Prepping for the Print

Before heading to the Print module, you first need to identify the photo(s) you want to print. You can do this in a variety of ways, but one of the easiest is to make a collection. Some photographers sort their images into collections and then make subsets inside the collections of images that they want to print. It’s an easy way to organize your images, and because the Collections panel is always available from the Print module, it’s easy to access them as well.

Try a Quick Collection

Creating a print collection isn’t a requirement, however, because you can take any image into the Print module. If an image is visible in the Grid view of the Library, it will be visible in the Filmstrip at the bottom of the Print module. Of course, if you have lots of photos in the catalog, it might be difficult to find the ones you want in the Filmstrip, which is why I like to create a Quick Collection for printing. The Quick Collection isn’t permanent, but it is an easy way to temporarily group photos that I want to work with. Remember that all you need to do to add an image to the Quick Collection is to select it and press the B key.