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How can I create a Lightroom Smart Collection with multiple and/or conditions?

Photography Asked on February 5, 2021

I’m having trouble getting the right pictures in the smart collection based on my conditions…perhaps you can help.

Tags:

Bananas

Oranges

Apples

Pears

Show me all Bananas and Show me all Oranges, but only if either of them contain either Apples or Pears.

Very confusing. I keep getting either too many images, or zero images.

One Answer

Solution

I think I found the correct rules:

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The trick is in creating two subgroups, one for bananas and one for oranges and then creating sub-subgroups for those two subgroups.

You can get subgroups by holding alt (on a Mac) and then clicking the plus sign + (which turns into a pound sign # when holding alt).
This creates a new subrule, allowing you to set the All/Any of the following are true dropdown for that subgroup only.

Importing rules

I've exported the smart collection rules here. To get that back in your LR as a smart collection, follow these steps:

  1. Copy the text from the link into a text file
  2. Change the extension from .txt to .lrsmcol
  3. In LR, right click in the Collections panel and click Import Smart Collection Settings....

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  1. Select the .lrsmcol file from step 2.

This should re-create the smart collection shown in the top screenshot.

Answered by Saaru Lindestøkke on February 5, 2021

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