Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Lightroom Tip – harness the power of the Target Collection

Learn how to create and use the Lightroom Target Collection feature

Lighroom’s target collection feature makes it easy for you to add images to a collection. If you make a collection the target collection you can add an image to that collection by simply pressing the letter B on the keyboard. But, be warned, once it is added if you press B again you will remove the image from the target collection.

To make a Collection the Target Collection: right click it and choose Set as Target Collection.

Any Collection (except a Smart Collection) can be designated as the Target Collection but there can only be one Target Collection at the one time.

If you deselect the current Target Collection: by right clicking its name and disabling Set as Target Collection, then the Quick Collection becomes the Target Collection, by default.

Helen Bradley

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Lightroom Tip – Working with Quick Collection

Understand what the Quick Collection is and how to use it

The Quick Collection is a temporary collection in the Catalog area of the Library in Lightroom. You can use it to manage your images.

You can drag and drop images into the Quick collection and use it to store images temporarily.

The Quick Collection doesn’t lose its contents when you close and reopen Lightroom.

When you right click the Quick Collection you can choose Set as Target Collection, Clear Quick Collection or Save Quick Collection to save its contents as a regular Collection.

Helen Bradley