On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Godfrey -- on both counts, the explanation and the tip. A further question about collections -- Quick and otherwise: If they're created entirely within LR, never moved to disk -- outside of LR, I take it -- couldn't LR end up bloated if you've got several collections, maybe some of 'em large? Or are collections, even non-Quick ones, always temporary? Thanks again, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA [email protected] "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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.
