frozenframe
Ron
- Joined
- May 29, 2013
- Messages
- 170
- Location
- Kansas, USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- 6.x
Hi all,
I don't post much here, because most of the time I can find or figure out answers to my questions. However this one has me stumped.
First I do know how to cull select my images. I have a catalog of a little over 15k images. I have added keywords, pick-flags, color-labels and of course collections.
What I'm working on is photo books for my wife's sisters (she has 4), as Christmas gifts for them. So thanks to the keywords I've managed to narrow the images of her family down to roughly 500. I've created a Collection Set and a Collection inside that set, placing all 500 images in that collection, calling it First Selection. Here's where I'm not sure how to proceed.
All those images are RAW, but they also all have pick-flags and various color labels that I've use for other projects. Of course I understand that the thumbnails in the collections are place holders, so changing any attribute in the collection is changing the original.
So what would be an intelligent way to proceed to further cull them down. The photo books will have about 20 pages.
I don't post much here, because most of the time I can find or figure out answers to my questions. However this one has me stumped.
First I do know how to cull select my images. I have a catalog of a little over 15k images. I have added keywords, pick-flags, color-labels and of course collections.
What I'm working on is photo books for my wife's sisters (she has 4), as Christmas gifts for them. So thanks to the keywords I've managed to narrow the images of her family down to roughly 500. I've created a Collection Set and a Collection inside that set, placing all 500 images in that collection, calling it First Selection. Here's where I'm not sure how to proceed.
All those images are RAW, but they also all have pick-flags and various color labels that I've use for other projects. Of course I understand that the thumbnails in the collections are place holders, so changing any attribute in the collection is changing the original.
So what would be an intelligent way to proceed to further cull them down. The photo books will have about 20 pages.
- Don't worry about changing the attributes (flags and color labels), clear them all so I can select again?
- I have some Smart Collections based on some of these attributes such as color labels.
- I've considered selecting those images in this collection and exporting as a catalog then using the new catalog to work on the photo books. I haven't tried this yet, but I think that the attributes would be catalog specific, so changing them in the new catalog would not affect them in my main and only one.
- Any other way that's possible in LR, that I'm obviously not thinking of?