Why do we use “Collections”?

A collection is a series of photographs with which we want to do something.
For example, a slideshow or upload to a web page.
When you create a collection of photos, it makes no copies of these photos, but this is just a reference to the place on your computer where the pictures are located.
This is useful to know. Because then you can make as many sets as you wish, your hard disk will never be taxed.
You can use a single photo into multiple collections.
If you remove a photo from a collection, it will only be removed from the collection, not from your hard drive or from another collection where it is located.
However, if you remove your photo from your computer, then it is also removed this from any collection in which it was recorded. Seems logical to me.

You have two types of collections. You have “Smart Collections” (1) and you have “regular collections” (2).
To add photos to a collection, you first navigate to the picture, then click and drag it into the collection.

However, there is another type of “collection”. Namely the “Quick Collection” (3).
We can not find this under “Collections”, but it is under the “Catalog”.
“Quick Collections” is a temporary collection you can use when you want to group some pictures for a short time.
You can have only one “Quick Collection”.
If you need this, you can keep it as a normal or a fast collection.
To make a “Quick Collection” from an ordinary collection, right click “Quick Collection” in the navigator and choose “Save Quick Collection” in the pop-up menu. Give it a name in the window that appears and click the OK button.
To add photos to your “Quick Collection”, click and drag it from any text file to the “Quick Collection” in the navigator.

Create Collection

To create a collection, click the plus icon next to the “Collections”

If there are photos selected at that time, you will find the option “Selected Photos” in the window that opens.
Give the collection a name and click the “Create” button.

This places all the selected photos in this collection.
If you wish to remove a photo from the collection, right click the image and choose “Remove from Collection”.
To add photos to a collection, click and drag it from any folder in the collection. This I already told you.
To move photos in the collection, click and drag it to the desired position.

Create Smart Collection

To create a smart collection we just do the same.
Click the plus icon next to “collections” and select “Create Smart Collection.”

In the dialog that appears, you give it a name and choose the conditions that must be met for the photos to be added to this collection. I have now opted for the “Keywords”, but this can also be based on a label color, classification and I do not know what else.
Click the “Create” button when you’re done.
If you want to add more criteria, click the plus sign in the window.

This places all image that meet these conditions in the smart collection.
If you later add photographs that meet the conditions of this smart collection, they will automatically be added to this collection.
If you remove, in this case, the keyword from a photo, it will be automatically removed from the smart collection.

To modify the terms of a smart collection, right click it and choose “Edit Smart Collection”.
In a smart collection set of photos, you can not click and drag as you can in a normal collection.

Target Collection

New in Lightroom 3 is the “Target Collection”.
The only benefit of a “Target collection” is that you can set it in a fairly quick way to add pictures to this collection.
All you have to do is select the picture and press the “B” button on your keyboard.
In order to set a collection as a “Target collection”, right click it and select “Set as target collection.”
A collection set that is a “Target collection” has a plus icon next to the name.
To return to a “non-target” collection, repeat this action.

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