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5. Organizing and Selecting > Using collections to organize images
Using collections to organize images
Although an organized system of folders provides a good foundation for your photo library, grouping images into collections is a far more efficient and flexible way to classify your images—and offers many more options when you need to access them.
Once you’ve grouped a selection of photos as a collection you can rearrange them in the Grid view or the Filmstrip, changing the order in which they will appear in a presentation or a print layout. Your customized sorting order will be saved with the collection.
A collection is like a virtual folder: a grouping of photos from your library based on your own associations rather than on the actual location of the files. A collection may contain images drawn from any number of separate folders on your hard disk. Inversely, a single master image can be included in any number of collections; the same photo might appear in a collection of images with architectural content and also in a compilation of shots with an Autumn theme; it may be part of a collection you’ve assembled for a client presentation and in another created for a family vacation slideshow. Grouping images as collections in your library doesn’t affect the arrangement of the files and folders on your hard disk, and removing a photo from a c....
