collections" as opposed to the group called "pictures" above it which is in "folders." I will go back to the manual and rethink what I am doing.
Be very carefully if you want to go move images in the "folders" group. They can only reside in one folder and normaly you leave them where Lightroom put them on import. The rest of the organizing work is intended to be done with collection sets, collections, smart collections and (hierachical) keywords.I may have mixed up what I can do with the group called "collections" as opposed to the group called "pictures" above it which is in "folders." I will go back to the manual and rethink what I am doing.