Comments on: Introduction to Keywords in Lightroom

By: George

George — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:54:33 +0000

I am haviang a lot of trouble with keywords. Somehow a lot of may photos have the wrond keywords and it appears to be an irreversable mistake. Also What is the sequence for dragging tphotos to a keyword in the list. Some drag and some don’t. . Is there a simple way just to juggle keywords so that they fit the photo. A mess for sure Any help would be appreciated.

By: Mainer82

Mainer82 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:16:38 +0000

I’d rather have a list of my keywords to pick from like Photoshop Elements for Windows Live Photo. Searching is OK, but choosing from a list would be better.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:45:43 +0000

Thanks for this, I must spend a little more time at the import stage to get the keywords in place! As you point out….. saves time later! I’m going to include a location key word for my weddings

By: Tom Wassmer

Tom Wassmer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:15:16 +0000

I just found this post and would really like to try out the excel file Mike Clemens wrote about. I hope he is still around and reads this. You can email it to me at tom@wassmer.org

Thanks a lot in advance!

Tom

By: NotYourAvgJoe

NotYourAvgJoe — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:46:22 +0000

Mike, OR ANYONE WHO CAN ANSWER THIS…

Im wondering about selecting photos in LR from a excel file list.

Basically what I want to do is have LR either place a keyword or mark a photo as a Select or Green if it finds that matching file number in the excel spreadsheet or even a CSV file.

Can this be done????????

MIKES QUOTED POST:
Mike Clemens Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 8:15 am
If anyone is interested I have an Excel spreadsheet for helping to manage Lightroom keywords. It allows you to do spell checks, looks for duplicates and a number of other functions. It works with the exported keyword file that can be created with Lightroom. It also uses ODBC to get the usage counts by keyword from a Lightroom catalog to display in the spreadsheet. I am currently working on a function to load keywords into the spreadsheet directly from the Ligthroom catalog. If you would like a copy of the spreadsheet send me an email. I also have a spreadsheet for analyzing the contents of all of your Lightroom catalogs.

By: Santoyo

Santoyo — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:37:38 +0000

cool picsxx

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:11:59 +0000

UI Suggestion: Would streamline things if I could control-click on several folders in the left side of the Library panel, and then click the checkbox to the left of a keyword in the Keyword List on the right side panel, and have the keyword applied automatically to all photos in those selected folders. However it instead seems to require going into each folder and then Select All photos before applying the keyword. Am I missing an easy workaround?

By: International Parcel

International Parcel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:23:20 +0000

Keyword tagging saves a lot of time! Its amazing how many photographers have thousands of photos and still browse through them manually

By: liisa

liisa — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:32:54 +0000

@chet – Not sure why it’s not working for you, as it should. If you still continue to have problems, you can also do this: Apply the keywords to one photo. Select this photo and all the others you want to apply the keywords to. Choose the “Sync Metadata” button on the bottom of the right panel. Make sure the box next to “Keywords” is checked, and click “Synchronize.”

By: Chet

Chet — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:38:36 +0000

I’m having a little trouble with keywording in Lightroom 2 latest release. I use to be able to select all in Grid mood and assign keywords to all the pictures that are selected but now all it will do is put the keyword on 1 photo and not all of them selected. I looked all over for this and not able t find a fix. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank’s