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.
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On May 11, 2023 at 6:20 pm James Lepard wrote:
Very confusing you are back and forth I quit following after a minute
On May 12, 2023 at 2:08 am Carmen K wrote:
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.
On May 12, 2023 at 10:14 am Dylan Kotecki replied:
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
On May 16, 2023 at 12:54 pm Roger Seidule wrote:
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
On May 16, 2023 at 2:17 pm Andreas Pohl wrote:
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
On May 16, 2023 at 2:35 pm Mark Haskell Cooper wrote:
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
On May 16, 2023 at 3:51 pm Nancy Briechle wrote:
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?
On May 16, 2023 at 5:19 pm Sandra Chung wrote:
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 .
On May 17, 2023 at 5:23 pm Steve Housley replied:
If I have the photo in the catalog and several albums, will an edit in any location appear in all locations?
On May 25, 2023 at 9:38 am Ryan Mitchell replied:
Hi Steve,
Yes! The edits will stay with your images across both catalogs and albums.
On May 25, 2023 at 9:37 am Ryan Mitchell replied:
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.
On May 16, 2023 at 8:48 pm Sharon Wisecarver wrote:
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
On May 17, 2023 at 2:46 am Andreas Pohl wrote:
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
On May 17, 2023 at 3:36 pm Walter Holt replied:
Iām guessing that they were Raw & Jpeg pairs.
On May 17, 2023 at 11:37 am Ed Adams wrote:
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..
On May 17, 2023 at 3:37 pm Walter Holt replied:
Agreed
On May 17, 2023 at 7:43 pm Boris Lysynski wrote:
Can you have images in multiple albums or will the last selected album win?
On May 18, 2023 at 11:21 am Harry Cartner wrote:
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?
On May 23, 2023 at 4:49 am Nuno Veloso wrote:
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
On May 23, 2023 at 11:29 am Michelle Pujols wrote:
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.
On May 25, 2023 at 9:30 am hcrespo2021@gmail.com wrote:
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
On June 12, 2023 at 1:16 pm W Dasher wrote:
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!
On June 26, 2023 at 3:40 am Rashmideva Veldhuizen wrote:
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