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Lightroom: Lock lib-filtered and smart-collected contents temporarily so photos don't disappear...
I often round up photos to work on using the library filter or a smart collection. Unfortunately, as soon as I start working on them, they often disappear - you know what I'm talking about, right? (criteria that was holding the photo(s) gets cleared).
How about a lock button, such that the contents of the filtered list or smart collection won't change until unlocked.
(at a minimum, add "Empty Collection" to context menu, since my present workaround is to copy from smart collection to dumb (temp/to-do) collection. But, I often want to clear the to-do collection for a new round, without selecting it and thus losing my present selection...)
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How about a lock button, such that the contents of the filtered list or smart collection won't change until unlocked.
(at a minimum, add "Empty Collection" to context menu, since my present workaround is to copy from smart collection to dumb (temp/to-do) collection. But, I often want to clear the to-do collection for a new round, without selecting it and thus losing my present selection...)
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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen
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Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen
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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.
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John_R_Ellis
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The Photoshop Elements Organizer has a nice feature that made it easier to work with ad hoc sets of photos: a browser-like back/forward button that let you undo and redo just the search and navigation criteria. In LR's terms, you could, for example, select a folder subtree as a source, filter by label, then decide to further filter by lens to identify a subset of photos, make an adjustment, then hit "back" to go back to the previous set of photos.
LR captures all user actions with a single undo/redo, but it's dangerous to use for undoing search and navigation, since I'm always afraid I'll undo an image or keywording adjustment. I think it would be better to separate them, with a back/forward button for undo/redo of search and navigation actions.
I tried implementing back/forward as a plugin, but some bugs in the SDK (reported seperately) made it impossible.
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gordon_laqua
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8 years ago
Shouldn't it wait until you have accepted the crop, by hitting enter? is there a parameter to control this?
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom : using 'cropped' as selection criteria in a smart collection.
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don_porter_4726689
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anders_lindgren
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8 years ago
I would like some kind of feature to allow me to temporarily disable the smart collection update. This could be done in a number of ways, for example:
* Simple: Add a "freezed" state to a smart collection -- a hotkey could be used to toggle between the freezed and unfreezed state. In the freezed state, you could be able to add multiple keywords and do other things that otherwise might affect which images are selected.
* Per image: Likewise, but per image. This way you would have select a number of images first and "freeze" them, before adding multiple keywords, and finally unfreeze then. From a user-interface perspective this could be represented using a "pin" of some kind.
* Special key: Selecting keywords while pressing the CMD key (I use a mac) would allow you to select multiple keywords. When the CMD key is released, the smart collection is updated (and, possibly, images are dropped from the smart collection). This is somewhat similar to, say, selecting multiple files in Finder.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Temporarily inhibit updates of smart collections to add multiple keywords.
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kurka666
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Optionally prevent Lightroom from updating curent view in smart collection/filter.
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John_R_Ellis
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Option to 'lock' focus on current photo during Auto-Import
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
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seth_kaye_8lp1lxy8zgocf
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3 years ago
Come on Adobe, I grew up and started paying for this janx, you should do the same and make it worth my money. Nobody wants your crazy cloud crap, we just want to crop pics in simple squares and move along with our day... Please fix these Dumb Collections.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photos...
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rich_353478
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3 years ago
First, I love having the Edit Status filter on bottom so I can quickly find edited or unedited images that are otherwise rated with my star or flag system. Problem is trying to work on an "undedited" image. As soon as you touch any slider, it disappears, as in, it gets edited, so it's no longer there. Is there any way this behavior can be changed? Or do we have to manually turn off the filter before edit???
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Rick
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3 years ago
Hi Rich,
Yeah, that is what it's designed to do I guess but there is a quick way around it. Filter your unedited images then select all and hit the B key to add them to a Quick Collection. You can edit to your heart's content and they won't disappear.
Does that help?
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Lightroom Classic 7.2: edit status filter - image vanishes when you try to edit i....
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marcel_smits_7209713
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2 years ago
If you have a smart collection with:
"Has adjustments" = "false"
"Rating" => 1 star or "Picked" = "flagged"
Then you have all the images selected by culling but don't have any adjustments yet.
When I select one of those images and go to develop and make an adjustment it drops out of the smart collection as expected. But also the develop window losses the image before it is finished.
And yes i can add the images to a non smart collection first but it can't be right that Develop losses the image because it drops from a smart collection.....
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Michael Kern
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2 months ago
I'm using Windows Lightroom Classic version release 10.0. When I go to edit a jpeg or raw file in a smart collection and use auto adjust, it is automatically removed from the collection before I can do anything or see what's done. I am left with no selected photo. I did a workaround by giving them all a temp tag and recreating the criteria for the collection, but it would be a lot easier if it was smart enough not to update the collection immediately.
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