4. Using Collections for Organization
In the previous chapters I’ve made a big deal about the fact that your photos only ever exist in folders on your hard drive and that those folders form the first level of your organizational system for your photos. Now, let’s take a look at a second level of organization. One significant advantage of using a catalog to manage the data about your photos is that you can use collections (think of them as virtual folders) as a tool for helping you further organize and gain easy access to your photos.
The Case for Collections
Before database-driven programs like Lightroom, you were limited to using folders to group ...
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