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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: mboerma on August 03, 2008, 10:31:55 am
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In part 3 of the video tutorial Jeff talks about the "Smart Collections". He indicates that LR2.0 comes with a couple of default smart collections and shows them (for example Recently Modified, Five Starts, Treatment-Color, etc.).
In my version of LR2.0 I don't have the predefined smart collections. Can I download them somewhere? Or is there something missing from my installation (Mac, 10.5.4, PPC).
Thanks for the great video tutorials!
Maarten
MaartenBoermaPhotography (http://www.maartenboerma.nl)
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You can create a Smart Collection by right/control clicking on the 'Smart Collections' title, choose 'Create Smart Collection...' and then choosing the parameters of what is effectively a saved search.
Chris
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You can create a Smart Collection by right/control clicking on the 'Smart Collections' title, choose 'Create Smart Collection...' and then choosing the parameters of what is effectively a saved search.
Chris
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Thanks, Chris. I did this when I couldn't find presets. I was just wondering if I was missing something or if there is an error in the tutorial.
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Thanks, Chris. I did this when I couldn't find presets. I was just wondering if I was missing something or if there is an error in the tutorial.
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Did you figure out how to create the "recently modified" smart collection? I think I must have a mental block or something as I cannot see how to do that to get only those things that have been edited in this session.
Muir
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When I installed LR2 - it installed the following folders as part of Smart Collections --- Colored Red, Five Stars, Past Month, Recently Modified and Without Keywords.....
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Did you figure out how to create the "recently modified" smart collection? I think I must have a mental block or something as I cannot see how to do that to get only those things that have been edited in this session.
Muir
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Look for the 'Edit Date' parameter using either Edit or Create Smart Collection command and then set the parameters of what you consider 'Recently Modified'
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Look for the 'Edit Date' parameter using either Edit or Create Smart Collection command and then set the parameters of what you consider 'Recently Modified'
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Chris,
thanks - I'll try that.
Muir
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It's quite easy to create them yourself, but I found it strange that some people seam the get them when they installed LR2 and I didn't. But hey, now I tried and know how to do it myself and I've seen the list of possibilities.
I wonder how much processor time it costs to generate them each time something changes in the library. In other words, is it smart to have a lot of smart collections?
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Not certain of the answer to that, but my guess is that a Smart Collection doesn't initiate a CPU click until you open one - as in 'Find all 5 Star...' or 'Find files changed in the past 2 days...'
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You can create a Smart Collection by right/control clicking on the 'Smart Collections' title, choose 'Create Smart Collection...' and then choosing the parameters of what is effectively a saved search.
Chris
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Doesn't seem to work? Where do i find the parameters? I see them in the preferences but not in the left library panel.
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Follow my instructions and you will find them as the dialog to Edit or Create a Smart Collection....
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[attachment=7917:attachment]I see default smart collections in Lightroom presets, I just do not have any default smart collections showing in Lightroom 2. Why....
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[attachment=7917:attachment]I see default smart collections in Lightroom presets, I just do not have any default smart collections showing in Lightroom 2. Why....
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Do you have 'Store Presets with Catalog' enabled in the Presets Tab of Preferences? Having this on can hide presets when you've changed to a different catalog.
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Do you have 'Store Presets with Catalog' enabled in the Presets Tab of Preferences? Having this on can hide presets when you've changed to a different catalog.
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Thank you for responding….
“Store Presets with Catalog” is not enabled.
I have created several develop and slideshow presets and see the associated file in the Lightroom presets folders. I created a smart collection preset for recently modified and saved as “Recently Modified by Floyd” A search for *.lrtemplate reveals the five included smart collection presets in the appropriate folder and any templates I have created and saved, however I can not find and template named “Recently Modified by Floyd”.
I have posted this question on four different forums and received basically the same answer from everyone.
“I don’t know why you can’t see the included smart collection templates; however it is very easy to create you own”.
Using the included templates is not important. I want to know why they do not load into Lightroom and why can I find all my custom presets except the custom smart collections created by me.
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