How can I view the favorites from all event participants together in a single collection?

Question

I just upgraded from Power User to Pro to be able and use Events. They seem nice but too simple. If I have 10 participants choosing their favorite photos, I'd like to be able and see all chosen favorites together. As it stands, I can only look at each participant's favorites individually.

For example, I'd like to make a photo album from this event, based on all chosen favorites. Looking at 10 people's favorites separately seems unnecessarily time-consuming for such a task. Maybe this isn't a common usage scenario, but what workflow would you recommend for achieving my goal? Is there some way I can easily see all favorites together?

The smart gallery rules only offer a few options and nothing I can see there would cater to this.

Answer 1

Here's how to do it.

1. Create a new gallery and then go to the empty gallery page for the new gallery
2. click "display some by making this gallery smart" link
3. in the Smart Gallery page, choose Add New Rule
4. first rule: "Include", "My Photos", "Gallery", {now choose first gallery of event favorites}
5. hit the + sign to add a new rule
6. repeat step #4 for each additional gallery you want to add. For 10 favorites galleries this would take about a minute or so I'd say.

Now you have a single gallery that displays all the favorites from the 10 different galleries.

Answer 2

I know, what you mean about the events - unfortunately as far as I know, there is no way to do it so that you will see all the fav in one gallery. But what you could do is create a gallery and collect virtual copies from all of the favourites photos and throw them in to that gallery. It does require few clicks, but is fast and painless.

Answer 3

If you use Lightroom and sync the galleries you can do the same thing Andy described locally. I have a bunch of favorites from different people for a catalog shoot. I just synched to get all their favorites. I then dragged them all into one collection in Lightroom to create the union set. Also they were then in one location for when I needed to do the editting.