Posts Tagged ‘keyword’
The start of a new year is always a time to think about change and improvement. One common resolution is to get more organized. In this age of digital media it is even more critical that we keep track of our digital assets. Lightroom has many features to help you organize your images.
Organization can come in many forms and at many levels. You can organize your images at the drive level (by using a system of folders, subfolders, and file naming conventions) and/or at the metadata level in Lightroom. You must first decide what organizational workflow fits for you. There are many websites and books devoted to this topic. You should do a little research before embarking on this adventure.
The best website I can recommend to you to delve deeply into industry standard organization practice is dpBestFlow.org from the American Society of Media Photographers and funded by the Library of Congress. The site is full of suggestions and videos. Get ready to spend some time there!
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Sometimes thumbnails are just too small to let you see all the details in an image. If you don’t have a second display and you would like to apply a group of keywords while looking at the Loupe view of an image here’s an easy way.
Begin by setting up your Keyword Shortcut. You find this under the Metadata menu in the Library module. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-Shift-K on a Mac or Ctrl-Alt-Shift-K on a PC. This will present you with a deceptively simple dialog into which you can enter any number of keywords separated by commas.
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I’ll answer the question right up front. Technically, a keyword is always a keyword. Well, I hope you enjoyed this article! Until next time…
If only it was that easy. Lightroom has a very powerful keywording system. With power comes both flexibility and complication. There are types of keywords. Some will not appear in Lightroom’s keyword list but can be included in the image. Others will appear in the list but not be included in the image. Confusing? Yes. Useful? Very! So let’s start at the beginning and look at the three types of keywords Lightroom has.
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Keywords in Lightroom are at the very foundation of organizing your images. If you ever want to find those images again you had better add some keywords now!
Of course, as your collection of images grows, so does your list of keywords. In a previous article I talked about using hierarchies in your keyword list. This helps bring order to your collection and unclutter your list so you can find things. To further help you organize and unclutter, Lightroom supports synonyms. Let’s take a look at this powerful feature.
When you click on the + at the top of the Keyword List panel you are presented with the following dialog:
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One of the most powerful and useful features of Lightroom is its keyword capability. Not only can you create a useful set of keywords but Lightroom allows you to put those keywords into a hierarchical structure. This adds a further level of organization to your keywords. Instead of scrolling through an ever growing list of keywords, you can categorize them in a collapsible structure.
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