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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 17, 2023 7:39:35 GMT
I am familiar with the standard date search in Lightroom, where you apply successive filters for year, month, weekday and so on, but I want to search for photos between certain dates. For instance, a long winter holiday might well span two years as well as two months.
I use several LR catalogues, named Cyprus, Foreign, Social, Other folks pics and so on, but I have now created a single catalogue spanning all those genres, and want to be able to pull together everybody's pictures from all locations during a certain period. A trivial thing to do in an SQL database, and, after all, a database is just what Lightroom is, but so far I have been unable to find a solution.
If anybody has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate hearing them. For the record, I am using LR 6.14, the last version you could buy, not rent.
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Post by peterob on Jan 17, 2023 9:15:05 GMT
I've got my files on disk stored by date. In the left hand panel I can select more than one year. The normal filter then applies to the folders (and subfolders) selected.
Edit: if you haven't got that then you could explore the smart collection settings. In my Lightroom version there is a preconfigured smart collection called "past month" - opening this to modify it shows that the filter on capture date can be set to include a date range. So you can probably make smart collections to do what you want. I think 6.14 had smart collections - it doesn't run on my computer anymore although I have a licence for it.
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Post by peterba on Jan 17, 2023 9:46:59 GMT
I am familiar with the standard date search in Lightroom, where you apply successive filters for year, month, weekday and so on, but I want to search for photos between certain dates. For instance, a long winter holiday might well span two years as well as two months. Make a Smart Collection. Start by going into the Library module, and click on "All photographs" in the catalog panel. Then go to "New Smart Collection..." (located in the Library menu). You can name your search in the dialogue box that opens, if you wish.
In the first drop-down box, select "Capture Date". In the second drop-down box, select "is in the range".
Fill in the required date-range in the boxes provided (to the right of the drop-down boxes), click on " create", and you've done it.  (I use v6.14, BTW.) |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 17, 2023 14:46:37 GMT
Fantastic - thanks for that! I have never used smart collections before, and it looks like a whole new paradigm to explore. I used to use Capture One for my cataloguing, but found it it lagged behind Lightroom in that respect, although the Capture One demosaicing is the best out there for Sony. As a result I am a bit of a LR newbie. I lost enthusiasm for Capture One when they kept trying to persuade me to jump from version 11 to version 20 for no good reason. There was nothing in between!
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Post by peterob on Jan 17, 2023 15:14:03 GMT
Fantastic - thanks for that! I have never used smart collections before, and it looks like a whole new paradigm to explore. I used to use Capture One for my cataloguing, but found it it lagged behind Lightroom in that respect, although the Capture One demosaicing is the best out there for Sony. As a result I am a bit of a LR newbie. I lost enthusiasm for Capture One when they kept trying to persuade me to jump from version 11 to version 20 for no good reason. There was nothing in between! They are very useful, as are publish collections which also be smart. The “smart” bit is that they auto-add images according to the “smart” criteria. Non-smart collections you have to add images manually. In LR 4 or maybe 5 you could lose collections if you merged catalogues. Whether that is still the case or not I don’t know. I used to set up each year as a separate catalogue but now just have one catalogue for all my photos. When I merged the annual catalogues I lost a Blurb book collection. |
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Post by peterba on Jan 18, 2023 10:59:55 GMT
Fantastic - thanks for that! I have never used smart collections before, and it looks like a whole new paradigm to explore. No problem - glad it was of some use. |
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(I use v6.14, BTW.)