52. USING SMART COLLECTIONS

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WE SPENT SOME time earlier in this book discussing collections and collection sets, but there is another type of collection that I think is absolutely helpful, and that is the Smart Collection.

A Smart Collection is a collection that is built inside your Lightroom catalog that agrees to specific rules that you set. So rather than dragging images into this collection, you set the rules by which images are automatically imported into this collection for you to view. This can be very helpful for monitoring images with specific characteristics in your collection.

Click on the plus sign at the top of the Collections panel ...

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