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Make a Temporary Photo Review List with Lightroom Quick Collection

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Quick Collection provides a temporary selection workspace in Lightroom Classic. Use it to gather scans for one review session without moving the source files. When the shortlist becomes a lasting project decision, save it in a clearly named collection and record the chosen filenames.

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Define the session's question

Choose a bounded task such as selecting six source scans to discuss with a relative. Keep that purpose in the session notes. Do not mix accepted restorations, unresolved identities, and printing candidates in one unexplained temporary list. Before gathering records, note whether Quick Collection already contains another session's work so you do not silently replace a useful shortlist that someone still needs.

Gather records without relocating files

Adobe documents Quick Collection among Lightroom Classic's collection tools. Add the intended records through the supported collection controls and inspect the resulting set. This groups catalog references; it does not create independent image backups. Check each thumbnail's filename when versions look alike. A temporary selection should help you find the source, not hide which scan supplied the image or encourage an accidental move of the physical storage folder.

Review and promote the useful result

Compare the shortlisted scans at appropriate detail, then record the accepted source IDs. If the set needs to survive beyond this session, save it to a named ordinary collection using the application's documented workflow. Give that collection a task-specific name and note whether it contains sources or derivatives. Verify that another user of the catalog can identify the same records without relying on your remembered selection order.

Clear only the temporary organization

After preserving the result, distinguish removing a record from Quick Collection from deleting it from the catalog or disk. Read the selected command carefully. Keep the original images and archive inventory intact. Export any selected ImgHeal upload copies into their own destination and verify them there. A temporary catalog shortlist is convenient, but its membership alone does not express family consent, historical certainty, or final restoration approval.

Check this workflow before using the result

  • Define the shortlist purpose.
  • Check existing temporary contents.
  • Save lasting decisions to a named collection.

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Questions about this restoration task

Are Quick Collection images extra copies of the files?

Collection membership groups catalog records. It does not itself make a second stored image or a backup of the source.

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