All language subtitles for 50 - Intro to Smart Collections

In this lecture, we'll explore
a very efficient way of sorting catalog

images into different collections,
automatically

using smart collections.

We worked with standard collections
earlier

when we created our collections
or in other words, virtual folders.

We had to manually drag
the images into the collection folders

or set up a target collection and manually
insert them into the target collection.

This smart collection set contains

a number of smart collections
with smart collections.

We can set up rules that place our images
into collections automatically.

If you look in your collections panel,
you'll notice

the heading Smart Collections.

You may have seen this earlier.

We just haven't worked with it
until this point.

Expand the smart collections

by clicking on this little arrow
to the left of the heading.

Our Smart collection set
contains a number of smart collections.

This includes Colored Red five stars
past month,

recently
modified video files and without keywords.

If you look to the right of each
one of these headings,

you'll see that each one already contains
images.

That's because Lightroom
has automatically added images

that match certain criteria
to each one of these smart collections.

For example, the colored Red Smart
collection has a rule.

This rule checks for any images
that have a red color

label and automatically inserts
them into the colored red.

Smart Collection.

We didn't even have to do anything.

This was completely automated.

Another example is five stars.

As soon as we attached
five stars to any one of our images,

it was automatically placed
into the five stars.

Smart Collection Video Files.

Lightroom detected that one of our files
in our gallery are video,

and so that video file can be found
in the video files.

Smart Collection.

We have

six images and one video
that has no keywords,

and that's the reason these images
were placed in the without keywords.

Smart Collection
Administering Smart collections

is just like administering
regular collections.

For example,
if we wanted to delete or rename it,

we just right click on it
and click on rename and delete.

And similar to standard collections,
we can also export

this smart collection
as a separate catalog.

In addition to these smart collections
that Lightroom automatically generated

for us, we can create our own custom
smart collections

with our own set of rules.

In the next lecture,
we'll show you how to do that.