1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,306 First I'm going to show you a couple of examples of a regular collection. 2 00:00:06,306 --> 00:00:12,688 So let's say that I downloaded a brand new kit and I can't wait to use it. In fact, I 3 00:00:12,689 --> 00:00:18,744 even have an idea of what photos I want to use it with. Well, if you're not quite 4 00:00:18,744 --> 00:00:25,339 ready to scrap that page yet, you could create a collection and it will be there when 5 00:00:25,340 --> 00:00:31,308 you are ready to create the page. So what I would do is first create a 6 00:00:31,308 --> 00:00:37,156 collection. So I'm going to go into the collections panel. I'll click on the new 7 00:00:37,157 --> 00:00:42,183 collection icon. I'm going to name this collection, 8 00:00:42,183 --> 00:00:49,525 beach page and click OK. Notice how whenever you create a collection, 9 00:00:49,525 --> 00:00:56,692 it's going to go to that collection in the content panel. So I'm going to click the back button 10 00:00:56,693 --> 00:01:02,774 because the kit that I want to use for my beach page is this kit called Ocean Blitz 11 00:01:02,775 --> 00:01:08,965 by Aprilisa. You could click and drag some of these elements or papers into 12 00:01:08,965 --> 00:01:15,872 the collection. But I'm just going to click and drag the preview of the kit into the collection. 13 00:01:15,872 --> 00:01:21,961 So I'll click and drag this preview over here. When my beach page collection is highlighted, 14 00:01:21,962 --> 00:01:28,870 I'll let go. And you can see that the number has changed to one. So I know there's one file in there. 15 00:01:28,871 --> 00:01:35,384 Now I want to add a couple of photos that I know I want to use with this kit. 16 00:01:35,384 --> 00:01:41,786 I'm going to go to my photos tab, which if you remember earlier in my content panel 17 00:01:41,786 --> 00:01:48,043 setup, I always have my photos in the first tab and my kits in the second 18 00:01:48,044 --> 00:01:54,212 tab, and classes in the third tab. You don't have to set yours up this way, but this is the way I always have mine 19 00:01:54,212 --> 00:02:00,700 set up. So I'll just click and drag some photos into my new beach 20 00:02:00,701 --> 00:02:07,124 page collection. I'm going to get that one and then this group of five. 21 00:02:07,125 --> 00:02:13,297 So now if I click on that collection, you will see that it has the kit and 22 00:02:13,297 --> 00:02:20,659 the photos or some of the photos that I would like to use. Well, I'm going 23 00:02:20,659 --> 00:02:27,035 to go back here and now, I am back at my photos, and I'm back at my kits. 24 00:02:27,036 --> 00:02:33,056 And let's say now is the time that I actually want to scrapbook that page. I have time to make my 25 00:02:33,056 --> 00:02:40,675 beach page. So I'm going to go into that collection beach page. 26 00:02:40,675 --> 00:02:47,267 I'll click on my kit tab and I'm going to right-click in Windows or Control-click 27 00:02:47,268 --> 00:02:55,593 on a Mac on this preview image and choose Reveal in Bridge. 28 00:02:55,593 --> 00:03:02,013 There's the kit that I want to use for my page. Now I'm going to activate my 29 00:03:02,013 --> 00:03:08,788 pictures tab in the content panel. Once again, click on the collection. 30 00:03:08,789 --> 00:03:14,853 There's my photos, but I want to see all the photos. So I'll right-click in Windows or Control-click 31 00:03:14,853 --> 00:03:20,990 on a Mac on one of those photos. And again, choose Reveal in Bridge 32 00:03:20,991 --> 00:03:27,133 and now I see all the photos from that collection. I'm ready to make my scrapbook page because 33 00:03:27,133 --> 00:03:33,426 I have my photos and I have the kit that I want to use. And then this is a good example 34 00:03:33,426 --> 00:03:39,577 of when you would want to just make a collection temporary. Once I make my scrapbook page with this kit 35 00:03:39,578 --> 00:03:45,759 and those photos, I'm going to remove it from my collection. So in the collections 36 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,998 panel, I can right-click in Windows or Control-click on a Mac on my Beach page collection and 37 00:03:51,998 --> 00:03:58,265 choose delete. It's going to ask me, "Are you sure?" and I'm going to go ahead and say, 38 00:03:58,266 --> 00:04:04,459 "Yes, I'm sure." and now it's gone. So there's one example of how 39 00:04:04,459 --> 00:04:10,978 you could use a simple collection. Let me give you another one. 40 00:04:10,978 --> 00:04:17,418 