Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Chapter 14. Making Collections

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

—PABLO PICASSO

Although I appreciate having a well-defined organizational structure for my images on the hard drive and find star rating an excellent method for culling my images so that I can quickly see the best from a shoot, I find Lightroom’s collections to be the key to organizing my images into projects, whether they’re books, portfolios, or slideshows. Using collections, you can assemble an unlimited number of groups of images without ever moving or duplicating the originals on the hard drive.

When you create a collection using Lightroom’s Collections panel, the thumbnails that you see in the collection are pointers to the original ...