- [Instructor] A smart collection is a collection
that automatically populates based on metadata criteria.
Lightroom Classic includes some default smart collections
down here in the Collections panel.
I'll open this set, and we'll see some collections
that already have images in them.
We didn't add these images to the collections.
They were automatically added based on the metadata.
Let's select this colored red collection,
and we'll see the one image that's part of the catalog
that has the red label applied to that.
There's an almost endless number of possibilities
for smart collections.
I'll show you how to create a few based on metadata
that we've already applied to photos in this catalog.
I'll click on the plus next to Collections
in the Collections panel here
and choose Create Smart Collections.
First, we need to give it a name.
So we'll keep this one really simple
and we'll create a smart collection
with the one-star rating.
I'm not going to put it inside of a collection set
because we haven't gotten to that yet.
And then down here is the criteria that it's looking for.
So it's looking for a rating that is...
and these dots represent the stars.
So I'll click that first dot for one star,
create the collection,
and it automatically collected the 15 images in the catalog
that have a one-star rating.
We see over here that there are 15 images,
and if we look real close, we'll see a gear on this.
Let me collapse Smart Collection so we can see this better.
This collection has a gear icon on it,
and these collections don't.
So the gear represents that it's a smart collection.
Now let's create some smart collections
for the family members that we added people keywords to
back in Chapter Four.
We'll create a collection for the mom, Kayla.
Down here, where it says Rating,
we're going to click because we want to find keywords,
and that's hidden under Other Metadata.
So I'll come over here to Keywords,
and we want it to say "keywords contains,"
and the keyword is her name and we'll click Create,
and that created a collection of six images
that have Kayla in them.
Let's create one more of those for the father.
So we'll Create Smart Collection.
We'll name the smart collection Tyrell.
It remembers our last settings, so that's really helpful.
And we'll create one based on his name for the metadata.
And that found the four images that Tyrell is in.
So I'll go ahead and create smart collections
for Nia and Jamal offline to speed up time.
Let's do something a little fancier here
and create a smart collection
that has images of both mom and daughter in them.
So Kayla and Nia.
And down here where it says "keywords contains,"
I'll put both Kayla and Nia's name here
separated by a comma,
but I need to change contains to contains all.
If I leave it at contains,
it will find the images that have Kayla or Nia in them.
If I change it to Contains All,
it'll find the images that only have both of them in.
So this found four images.
One of them is the entire family though,
because both Kayla and Nia are in that photo.
We can edit this to add some criteria to remove this image.
To edit a smart collection, do a right-click on it
or a control-click, and come down to Edit Smart Collection.
And in the Criteria field, we're going to add another rule.
Clicking on the plus will add another rule.
And again, we want to look for keywords.
So I'll click on Rating, come down to Other Metadata,
over to Keywords, and we're going to change this
to doesn't contain so we can remove Tyrell and Jamal
from the collection.
And I'll save that,
and now we have just the images of the mother and daughter.
Editing the criteria like this is the only way
to edit the contents of a smart collection.
Since smart collections automatically populate,
you can't manually remove or add photos to them.
Smart collections are a smart way
to automatically collect your favorite images.