Library module filmstrip buttons

[parallax44]

Lightroom Version Number

14.0.1

Operating System

1. macOS 15 Sequoia

What is this button for at upper right corner of filmstrip images?

 

[clee01l]

That is the indicator for images that are in the designated target collection (hot key B)


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[parallax44]

Thank you, Cletus. What does pushing it do besides changing the state of the button? I’ve found absolutely nothing about it in Adobe or the wild.

 

[clee01l]

Thank you, Cletus. What does pushing it do besides changing the state of the button? I’ve found absolutely nothing about it in Adobe or the wild.

Your Target Collection will contain all of the images that you have assigned to it (they also show the darkened circle in the thumbnail) The “B” hot key will toggle any selected image to assign or remove it from the target collection. Based upon what you are saying the darkened circle on the thumbnail is also a toggle. (This is something I did not know).


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[Conrad Chavez]

What does pushing it do besides changing the state of the button? I’ve found absolutely nothing about it in Adobe or the wild.

In Victoria’s Lightroom Classic Missing FAQ book, this subject (Target Collection) is described on page 113.

The button isn’t just an indicator, it’s also a control. As shown in the demo below, clicking it adds or removes it from the current target collection. This is a very quick way to add images to one specific collection.

These are the steps used in the demo:

1. Set a collection as the target collection (right-click and choose Set as Target Collection).
   A “+” appears after the collection name, to mark that as the current Target Collection.
2. Click the circle on an image thumbnail. This button is a shortcut for the toggle command Photo > Add to/Remove from Target Collection (single-key shortcut “B”).
   That image is now added to the current target collection. Notice that the number of images in the target collection increases by 1.
3. Clicking the circle again toggles its inclusion in the collection, so it’s removed, and the number of images in the target collection decreases by 1.

How this is useful: You made a new collection, and now you want to go through and quickly add images that need to go into that collection, so you set it as the Target Collection. Then you scroll through different folders and collections looking for the images you want to add to that collection, and when you see one, you click the circle. Or if you prefer keyboard shortcuts so you’ve been moving among images by pressing arrow keys, you can press the B key to add the currently selected image to the target collection.

If you click the circle and you haven’t set a Target Collection, the image is added to the Quick Collection because that’s the default Target Collection.