How about a collection of papers that you must use? Because you love them 41 00:04:17,418 --> 00:04:23,618 so much. Well, what I would do is I would go into the collections panel. Click on the new 42 00:04:23,619 --> 00:04:30,378 collection icon. Name my new collection must 43 00:04:30,378 --> 00:04:36,903 use papers. My kits tab went to that new collection, 44 00:04:36,904 --> 00:04:43,072 which is currently empty. So I'm going to click on the back icon. And then I'm going to go through some 45 00:04:43,072 --> 00:04:49,250 of my kits and find some papers that I absolutely love. And click and 46 00:04:49,251 --> 00:04:55,413 drag them into my collection. I love almost all of Anita 47 00:04:55,413 --> 00:05:01,500 Design's papers, especially her little patterns of 48 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:08,489 flowers. I'm going to grab some of those. I'll grab some of these 49 00:05:08,489 --> 00:05:14,691 again by Aprilisa. Let me go down here and grab a couple by 50 00:05:14,692 --> 00:05:21,493 Karen Schulz. He has some very pretty ones. 51 00:05:21,493 --> 00:05:28,061 KimB is one of my favorites. You would probably want to actually 52 00:05:28,062 --> 00:05:34,610 go through and click on the paper and press the Space key and see, oh yeah, 53 00:05:34,611 --> 00:05:41,051 I really do love, love, love that paper. And then you would know that you want to add it. I am just randomly choosing 54 00:05:41,051 --> 00:05:48,075 papers to add, one by Kristen Cronin-Barrow. I love all 55 00:05:48,076 --> 00:05:54,132 of her wood papers. Now once I use a paper from a collection, 56 00:05:54,132 --> 00:06:00,135 I can simply delete it just like before. And of course, when I 57 00:06:00,136 --> 00:06:06,172 go to want to use one of these papers, I'm going to want to use the elements and things that go with 58 00:06:06,173 --> 00:06:12,333 it. So I would right click in Windows or control click on a Mac on that particular 59 00:06:12,333 --> 00:06:18,905 paper. Choose reveal in bridge and it's going to show me the kit that it came from. 60 00:06:18,905 --> 00:06:25,129 So there's another great way to use collections. I would probably go ahead and leave this 61 00:06:25,129 --> 00:06:31,301 collection in my collections panel because it's something that I can just keep adding to and 62 00:06:31,301 --> 00:06:38,304 removing from as time goes long and I get new kits and archival old ones. 63 00:06:38,304 --> 00:06:44,655 Okay, so next let's take a look at two examples that would be good for a smart collection, 64 00:06:44,655 --> 00:06:50,892 which is as you've already seen, quite a bit different. Remember that in a smart 65 00:06:50,892 --> 00:06:57,005 collection you don't manually add items to the collection. Instead the collection 66 00:06:57,006 --> 00:07:03,386 goes out and searches for the items for you. So I'm going to return my kit content 67 00:07:03,387 --> 00:07:09,727 tab to kit and then in the collections panel I'm going to click 68 00:07:09,727 --> 00:07:15,755 on the new smart collection icon and in this dialog box I'm going to name 69 00:07:15,756 --> 00:07:21,831 my new smart collection kit previews. I'll set 70 00:07:21,831 --> 00:07:28,130 the source to my kits folder. I want it to look for a file name and I want 71 00:07:28,131 --> 00:07:34,447 that file name to contain the word preview. Now as you might 72 00:07:34,448 --> 00:07:41,649 suspect, this smart collection is only going to be as smart as your organizational 73 00:07:41,649 --> 00:07:48,259 system. So if you haven't renamed any files on your computer to contain 74 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:54,305 the word preview then it's probably not going to find any. Some designers 75 00:07:54,305 --> 00:08:00,360 do actually name their previews with the word preview but quite honestly the words that 76 00:08:00,361 --> 00:08:06,502 they use are all over the board. Personally when I am organizing my kits 77 00:08:06,503 --> 00:08:12,655 I will use the word preview when I rename any previews and that's going 78 00:08:12,656 --> 00:08:19,037 to actually help when my smart collection goes through and finds all of my previews for me. 79 00:08:19,037 --> 00:08:25,225 Now I also know that there are a lot of folders in my stash that have the word preview attached 80 00:08:25,226 --> 00:08:31,578 to those. And I don't want to bring up the folders. I just want to bring up the images. Most of the time 81 00:08:31,578 --> 00:08:37,722 when designers give you previews, those are in the form of a JPEG. So not only am I going to have 82 00:08:37,722 --> 00:08:43,925 this new smart collection search for the word preview but I'm going to have it look 83 00:08:43,926 --> 00:08:51,390 for JPEG images. So I'll scroll up here and choose JPEG. 84 00:08:51,390 --> 00:08:57,527 It doesn't matter if it's a JPEG without an E or a JPEG with an E. Bridge 85 00:08:57,528 --> 00:09:03,226 thinks that those are the same things. Also you should know that these words are 86 00:09:03,227 --> 00:09:10,456 not case sensitive. So if I capitalize the P, I am not going to get any different results. 