Comments on: Powerful Searching with Lightroom’s Library Filters

By: Synchronized shooting | The Digital Photo Experience

Synchronized shooting | The Digital Photo Experience — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:02:16 +0000

[...] We will deal first with the easier situation, where you were able to take photographs of a clock. Use filters to show all of the images from a single camera in your folder collection. Browse to the image of the clock, select it, and then Select All. After the entire set is selected, [...]

By: Lightroom Week: Filter Friday | The Digital Photo Experience

Lightroom Week: Filter Friday | The Digital Photo Experience — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:01:55 +0000

[...] already written about Lightroom’s Library filters (read the article HERE), so I’m going to talk about a different type of filter for Filter Friday. There is an adjustment [...]

By: Rob Knight

Rob Knight — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:27:43 +0000

Thanks Steve, glad you like it!

A few export plugins add metadata classes to the filter menu. I use these from Jeffrey Friedl: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies

Cheers,

Rob

By: Steve Darden

Steve Darden — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:57:43 +0000

Rob, very clear and concise article, thanks.

How did you add the metadata classes such as “Uploaded to Smugmug”?

By: Rob Knight

Rob Knight — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:56:17 +0000

Sully,
iPhoto allows you to stack photos in groups called “events”. You can mouse over the top photo in an Event and scroll through the photos inside. I’m assuming this is what Matt is referring to. This “visual system” is a far less efficient way to work for me, but everyone works differently.

Cheers,
Rob

By: Sully

Sully — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:23:18 +0000

Please describe “Apple’s visual system” and how it differs from Lightroom’s visual catalog interface. Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about here. I use both programs.

By: MattGranz

MattGranz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:17:30 +0000

I know this will sound lame to the pros out there, but until Lightroom can make a catalog interface that is visual, I will continue to use iPhoto to store my photos and use Lightroom as a tool to edit only. It takes so much less time to browse through my 50k+ photos using Apple’s visual system in their application, and if I so choose to rate the photos or name them, their search will work much as what was described here. The photo editing world needs to take note of the power of visual searches.