Adobe Lightroom has a number of options for you to manage your workflow. One of the best ways is through the use of collections. I was a folder organizer for a number of years even with Lightroom on my machine, but once I understood the value of collections, collection sets and smart collections I never looked back and my folders for organization. This video covers one way that you can use collections to help keep you organized in Lightroom. The best part of collections is that they are easy to update and mange so as my workflow evolves so will my use of collections. I really look forward to continuing to learn more about how people are using this feature of Lightroom to keep their work organized and incorporate the best of that into my own workflows.
Note: This particular workflow has the same collection folders being created over and over again for each shoot or project. Since Lightroom doesn’t have a way to automate the creation of collection folders in a catalog, I created a video that shows how to get around this issue. You can see the video here.
Daniel, thank you very much for posting this video. I have been trying to implement a functional organizational system and I think what you have set up is going to work really well for me. Thank you for sharing!
Daniel, Thank you for sharing your wisdom. My lack of organisation in lightroom has been holding me back from being able to output anything recently. Although I’ve already been using collections, your filing system is going to help me greatly and the beast that is whittling hundreds of photos down will be tamed by the multiple pass ‘tactic’. Sir, you have fine organisational acumen. Many thanks. Jerome
Glad that it helped you out.