87 00:09:10,457 --> 00:09:16,781 Now down here in the results, I do want it to match all the criteria. I also want 88 00:09:16,782 --> 00:09:22,713 it to include all the subfolders. And I'm going to go ahead and have it include non-indexed 89 00:09:22,713 --> 00:09:28,871 files. And that way, it'll find all of them on my computer. Remember that a smart collection 90 00:09:28,871 --> 00:09:35,254 doesn't just search now it's going to continue searching as long as it's active. 91 00:09:35,255 --> 00:09:41,627 So next I'll click find, and you can see that it's searching 92 00:09:41,627 --> 00:09:47,988 through all of my folders and looking for the word preview. Even as it 93 00:09:47,988 --> 00:09:55,251 continues searching and indexing my files it has already found 1006 94 00:09:55,252 --> 00:10:00,510 images with the word preview. And if I scroll down here, it looks 95 00:10:00,510 --> 00:10:06,962 like almost all of these, if not all of them, are actually 96 00:10:06,963 --> 00:10:13,345 previews of kits that I own. So this kind of a smart collection 97 00:10:13,346 --> 00:10:19,735 is really good if you want to be able to see what kits you have on your computer. 98 00:10:19,735 --> 00:10:25,942 But again let me stress that these smart collections are only going to be as good as your 99 00:10:25,942 --> 00:10:32,261 organizational system. So let's create one say with some photos. 100 00:10:32,262 --> 00:10:38,650 Going to click on my photos tab in the content panel. It doesn't really matter what tab you have. 101 00:10:38,650 --> 00:10:45,878 I'm just going to try to make sure that if I'm searching for pictures, I'm going to keep it in my pictures tab. 102 00:10:45,878 --> 00:10:52,308 So I'll create another smart collection by going into the collections panel and clicking on the new smart collection 103 00:10:52,308 --> 00:10:59,820 icon. This time I am going to name my collection photos 104 00:10:59,821 --> 00:11:05,535 of Jackson. I wanted to search for photos of Jackson 105 00:11:05,536 --> 00:11:14,575 in my pictures folder. I'll want the file name to include the word Jackson and I don't 106 00:11:14,575 --> 00:11:20,620 really want it to pick up scrapbook pages or folders. Things like that. 107 00:11:20,620 --> 00:11:27,027 So I will set the document type to JPEG because most of my photos of Jackson 108 00:11:27,028 --> 00:11:33,281 are going to be JPEG. I also have some Apple files and some camera 109 00:11:33,282 --> 00:11:39,614 raw files but this is just going to pick up the JPEG files. I'll have it match 110 00:11:39,614 --> 00:11:46,401 all criteria. I'll include subfolders in my pictures folder and I want 111 00:11:46,402 --> 00:11:52,171 to go ahead and include non-indexed files, because this is more collection, I want 112 00:11:52,171 --> 00:11:57,916 it to keep being added to as I take more pictures of Jackson. So next, I'll click 113 00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:04,647 find. and there is my puppy dog. It is searching 114 00:12:04,648 --> 00:12:10,703 for photos of Jackson and it's just going to keep searching and keep searching. 115 00:12:10,703 --> 00:12:16,725 Again, just like the last one, I'll remind you that smart collections are only 116 00:12:16,726 --> 00:12:22,892 as smart as your organizational system. So hopefully that's helped you to get 117 00:12:22,893 --> 00:12:29,119 some ideas about the collections panel and how you might want to use it for yourself. 118 00:12:29,119 --> 00:12:35,251 So I'm going to go ahead and close the collections panel and just so you 119 00:12:35,251 --> 00:12:41,395 know that if you do close the collections panel, it does not remove or delete your 120 00:12:41,396 --> 00:12:47,449 collections. There's still going to be there. If you open that collections panel back up, I'll 121 00:12:47,449 --> 00:12:53,599 see you in the next video. This has been Jen White.