- [Instructor] Collections are a way to group photos
in one place without moving or duplicating them
on your hard drive.
Unlike a folder, a collection resides
in the Lightroom Classic catalog,
not out on the drive.
Let's create some collections for the travel photos,
starting with the folders in chapter two 02 04.
I'll come down to the Collections panel here
on the left-hand side and click the big plus
and then choose Create collection.
This will create a regular collection
and I'm going to create a Best of Australia collection
and we'll leave all these options off for right now
and then click Create.
And we'll see that that added
the Best of Australia collection
down here in the Collections panel,
but there aren't any images in it yet.
We're going to drag and drop some images in it
from the Australia folder up here.
So I'll click on Australia to select those images
and then let's filter down to the ones
that we added the flag to.
And then I'll select all of these images
with a Command + A or a Control + A if you're on Windows
and we'll drag and drop them into the collection.
To drag and drop them you need to make sure to click
in the image area, not on the frame.
And it doesn't matter which one of them.
We'll click and drag
and you'll see that it's picking up that whole set of them.
And as soon as Best of Australia is highlighted I'll release
and now those 14 images are part of this collection.
Let's create another collection for Best of UK.
This time we'll turn on the Set as target collection,
because this gives us a couple other options
for adding images.
I'll click Create.
We'll see that there is a new collection here
and take a close look at the name.
It says Best of UK and there's a plus next to it.
That plus denotes that the target collection
has been turned on.
So let's go back up to the Folders panel
and click on the UK folder
to see all the images in the UK folder.
Let me pull this thumbnails up,
so we can see that better.
As I hover my mouse over the cell
in the upper right-hand corner a circle appears
and if you click on that circle,
or bubble sometimes I call it,
that image gets added to the collection,
because it's been set up as a target collection.
So I can quickly go around here picking images
I want to add to the collection
by clicking on them in that upper right corner
and notice that that bubble or circle
gets a dark gray color when it's been added.
So we have five images in the Best of UK now.
We can also use a keyboard shortcut B to add those
and I like to go to the loupe view to do this.
So I'll hit the E key on my keyboard
to go into the loupe view and then the right arrow key
to go to the next image.
If I hit my B key
it'll add that image to the target collection.
So now we have six images.
This image is already in the target collection
and we can tell in the film strip down here
it has that gray bubble in that right hand corner.
So if I hit the B key now
it will remove it from the target collection.
So if I want to add another one
I have to navigate through here to find one
that isn't already in the collection.
So we'll add this one and I'll add this image as well.
Now, when we're finished adding images
to a target collection
it's always a really good idea to turn that off,
so that you don't accidentally add more images.
The easiest way to do that as a right-click
or a Control + click,
and you'll see that the check
is next to set as target collection.
Before I remove this,
take a glance up above where it says Catalog
and under there, it says Quick Collection,
because as soon as I removed the target collection
from this regular collection,
the plus got added up here to the Quick Collection.
So by default, the Quick Collection is always set up
as a target collection for the B key
and it's a way to quickly make
a temporary collection of images.
Let's create one more regular collection
and we'll make this the Best of Travel
and say Create.
Then we'll add all of our Best of Australia images
to the Best of Travel.
The easiest way to do this is to go back to the grid view,
and then I'll do a Command + A or a Control + A
to select all of those
and then drag them down into Best of Travel.
So the same images can be in multiple collections.
Let's do that with the Best of UK too.
We'll select all of these
and add them into the Best of Travel.
And let's add some images from Italy as well.
So I'm going back up to the Folders panel to do this,
selecting the Italy images by clicking on the folder name,
I'll do a Command + A or a Control + A
to select all of those
and drag those down into the Best of Travel.
So photos can be added to collections from any folders
and the same photo can be in multiple different collections.
That doesn't matter at all.
And after you've added the images,
let's make the thumbnails a little smaller,
so we can see them all.
If you decided that one of these images
doesn't belong in this collection,
you can simply click on it and hit the Delete key
and that removes it from the collection,
but it does not delete it from your catalog.
So if we go back up here to the folder of Italy
we'll see that that image that I removed from the collection
is still here in the folder.
The same works for deleting collections.
If you do a right-click or a Control + click,
you have the option to delete the collection,
and that will remove the collection from your catalog,
but it will not remove the images from your catalog.
I highly recommend making collections of your best images.
It's a brilliant way to organize your catalog,
so you can easily find your favorites
and edit them and share them with others.