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Problem filtering by color from within a smart collection

Jun 15, 2012 11:57 PM

In LR 4.1 (under Win7 64-bit), I can filter a smart collection by stars. But when I try to filter by color, no image is returned. Maybe this is a limitation of smart collections that I don't know about, but that would be strange since filtering by stars works just fine.

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  • johnbeardy
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    1. johnbeardy,
    Jun 16, 2012 12:08 AM   in reply to DBarman
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    I can't replicate this. Maybe post a screenshot of your smart collection dialog box?

     
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    2. DBarman,
    Jun 16, 2012 12:17 AM   in reply to johnbeardy
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    Sure. Here is the definition.tempLRpost.jpg

     
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  • johnbeardy
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    3. johnbeardy,
    Jun 16, 2012 12:42 AM   in reply to DBarman
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    And you then try to filter by the colour - in Library's Filter Panel?

     
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    4. DBarman,
    Jun 16, 2012 12:45 AM   in reply to johnbeardy
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    That's right. I want all red images or perhaps all non-red images. As a work-around, I just updated the smart collection to have an additional field to filter by red.

     
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  • johnbeardy
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    5. johnbeardy,
    Jun 16, 2012 1:16 AM   in reply to DBarman
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    OK, I have understood the problem but I can't replicate it. Have you done anything like changing the colour's text labels? Metadata > Color Label Set. Not sure that woulod make the difference though.

     
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    6. DBarman,
    Jun 16, 2012 1:23 AM   in reply to johnbeardy
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    I do use a custom set of named labels. But the filtering is by color irregardless of name - and works great outside of collections.

     
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  • Geoff the kiwi
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    7. Geoff the kiwi,
    Jun 16, 2012 3:58 AM   in reply to DBarman
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    Am I missing something here but you don't hav Color Label as a criteria or are meaning filtering within a smart collection by a color label? The second works here.

     
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    8. DBarman,
    Jun 16, 2012 9:06 PM   in reply to Geoff the kiwi
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    Right - I don't have it as a criteria in the screenshot. Once I display the smart collection, filtering works by stars but not by color label. To get around this, I updated the smart collection definition and essentially created two smart collections, one in which I filter for red selected, and the other for no red selected.

     
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