Collections
In preparation for publishing/distributing your work, please create three “collections” in Lightroom:
- Web Portfolio
- Social Media
You may also want to create collections for special categories like “*****” or “Red label” or “all Tiff images” or “341 photos” or “people”–you can use tags, labels, text, filenames and all sorts of ways to find and elect images for your collections. Note that collections do NOT create new images, they are just aliases that show you the images already in your LR catalogue–basically showing them to you in various groupings” It makes sense then to use metadata in smart ways to organize your photos.
Each collection should have at least 5-7 of your best images at this point, though you may add more by the end of April. To do this, you should be continuing to take photos, practicing with the techniques you’ve learned and experimenting with new techniques.
To create collections, you should use “smart collections” by tagging your photos with keywords line “web” “print” and “social media” OR use colors (6-9), stars (1-5), and then using these tags or or keywords as criteria for your smart collections. That way if you add a new photo to your “Print” collection, you just have to give it the right tag/keyword.
Be sure to put in only your best photos, and continue to capture images if you need more quality images.
To respond to this post just create galleries (one for each LR collection):
- Web Portfolio
- Social Media
And then add exported jpg images of your best photos from each collection into each gallery. You can keep updating this until the end of the semester. I will use it to evaluate your progress over the semester.
If your collections are thin, it’s time to go out and capture more photos!!
See Pete Turner or Nina Hauser for examples