In today's lesson, you'll learn more about using folders in albums to better organize your images. To begin, let's examine a number of ways to view your images to begin sorting them into folders and album. In the add photos panel over here you can choose all photos recently added by date and people. You can also choose by albums and shared out. The sharing panel lets you view photos in albums that you've shared to Adobe portfolio as a web gallery sent to a client, friend or a family member. Next you can choose to view them as a photo grid, a square grid. This view displays flags, star ratings SIG status detail shows a single image and reveals the edit panel. In detail you could go to full screen by tapping the F key or by using the view detail full screen. You can advance or backtrack in an image by using your arrow keys and this view. And then you can exit full screen by hitting the F key again or using the escape key. Now let's create an album. An album is simply a group of images of your choosing. I'll first select a whole bunch of images here. Just grab a few right here, just for this small example. And then I will click on the button here to create an album and I'll call the album cats and it gives me the option to include the four photos I've selected. Here we have an album called cat. If you wish to rename or delete an album right click on its name and you can choose either option. Let's discuss a strategy for deciding what images should be included in an album as opposed to a folder. Albums are really a collection of images from a particular category, such as an event like a birthday party or a concert or any specific subject such as family photos, pets, boats, sunsets, et cetera. Folders should encompass broader categories such as travel, assignment, events with albums inside containing those specific items. Images can be placed in multiple albums. So that's another consideration when creating an album. Lightroom has automatically sorted your images by all photos recently added date and people. If I click on all photos here, we can see a grid of all the photos in my current catalog. I could begin to organize them into album category. So in the search bar at the top I'll type in cat. And lightroom finds any images that either have the keyword cat or Adobe sensei's artificial intelligence thinks is an image of a cat. I can now create an album of cats. Clicking on the first image, I then use the keyboard shortcut command A or control A on the PC to select all the sorted images. Then I'll return to the plus sign to create an album of cat. Since I already created one called cats it asked me to change it to cats two. So I can do it be cats two. It's gonna add 612 photos to my cats two album. If I like to avoid having conflicts going forward I could also delete that original sample album I created. And now I could even rename this to just plain old cat. So now that I have my album called cat I'm gonna create a folder for all these images to go in. I'll click on the plus button there to create a folder and I'll call it home photos. Since I shot these photos at home. Now I have a folder called home photos and I can put my cat images into that folder right there by clicking and dragging that icon and dropping it into that folder. And you see it twirls down and shows the image there. I can also decide on an image that I would want to add as my album cover. So I'll click on this image here. I'll right click, pull down the menu and say set as album cover. And now the icon changes to that image. Since you can add images to multiple albums I'll create another one called Garfield which is the name of one of my cat. So I'll type that in, and within that album it found all the images that currently have that keyword. You can also click on the search window to add other criteria to assert such as album, which if I type in the letter A it will already give me access to other albums that I could search in. If you type in a new search criteria with a colon at the beginning it will add a new search term called a facet. I'll type in the colon first and then type in my other cat's name Onyx there is a search term. This is called a facet. Another way to find images in folders and albums is to use the funnel icon over here, click on that icon and you have other criteria you could search by star rating flags, type image or raw, keyword, camera they were shot with the sync status, sync from lightroom classic nothing meets that criteria syced and backed up. Those are all sync. So there you can see, you can use many criteria to narrow down what images are chosen in this manner. Only a few of the cat images that I put in here have the keyword Garfield. I clearly need to add that keyword to a bunch of other images of Garfield. We'll examine key wording in greater detail later. So here I have these images that have been found using the search criteria. I'm going to select them all and put them into a album called Garfield. So I'll just hold down my shift key here so that they're selected all now or I could have done command or control A to select them all. I will put them into a new album create an album called Garfield, and I even have the option to put it right into the home photos there which is where I'd like to put it. So I'll put it in there. There I have my Garfield images. One other organizational thing you can do at this point since I will eventually have lots of Garfield images in here is I can group this particular shoot into a star. I can right click and pull down in the menu to group them into a star. And this will minimize it to a single image icon here and tell me that there are 18 images in this stack. If I right click on this I can ungroup them at any time to see them all. and there they are. In this lesson you've seen examples of how you can improve the organization of your image catalog with folders and album. Thanks for watching. In the next lesson, we'll examine how you can add titles, captions, location info, and even change the capture date if needed.
