• Next, name your Smart Collection

• Choose whether or not to nest the new Smart Collection inside a Collection Set or not

• Then choose your options, here I have done the following:

  • Match any of the following rules - I will only have one rule here but you could add several

  • Click on Rating to bring up a sub-menu, here I have gone to Develop > Treatment

  • This creates the rule, then you can choose to make more if so desired

• Check that your rule is what you want, add another if necessary

• Click Create

• That's it, your Smart Collection will now be created and any images in your Lightroom database that match the criteria set will be added to it

Here we can see that my black and white images number 694, this is not the true number of such images in my catalog it is only a collection of those that have been converted or marked as a black and white in Adobe Lightroom itself.

Black and white images from other programs or scans for instance, will not appear in this Smart Collection unless they were marked as Black & White in the Treatment section of the Basic Panel in the right hand side panel.

Treatment > Black and White"/>

So now I can find my black and white images, most of them at least, like this one of crashing waves on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way in Dingle, Ireland.

There is some software that can find black and white or monochromatic images but not as part of Adobe Lightroom Classic. To keep up to date as you go, it would be best to mark any scanned images or those from other programs with a keyword that you can then attach to the Smart Collection.

To get one-to-one advice on your post-processing workflow, why not take one of my online photography sessions where we can cover any topic from using Lightroom to using filters for long exposure photography. You don't have to be in Ireland, find out more here.