What better way to welcome back Angelique than to publish another of her Photojunction posts? - Ed. I don't think Image Collections and Groups get enough credit from Photojunction users. What better way to speed up your album design than not waiting for all 1100+ images in your Event to load every time you switch back from viewing templates?! Sorting them into Groups and Collections will stop that... There are Image Groups and there are Image Collections. Image Groups can be great for narrowing down your groups of images. They keep your images separated. You could sort by the time of day, making it easy to only look at portraits when you are building a portrait layout, or you could reject images and not have to look at them at all. Once you put an image into a Group it is removed from the default group "unsorted". This is sort of like keeping your images in folders, they can only be in one place. Image Collections are a bit more creative. Danny used to always explain that they were a bit like playlists in iTunes. Not wanting to insult anyone, they are also like playlists on a Zune. :) Your images can be in multiple collections, and they will always stay in the All Images Collection. Here you could sort out favorites, maybes, client picks etc. My favorite image collection of all is the Images Used Collection. Try them out, experiment with what works best for you. I guarantee you'll like it better than always looking through ALL your images throughout your entire design process. Can't wait to hear what works best for you! Angelique