[Leica] Lightroom 2 - What floats my Boat

[heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> Nice list. I never did manage to figure out in Lightroom 1 what a  
> collection was or why you would want one or what problem it solves  
> or how a quick collection differs from a slow one, or anything else  
> about collections. When I went through the steps to create a  
> collection, I was never sure whether anything had actually happened.
>
> Now that you say that the collection stuff is better, I hope that  
> the documentation has improved enough to help me figure out what a  
> collection is.

A collection is a bucket.  You put stuff in it.

Use itunes?  Its a playlist.

Use a Mac?  Its a bunch of aliases in a folder for quick access.

You can have a collection of images from a trip, an event or a  
collection with related stuff.  Easy access, no duplication of files.