Loss of position in Grid

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LR 1.3, OS X 1'.4.whatever:

I have a FOLDER of a shoot of 152 images. I'm using Collections to cull these into manageable sets for stock and gallery use. This review goes on over a few days.

I have a Collection started, and as I scroll thru the Folder view, I find an image that looks good. Has this been selected/in the collection? I click on the Collection to see - no it isn't there. So I click back on the Grid and YIKES! I'm jerked back to the very top of the 152 images in the Grid, and have lost the image I was looking at. Now I have to scroll back down and find it again --- and in a series of images that are very similar, I have to double check to see if this is the image that caught my fancy. Too much distraction/work! Sure -- there are many workarounds with flags and colors, but you shouldn't have to use features like those to cover such a simple issue.

The user is King/Queen and wherever He/She leaves a particular view, the software should remember that position for return visits, and not simply default to slamming you back to position 1.
 
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Harrzack, you need not start each post with LR 1.3, OS X 1'.4.whatever: or the like, just update your Signature in User CP.

Don
 
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Harrzack, you're right that it would be nice for positions to be retained when moving from one view to another and back again. Whether or not it will be added in future, it's not there now, so here is a possible workaround.

The way I do this kind of thing is to not place images into a custom collection but into the quick collection. No need to drag the image just press B to put it into the quick collection, or take it out again. The big advantage is that images have an indicator (circle in top left of thumbnail) that indicates whether the image is in the quick collection or not, so there is no need to move to the collection to check on this; so you won't lose your place. When you're done simply save the quick collection as your new custom collection.
 
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If you drag the image to the collection, it will only add it if it's not already in there, so you probably don't need to do the check each time.
 
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Harrzack,

you need not click on the collection to determine if the image(s) you are looking at is in the collection.

Simply hover over the collection name and you will see a white border appear around the thumbnail image(s) that are in that collection.

I would prefer a check mark system just as the Keyword panel has. Your feature request is necessary in my opinion so I have made the request.

David
 
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The check mark solution, like Keywording, for identifying what Collection(s) an image is in, has been a longtime standing request for Adobe to implement. Currently a wait and see situation.

They have a very long to do list.

:)
Don
 
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