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Thanks, Anthony ... Tip: Hold down Alt/Option key when you create the rules, it gives you a much more detailed search ability.

Great idea! Something I never use and you just showed me why I should be.

Smart collections are a great way to work. I use it with keywords

Thanks for the info. Seasons greetings. Hope you’re keeping warm, finished shoveling and have power.

Thanks, Anthony, for all the videos you post!!

Very good, just what I can use, thank you very much.👍👍

Been using LR for years and did not know about smart collections. Thank you!

This was really informative and very useful. I'm going to start doing that once I finish typing this. Thank you, Anthony.

Never used them. Now I will. Thanks

Thanks for this, never realized this could be done, but I can see several uses I can employ. Thanks again.

Something I haven't done but recently created a few and like 'em. E.g. by camera/lens or focal length. I especially like the latter as I can see where I typically use a zoom lens at. Thanks.

Thank you 👍​

Hi Anthony, great video on Smart Collections. I see you have lots of Folders. Scott Kelby preaches one Catalog and (basically) one Folder. That makes a lot of sense to me, to avoid chaos and duplicate work. It seems that there is nothing you can do with Catalogs and Folders that you can’t do with the more flexible and “safer” Selections. Would you agree? Even for deleting, you mark those photos in Selection work and delete them in the one Folder based on that marking. Comments?

Smart Collections are brilliant, extremely useful, and powerful. However, they slow down the startup as LR has to repopulate them each and every time the catalog loads.

Smart Collections didn't work for me at all in Lightroom Classic CC. I tried to make a smart collection of images greater than 9.8mb and it pulled in images much smaller than that. My rule was: size - megapixels - is greater than - 9.8. Lightroom pulled 8MB images into the smart collection. Why can't Adobe just give us the option to sort by file size(MB) in the main folders? Users have been asking for this option for at least 4 years now.

Interestingly we can also import smart collection settings too

This is very Itunes like. Used to use those for various smartlists on my Ipod

With the huge changes LRC and PS have undergone, are you thinking of redoing the playlist for each and bring each module up to date?

Brilliant...and I think this is the only was to find photos without keywords...🤔 Is there any other way to find all photos without keywords in a catalogue?

Does smart collections only come with Lightroom classic? I do not see it in Lightroom cc. Thank you.

Why would you use ordinary collections? With a Smart collection adding photos automatically renders an ordinary collection option redundant. What am I missing if this is not the case. Adding photos manually to a collection would be a pain.

Im going crazy everytime I try to edit a photo it keeps going to collections how do I stop that?

I have 800k pictures but do multiple smart collects slow down LRC?

Since lightroom is constantly updating smart collection does this slow down Lightroom?

I wish photoshop elements would have something similar (not a saved search)

Do smart collections sync with the cloud version of lightroom?

Can you sort the smart collections list?

I still use Google picasa because it’s perfect for me. One of the great things is albums by keywords. Can Lightroom smart collection be from a keyword tag?

Do smart collections occupy any space on my hard drive? My guess: no.