ORGANIZING YOUR PHOTOS, PART 4: SMART COLLECTIONS
I was in a bit of a hurry this morning. I took a shower, got dressed, ate breakfast, threw my dishes in the sink and darted out the door. I left my bed unmade and the dishes for when I got home later in the day, and I’m pretty sure I left on a light or two.
Life does this to us—sometimes we have time to finish what we’ve started, and other times we need to do things piece-by-piece. That’s life when we get busy, and it can impact what we do at home, at work and with our hobbies. And yes, it’s like that with our photo libraries, too. Truth be told, and much to my embarrassment, it seems like it’s always like that with my photo library.
Personally, I often work in stages, piece-by-piece. Sometimes, for example, I’ll import a set of images into Lightroom Classic, do a little flagging and developing, come back the next day and do some more, and even revisit the import a few more times before I’ve moved on to the next shoot.
Staying organized—staying on top of our responsibilities—has ebb and flow to it. Sometimes we have ample time to handle it all, and sometimes we don’t. When it comes to our photo libraries, which can contain tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of images, keeping track of what we’ve done and what
