On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> Go into grid mode. [gdg: corrected "group" to "grid"] >> Select the photos you want in the collection >> Click on the "+" next to collections >> click on create a collection >> name it > > Thanks, Larry -- and Bob, Christine, and David. To meet my urgent need I used > the "quick collection" method with the b shortcut. Now that I understand how > it's done I'll be creating permanent collections in the future. [To be clear: > When I create a collection the images are copied, not moved?]
A Lightroom collection is a view of a grouping images independent of the underlying file system. It exists completely within the Lightroom environment and never moves the actual image files on disk. When creating a collection by selecting a bunch of files and using the + command, you can tell LR whether to make virtual copies of the files or just include references to the master files on disk. Virtual copies are also created by Lightroom (they're essentially duplicate entries in the catalog for the master files that can hold their own processing parameters independent of one another or the master file). Another useful detail is that you can create an empty collection and then set it to be the 'target' collection. This makes sorting a set of images very rapid as you can quickly step through a range of images and tap the B key to add the images to it, just as you would for the default Qquick Collection, without having to then select and create a new collection afterwards. Just right- (control-)click on the collection and use the command to make it the target collection ... you'll see the + indicator next to the collection's name in the list rather than next to the Quick Collection. There are many ways to work this kind of sort and grade operation, Lightroom is quite facile in this area. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
