Smart Collection selecting months

[thommy]

Lightroom Version Number

8.1

Operating System

1. Windows 10

Hi

I'm trying to collect all my best (4-5 stars) of each month all years in a smart collection.
Tryed my best but failed - anyone have any ideas how to do it?
That is 12 collections - from "Best of January - all years" to "Best of December - all years".
If not possible - would there be any plugins that could do the trick?

Thommy

 

[Johan Elzenga]

It’s possible, but takes quite a bit of work. Create a smart collection that uses ‘Any’ for the different criteria, then define a date range for each year, so for January you’ll have to use a range of 01 jan - 31 jan for each year in the catalog.

The ‘Any Filter’ plugin should be able to do this, but not as a smart collection. Any Filter Lightroom Plugin

 

[thommy]

ok, thanks a lot!!
But what about the star ratings 4 - 5?

Thommy

 

[Johan Elzenga]

But what about the star ratings 4 - 5?

You can add that too in the smart collection (but that requires a slightly different setup) and also in the 'Any Filter' search criteria.

 

[johnbeardy]

My Search and Replace plugin does it too, breaking out each bit of the time so you can filter/SC by month, day of month, hour, minute etc. You don't have to buy it to use this function.

 

[thommy]

I'm not sure how to do as you suggest Johan.
Would it be possible to send a screen shot whenever you have time?

John - I will look into your plugin. Might become handy for other things as well.

Thommy

 

[johnbeardy]

It's a Swiss army knife, Thommy!

This shows how one can use the Refresh Workflow Filters command. Apart from the month, here I can see that 129 images don't yet have captions, and I can also filter by caption. Where you see "Autumn colours in Mane" twice, I am wondering why this should be, and I often find typos or errors by investigating further (though it may be that they are genuinely different captions that start the same). I can also see how many keywords I've entered, here telling me I've not keyworded enough, and even the total length of the export keywords (some stock agencies impose limits).

Update - to prove my point, just looking at the screenshot I noticed the misspelling "Borrwodale"

 

[thommy]

Thanks Johan!
The filtering is not a problem (yet). I can manage that.
I'm trying to create a smart collection/s or regular collection with my 4-5 rated images for each month/each year.
Or am I missing something?

Thommy

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Thanks Johan!
The filtering is not a problem (yet). I can manage that.
I'm trying to create a smart collection/s or regular collection with my 4-5 rated images for each month/each year.
Or am I missing something?

Thommy

Seems you are indeed missing something. I didn't say anything about filtering. I said you can create a smart collection for that, but it's a bit cumbersome. Here's how it would look for January and the last three years. Note that you have to hold down the Alt-key when you click on the plus icon for the second criterium in order to get the extra option needed to split into an 'Any' and an 'All' part.

 

[johnbeardy]

This is the equivalent using the plugin. And so on.

 

[thommy]

Seems you are indeed missing something. I didn't say anything about filtering. I said you can create a smart collection for that, but it's a bit cumbersome. Here's how it would look for January and the last three years. Note that you have to hold down the Alt-key when you click on the plus icon for the second criterium in order to get the extra option needed to split into an 'Any' and an 'All' part.

View attachment 12042

Great, Johan!
Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot for helping me.

Thommy

 

[thommy]

This is the equivalent using the plugin. And so on.

View attachment 12043

Thanks John!
I will look inte the plugin this evening

Thommy