How to Use Albums to Instantly Find Your Photos
- ON1 Photo RAW
- 16:19
- Beginner
Are you looking for a more efficient way to organize and locate your photos in ON1 Photo RAW? In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to utilize albums to categorize and quickly access specific collections of images. Albums can be an important feature of photo organization, whether you’re a professional photographer seeking to optimize your workflow or a casual hobbyist aiming to find your favorite snapshots easily. With albums, you can quickly group and retrieve specific sets of images, regardless of their storage location.
24 Comments
James LepardMay 11, 2023
Very confusing you are back and forth I quit following after a minute
Carmen KMay 12, 2023
Hi Dylan,
Will smart albums come back to Photo Raw?
I wish to be able to do the following:
1 – Create a normal project album with all the photo selects placed into it manually. Include some nested albums if needed within it. Like you show in the video.
2 – Create one or more smart albums that will only pull specific images from that project album. Allow the smart albums to be nested within the normal project album to keep it all together for that specific project.
Thank you for your reply.
Dylan KoteckiMay 12, 2023
Hey Carmen! Smart Albums are still a capability in Photo RAW – you can access them through the My Catalogs tab inside of Browse. Keep in mind that they only work with your cataloged folders.
Cheers!
Dylan
Roger SeiduleMay 16, 2023
You mentioned copy and paste photos as a way to add them to an album. Does this create a new copy of the photo, or just a pointer to the original photo. Thanks
Andreas PohlMay 16, 2023
Hey Dylan, allowing smart albums to be nested within the normal project album to keep it all together for that specific project is something I wish for as well.
Also it would be good to be able to sort albums manually.
And an album that shows Recent Imports (like in Capture One) would be very helpful to get a summarize of recently imported photos in order to sort them into albums.
I hope that ON1 will revise the digital asset management (DAM) in PhotoRaw with the next major update. As for now it seems not to be competitive to software like Lightroom or Capture One.
If it becomes only half as good as the image processing options would already help many users.
Cheers
Andy
Mark Haskell CooperMay 16, 2023
Hi Dylan,
Thank you for this excellent video guide on albums. I will now be able to make better use of this feature. It is always a learning curve – but that is part of the fun.
Cheers
Mark
Nancy BriechleMay 16, 2023
If you change the location of a photo on your computer that you have put in an album in Photo Raw will the photo still be there?
Sandra ChungMay 16, 2023
Forgive me if I’m missing something there, but pre-On1, I used to always create a folder for a photo session subject, under main tolder (example J:/Photography/Birds 2013/Wattlebirds/ or Broome 2018/Kevin Smith/) I made my own albums and ‘cataloged’ the images, each album with RAW/Resized subfolders.
Does this mean I have to manually add each one to On1 instead of just browser (which shows my own pre-On1 album trees) ? This is close to 20 years worth .
Steve HousleyMay 17, 2023
If I have the photo in the catalog and several albums, will an edit in any location appear in all locations?
Ryan MitchellMay 25, 2023
Hi Steve,
Yes! The edits will stay with your images across both catalogs and albums.
Ryan MitchellMay 25, 2023
You won’t need to manually add each folder as an album, you can continue to use Browse to view your current folder structure as you described. Albums can be used as an extra layer of organization within Browse that works across multiple folders or locations.
Sharon WisecarverMay 16, 2023
Thank you for the thorough explanation of albums and how to put them to good use. I’m just wondering if the photos we add to an album are just thumbnails or are they actually a duplication (along with their file size) in the album.
Thank you, Sharon
Andreas PohlMay 17, 2023
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for the video!
When you moved some photos into an Album at 4m58s, you had 8 images selected but the cursor shows 16 while drag&drop.
Could you please explain why. Is there more moved in the background?
Cheers,
Andy
Walter HoltMay 17, 2023
Iām guessing that they were Raw & Jpeg pairs.
Ed AdamsMay 17, 2023
one of the nice features in Lightroom Classic is the ability to make an album the target album. Then you can select an image or images , do a key stroke and they are put in the target album. This would be nice to have..
Walter HoltMay 17, 2023
Agreed
Boris LysynskiMay 17, 2023
Can you have images in multiple albums or will the last selected album win?
Harry CartnerMay 18, 2023
I’m watching Dylan’s video on Albums and noticed in my ON1 I don’t have a main Albums folder under Browse but when I go to Cataloged Folder I have Smart Albums.
Also, with Smart Albums I can’t seem to add to it when I do a Search. I can only create a new Smart Album. Which I do, then I drag & drop the images from the new Smart Album and then delete the Album.
Am I missing something here?
Nuno VelosoMay 23, 2023
Folder organization is sooooo much better than in LR. One of the main reasons I made the change and will never be coming back š
Michelle PujolsMay 23, 2023
Great video. I wanted to nest some albums. I never could get it to work. I think I tried everything but drag and drop. I seem to miss the simple things. Thanks. I always learn something from your videos.
hcrespo2021@gmail.comMay 25, 2023
What is the difference between “File Folders” and “Albums” I have my entire photo collection categorized under File Folders, will I be duplicating my files if I create Albums, also to me it appears that I can do the same searching and locating with File Folders.
I am confused, please help
W DasherJune 12, 2023
I am not using On1 to manage my but it looks like I should start. This would save me a lot of time search or collecting photos from disassociated projects. Thanks for a great into to this feature!
Rashmideva VeldhuizenJune 26, 2023
Thanks for your clear video.
Is it possible to save an album with photos as (for example) a folder ‘Selection My Tawny Owls’.
So that I save these photos, and delete the photos in the other folders with photos about Tawny Owls?
Regards,
Rashmideva
IAN PALMERNovember 6, 2024
A very well structured video and for a beginner trying to find a good way of organising photographs in folders within ON1, nicely presented and concise.
I did find though, that I had to be precise in how I removed photos or albums from the album folder. It was fine if I used the remove from album, but I had to be mindful that if I used delete inadvertently, it deleted them from my hard drive as well, such that they photos would be lost if I hadn’t backed them up to a different drive and therefore able to retrieve and reinstall them.
That said, a great video, thanks.
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