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Collections are a new feature that was added to CS4. Essentially, they're folders that contain pointers to images that may live in lots of different locations on your computer for external drives. The idea is that for some reason you might want to group these images together for some type of project. Since the collections contain pointers rather than the actual images, they take up very little extra space. There are two types of collections: Manual and Smart. The Manual Collections are collections that you create by dragging images into them. For example, I'm going to add this image to my VTC Collection so I'll click on the thumbnail and drag it over to the VTC Collection. When it's highlighted, I'll let go. Now, if I click on the VTC Collection Folder and scroll down to the bottom, I'll see it's right there. If I want to remove something from a collection, for example this, I can right click on it and choose Remove from Collection. Smart Collections are collections that are automatically filled with images based on criteria that you specify that are updated as you add more images. If you're an Apple Aperture users, you'll recognize that these are very similar to Smart Albums. To begin, we'll come down here and we'll click on the New Smart Collection Icon. Initially we choose where we want Bridge to look for these images. From this drop-down you can see that I can choose broader categories such as my Mac hard drive, computer, Ellen Anon, which is my user name, just from my Desktop, My Pictures area, Documents or a specific folder. I'm going to leave it set to my user name but obviously you can choose anything that's appropriate for any particular Smart Collection. Next you specify the criteria and there are a lot of different kinds of criteria that you can use. You can use the date created for example if you're looking for all the images that you took on a trip or on a specific day or perhaps you want images of a certain type, of a certain subject. Perhaps you would choose keywords and then you would enter the specific keyword. You can specify more than one criteria by clicking the +Radio Button and while we might have the first one set to keyword enters lake, perhaps we will choose a bit depth for the next one and notice the second drop-down menu contains options for contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, equals, does not equal, exists or does not exist. I'm going to put equals 16-bit. We could add further criteria if we wanted or remove them. Then you choose whether Bridge should select the image if any of the above criteria are met. If I choose if any, then Bridge is going to choose any image that has a 16-bit depth or any image that has a keyword of lake. If I choose if all criteria are met, then it will only choose images that have the keyword lake and are 16-bit. If you opt to include non-indexed files, although the search may be slow, it's probably going to be a lot faster than you manually looking for the images yourself. If you combine Smart Collections with good keywording, you can save yourself a lot of time.