How to Use Collections in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use Adobe's Lightroom software. Okay so now, we're going to discuss what you would normally consider to be "Albums" but they're called "Collections" in here. So we're going to scroll over here to our Collections thing on the left-hand side. We're going to click on--I've set up a test gallery. There's no photos in there currently so I'm going to show you how to add them. So--oops, click on another one, just close that. And we'll go up here to my library. I'm going to click on "All photographs." I'm just going to select a few photographs here, like I'll select these five here across the top 'cause they're all buildings here in downtown. I'll drag this right over there into my new gallery I set up for my new collection. And let's see, I'll click on that and you'll see there's my new collection as it sits. And you can go on here, you can edit these, and you can rate them, and you can tag them. You can also use little tools here to flip and rotate them. You can flag them accordingly. You could also stack them at this point. You can sort them however you like. You can export this to a web site, or print this, just not in the Leopard version, currently, you can't. This also is a new way to set up your web galleries too. So you can set this up for your slide show, or for your web galleries, and go straight to your web site with it. And it's also a good way to set up photo albums because if you want to set up like events, like a wedding, or a birthday, or something, you could set them up in here and keep them grouped together nice and organized. So it's a good way of staying on top of all your files too, along with tagging them."