Adobe Lightroom has a very good organisation system. You can upload thousands of photographs and arrange them as you wish, in Lightroom collections.
One area we will look at today is making collections and smart collections. We will discuss what makes these different and when you should use one, and not the other.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom是摄影师的一个很棒的工具。它有一个无意义的结构，在短时间内很容易理解。它使用目录系统，您可以在其中创建新目录以在特定项目上工作。甚至将您的摄影工作分开给您的家庭照片。
The library system can house thousands of images, referencing photographs from your hard drive or multiple external storage systems. You can then post-process these images in the develop module, where you can also apply presets and settings to many images at once.
它快速且易于使用，几乎所有您可能需要从图像中获得辉煌的结果。它可以使用所有类型的摄影;建筑，街道甚至时间失误和高清渲染（HDR）。对于您可能想要做的所有额外的东西，例如添加图形或切割图层，有Adobe Photoshop。
如果您想了解Adobe Lightroom的所有Ins-outs，请参阅我们的Lightroom完整指南这里.
To import a few images into Lightroom to be used in this step-by-step guide, see this article这里.
集合集
什么是集合集
A collection set contains many collections. Simple. Let’s say that you take quite a few landscape photographs, from different places.
创建一个可能有益collection set叫景观，在那里有基于地方的集合。另一个集合集可能是肖像该系列表示照片是谁。
一个集合集是保持你的好方法类型摄影组织。一个集合是一个更好的系统，可以让照片组织有点具体。
So, how to make them?
When you open Adobe Lightroom, you should start in the Library Module, as you can see in the top right. We have four photographs in our catalog that we will focus on.
On the left, you will see a panel where it will have four drop-down menus.
They will say目录，文件夹，集合和出版服务。Right now, only收藏品很重要。
点击on the arrow next to收藏品, and the menu will drop down. Lightroom comes installed with a few collections already placed in the menu.
在此，在我们的示例中我们有以下操作：
- Coloured Red – These are photographs that I gave a red label
- Five Stars – These are photographs I rated as5/5
- Past Month – These are photographs added to Lightroom in the last 30 days
- 最近修改 - 这些是我最近调整的图像
- 视频文件 - 这些是我库中的视频文件
- 没有关键词 - 这些都是没有关键词的照片
Some of the above are things I have personally added to images. The Red label and the 5-star rating are tools you can use to separate and organise your photographs. The others have been added without my personal involvement, but are still very handy.
How to Make a New Collection Set
要制作新的集合集，请单击“+”签名旁边收藏品.老鼠应该说'新系列'如图所示。
*或者你可以去库>新集合集。*
点击后the ‘+’ sign, you will be given an options box. The choices are创造Collection, Create Smart Collection和创造Collection Set.
点击on the third option –创造Collection Set
Here, you will be given a box where you can name theCollection Set.
Rename as you see fit. In this example, I shall name theCollection Set‘Landscapes’.
Press ‘Create’ to make the collection.
如您所见，在“集合”面板下，您现在将看到集合集。图标看起来像一个文件框。
That’s it! You have created aCollection Set. It doesn’t really do anything yet, but it will make more sense after we create the collections and smart collections.
创建集合！
如何创建Lightroom集合
您可以使用四种方法来创建一个集合。无论是谁drag-and-drop, selection of images,图书馆>New Collectionor using theshortcut Ctrl+N.
Drag-and-Drop
根据上面的例子，我们应该已经拥有了Collection Set‘Landscapes’, as you can see below.
点击the ‘+’ symbol next to收藏品.This will bring up the menu we have seen before.
点击on the first option创建集合。
框显示您可以重命名集合的位置。
Here, for this example, I named the folder ‘Mountains’. The reason I chose this, is because Mountains would be a subject within the encompassing Landscape photography our example is based on. Other possibilities could be ‘Landscapes’ as a collection set, and collections called ‘Black and White’ or ‘Northern America’.
点击创造.
The collection will be made, and you will be sent into the folder. Right now, the folder has no images as we have not assigned them to this collection yet.
找到要添加的图像，然后选择适用的图像。这三张图像有山脉。第一个图像没有，所以我不会选择它。
I then drag my images into the collection. If it worked, you will once again be sent into the folder. But this time, you can see just three images, not four.
这种方法通过拖动并将它们放置在您想要的情况下，为您提供了易于移动照片的良好示例。
Selection of Images
The second method for creating a collection is to select the images you want to put into a specific collection.
Select all three images by selecting the first, use Shift+click and select the last image. You could click on each photograph individually by using Ctrl+click.
应该选择所有三个。
虽然所有三个都被选中，请单击它所说的“+”符号New Collection.
选项窗口将打开。
点击on the first option –创建集合。
In the创造Collectionpop-up box, name the collection ‘Mountains’ or as you wish.
