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Lightroom: A better search/find in the library module (Library Filter)
I have used for many years iView, and then Expression Media to catalog my files, and I must say that even today I did not find nothing better from this point of view (on Mac).
As the actual one is very limited, it will be very nice to implant some more powerful search/find function in the LR Library module.
Something that allow to make very precise researches like, for example:
"Find all the tif or pdf files with a weight > 1 000 000 bytes, a resolution of 300 dpi, an Adobe RGB profile and 16 bits of depth..."
It will be very nice too to have the possibility to personalize more the info on the preview module (for example somebody could be interested to see the weight in MB of each file, of the embedded color profile, or the resolution, or the depth of the file):

As the actual one is very limited, it will be very nice to implant some more powerful search/find function in the LR Library module.
Something that allow to make very precise researches like, for example:
"Find all the tif or pdf files with a weight > 1 000 000 bytes, a resolution of 300 dpi, an Adobe RGB profile and 16 bits of depth..."

It will be very nice too to have the possibility to personalize more the info on the preview module (for example somebody could be interested to see the weight in MB of each file, of the embedded color profile, or the resolution, or the depth of the file):

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rob_cole_2221866
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10 years ago
But just so you know, you can do *most* of the search part of this now with the help of DevMeta and ExifMeta.
I say "*most*" because plugins do not support numeric metadata comparisons yet (nor date/time...)
PS - I'm not pushing my plugins, I just thought the OP and/or other readers may be interested in a partial interim solution, that's the only reason I bring it up.
Also, in case you didn't know, you can do some limited customization of the grid view now using 'Library View Options" grid view preferences.
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john_beardsworth
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22.5K Points
10 years ago
Take a look at Jeffrey’s “Extended Search” Lightroom Plugin which is specifically designed to fill gaps in Adobe Lightroom's image-search capabilities.
John
PS Rob, you are pushing your plug-ins. You've posted enough about them already.
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snapper_98491
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268 Points
8 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Extra Metadata fields for search/filter.
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son_nguyen_2405250
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1K Points
8 years ago
For example, I like to create a smart collection to contain all images that has been exported to hard drive (or printed).
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Edit History available to use in Smart Collection.
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john_silva_3824723
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166 Points
8 years ago
Rob Cole's plugin DevMeta comes close to providing this ability, but because it relies on image selection to update it's private cache of Lightroom metadata the results are often out of date. I don't blame this on RC's plugin, but rather the fact that Lightroom doesn't expose this information in the Metadata Filtering functionality. To provide a balance between functionality and performance RC's plugin doesn't extract more nuanced information such as tone curve region parameters or individual curve modifications.
In addition, because the API doesn't allow for sufficiently rich metadata comparisons (contains, start and end) it's impossible to adequately work with this expanded metadata.
At a minimum, everything that RC's DevMeta plugin does should be standard in Lightroom. Metadata comparisons must support numeric, boolean, negation and range comparisons. It would be a bonus if word, list, and regex comparisons were also available.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Need better metadata filtering capabilities.
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imanolz
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1.5K Points
8 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
LIGHTROOM: Powered filtering.
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kevin_lozaw
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172 Points
8 years ago
We need to be able to view ONLY the stacked image sets. There seems to be no solution other than 3rd party SW or to label all your stacks with colors or keywords, etc. then filtering.
With all the people using HDR this seems like a logical feature to add immediately
Thank you,
Kevin
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Need filter to view only stacked (and only non- stacked) images.
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angus_jenkinson
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178 Points
8 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Filter or sort by file size.
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walt_sorensen
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948 Points
8 years ago
I would like to filter images by X number of keywords.
It's great to have a collection that tells me that there are no keywords but if I add only one keyword I then have to find the image by that keyword.
As a work flow this "are empty" and "aren't empty" isn't adequate. I want to start with images with no keywords, then work through images with 1 keyword and 2 etc. by using multiple smart collections.
I know this is a database issue because of the data type used for keywords. As such this would require a secondary function to "count" the keywords and store that data so we can easily filter images by the number of keywords.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Better filtering for smart collections - by number of keywords.
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sandra_seilmann
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132 Points
8 years ago
I often want to search for photos containing (for instance) less than 15 keywords.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
LR4 - keyword counter as smart filter.
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John_R_Ellis
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8 years ago
Search, Replace, and Transfer: provides a number of additional criteria to filters and smart-collections, including whether title/headline/event/caption fields are empty, the number of assigned keywords, the month of a photo's date.
http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/...
DevMeta: makes all develop settings, e.g. Luminance or Sharpening Amount, available as filter and smart-collection criteria.
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...
ExifMeta: makes all EXIF and camera-specific metadata available as filter and smart-collection criteria.
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...
Extended Search: provides additional criteria for filtering and smart collections, including crop status, aspect ratio, virtual-copy status, stack status, exposure bias, additional text-matching operators for common text fields.
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-good...
Any Filter: lets you search virtually all fields, metadata, and settings visible in Lightroom and many that aren't (305 in total), with more complete matching operators.
http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/a...
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john_caldwell_4078410
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170 Points
8 years ago
John Caldwell
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Search for "Print" within History States.
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sebastien_barre
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642 Points
8 years ago
- "Capture Month": i.e., a field matching only the month, whatever the day or year is. I try to always keyword a photo with the *name* of the month it was taken in. It makes my life much easier with respect to 3rd party websites and external APIs (faster than looking at the EXIF), and I can look for photos that were taken specifically in autumn for example. Right now, my smart collection rule "No April" that test if a photo needs to be "fixed" because its "Capture Date" is in April but it doesn't have the April keyword is *humongous*; I have to pile "Capture Date is in the range 2011-04-01 to 2011-04-31", "Capture Date is in the range 2010-04-01 to 2010-04-31", "Capture Date is in the range 2009-04-01 to 2009-04-31", etc back to 10 years in the past under a "Any of the following are true". Clumsy, and slow. My "Mislabeled April" is equally fun, the same huge list going back 10 years, and test if any of the keyword contains January, February, March, etc. all months except April.
- Capture Time: same principle, only match against the time, not the date. It could be used with "Capture Month" to create a smart collection of all the photos taken during "Golden hour" for example (around sunset/sunrise).
Thanks
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Add Capture Month and Capture Time to smart collection fields.
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robert_barnett_3894617
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8 years ago
Thanks,
Robert
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Create a Smart Collection to show Stacked Image Collections.
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kevin_lozaw
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172 Points
8 years ago
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