Comments on: Lightroom In-Depth: Smart Collections

By: Leota Uppinghouse

Leota Uppinghouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:57:48 +0000

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By: Nir Dremer

Nir Dremer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:42:02 +0000

Carl-Erik,

I think can be achieved by defining a smart collection in which one of the filters is “collection” and it refers to another smart collection. this way you will have nested smart collections.
The only thing that will not be optimal here is the fact that visually the collections tree will not be nested.

I think it should work but I havent tested it.

Nir

By: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:42:42 +0000

Great tip! Exactly what I was looking for.

Wish there was a way of specifying filters on the collection sets as well. Then you could have smart collections in the hierarchy under that further filtering the results.

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By: Nir Dremer

Nir Dremer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:22:22 +0000

Andrew,

it seems like you’re right, I quiet sure there was a reason for this solution (it was the agreed solution for the problem in Lightroom Forums)… it might be that it didnt exist in earlier version… though i’m not sure.

bottom line, you’re right. will update tutorial.

By: Andrew Webb

Andrew Webb — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:22:37 +0000

Actually, you can set a Smart Collection to Keywords>Are Empty. Don’t need the whole aphabet.