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    <title>Selecting Images Not in a Collection</title>
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    <published>2008-01-06T22:32:47-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-01-06T22:36:51-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Gene</name>
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    <category term="Digital Asset Management" />
    <category term="Lightroom" />
    <category term="Photography" />
    <category term="Tips" />
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One of Lightroom&#39;s great features is the ability to put images into collections. An image can appear in several collections so you can build groups of images that make sense to you. If you click on a collection name you can see and select all the images in that collection and create a web gallery or prints.
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But what do you do if you have a large number of images and you need to find out which ones are <strong>not</strong> in a collection?  Here is a step-by-step way to select all your <em>non-collected</em> images.
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While in the Library module, open your Collections panel on the left.
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<img src="/files/u1/colpanel.jpg" width="296" height="227" />
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Now click on the first collections in the list to highlight it.
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<img src="/files/u1/colpanel1.jpg" width="285" height="219" />
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While holding down the shift key click on the last collection in the list. You should now have all your collections selected and all the images in them appear in the grid.
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<img src="/files/u1/colpanelall.jpg" width="290" height="227" />
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To select all these images either press <strong>Control-A</strong> (<strong>Command-A</strong> on the Mac) or go up to the Edit menu and click <strong>Select All</strong>.
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<img src="/files/u1/selectall.jpg" width="262" height="300" />
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What&#39;s that you say? You&#39;re right! Now you have all your <em>collected</em> images selected. Here&#39;s how we get to our goal of select all images <strong>not in a collection</strong>.
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Go to the Library panel and click on <strong>All Photographs</strong>.
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<img src="/files/u1/libpanel.jpg" width="295" height="155" />
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Now the grid shows all your images with the collected ones selected. To finish off got to the edit menu and click <strong>Invert selection</strong>.
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<img src="/files/u1/invert.jpg" width="262" height="300" />
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Viola! Now the grid shows a selection of all your images that are not in any collection!
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<img src="/files/u1/noncollection.jpg" width="500" height="290" />
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