The difference here is that you need to check the box that says在集合集中。This means that the collection will itself be placed in the集合集我们以前做过。
如果您只创建了“Landscapes”作为集合集，那么它将自动选择自己。如果您有多个集合集，则需要从弹出菜单中选择。
The other checkbox that needs to be checked is包括所选照片。This tells the collection that the selected images are going there and it will move them automatically.
点击创造.
You will see the added ‘mountains’ collection under your ‘landscapes’ collection set.
图书馆>New Collection
这是一种简单的方法，特别是如果您用于将任务栏在顶部导入/导出。
选择要在集合中放置的图像。
点击on图书馆.
在下拉菜单上，第一个项目将是New Collection.
点击onNew Collection.
* Here, all of the above steps can be completed with the keyboard shortcutctrl + n *
In the创造Collectionpop-up box, name the collection ‘Mountains’ or as you wish.
The difference here is that you need to check the box that says在集合集中。这意味着该系列将在内部集合集我们以前做过。
如果您只创建了“Landscapes”作为集合集，那么它将自动选择自己。如果您有多个集合集，则需要从弹出菜单中进行选择。
The other checkbox you need to check is包括所选照片。This tells the collection that the selected images are going there and it will move them automatically.
点击创造.
You will see the added ‘mountains’ collection under your ‘landscapes’ collection set.
如何创建智能集合
创建智能集合是我在自己的摄影中使用的东西。此系统允许您选择可以在所有文件夹和集合中使用的类别。
A good collection set would be a type or area of photography. A good collection would be a more refined photographic subject within that area of photography. But a good smart collection could be all landscape photographs, excluding mountains but including all images with a green label.
从四张图像开始，我们需要考虑我们想要在我们的智能集合中包含的内容。在这里，我有四个景观图像，其中三个有山脉。
Out of those three, two have water in them. So I will make a smart collection with only the images that are landscapes, with mountains AND water.
在这里我们有四张图像。
点击on the ‘+’ symbol next to收藏品. This can also be accessed with图书馆>新智能集合or right-clicking in the collections panel.
选项窗口将打开。
点击on创建智能集合。
The创造Smart Collectionwindow will open.
For the sake of this example, I will name it ‘Mountains and water’.
确保选择复选框Inside a Collection Set.
Choose ‘Landscapes’, which we made earlier, as the collection. Click创造.
Now, as we didn’t assign anything to find the images, it adds all the images in our library to the smart collection. As we can see, it is 300+ images.
这在这个阶段是正常的。现在我们可以添加关键字。
Adding Keywords
回到四个原始图像。
Select the two photographs that are going into the smart collection. Ctrl+click on each image individually.
Now go over to the关键词panel on the right.
在这里，您可以键入将图像分配给智能集合的关键字。
The keywords could be anything, but it’s useful to use something you can always refer back to. For the sake of this example, I have used mountains and water.
您将注意到我将关键字与逗号分隔。如果您不使用逗号，它将将“山水”作为一个完整的关键字。
回到收藏品左侧的面板。选择您创建的智能集合，Mountains and Water.
右键单击智能集合。这将为您提供弹出选项菜单。
查找并点击编辑智能集合。
TheEdit Smart Collectionbox will open.
要分配关键字“山脉”和“水”，我们需要将它们添加到智能文件夹中。
点击on the first drop-down menu where it says评分.
Locate the tab其他元数据。
As you mouse over it, another drop-down menu will appear. Here you need to locate关键词。
第一个选项卡将从中改变评分to关键词.
Here you need to put one keyword at a time in the text box. Let’s start with ‘mountains’.
重复这个过程进行“水”。首先单击文本框旁边的+签名，这将为您提供另一个地区。
单击+时，它将复制第一个框的搜索参数。要停止发生这种情况，请在精炼参数之前单击+标志。
点击后保存, you should end up in the smart folder with only the two images you have added those specific keywords to.
Conclusion
Smart collections are very versatile. You can use them for looking at many different parameters across all of your folders and keywords, labels and ratings. There is no end to what you can do with them. They can become very complicated, so if you don’t really need to use them, stick to collections and collection sets.
I use the smart folders for my live music photography. When I upload the photographs from a live concert, I might have 200+ images. Straight away I create two smart folders, one called [band name] use and [band name] delete. As I go through the 200+ images, I keep my fingers on the right-arrow key, the letter ‘B’ and the number ‘8’.
If I like an image, I press ‘8’ and that gives the image a green label. If I don’t like an image, I press ‘B’, which adds it to my quick collection for easy deletion later. Out of the 200+ images, I might green label 50 of them in the first edit. I will then further refine this because I only want 15 images as the final product.
This is where the smart folders come into play. The [band name] use has search parametersSource>folder>contains all>band name和标签>是绿色的。The [band name] delete smart folder has the parametersSource>folder>contains all>band name和标签>不是>绿色。这样，所有50个所选图像都在use文件夹和所有其他文件夹中删除文件夹。
From here, it makes it easier for me to see what I like and what I don’t. From here, I can refine the parameters on closer edits.
