If you have some free time - maybe because you're stuck at home during the virus outbreak - consider working on keywording photos. Keywording your photos with terms you want to be able to search for them by will allow you to find those photos almost instantly. As an aside, remember, Lightroom Classic users have [...]
Do you spend a lot of time searching through your folders in Lightroom, looking for particular photos? If so, it's time to add keywords to them -- words or phrases that you can then find your photos based on. In this short video tutorial I discuss three easy ways to add keywords: in the Import dialog [...]
Many of you know that I am a fan of adding keywords to photos in Lightroom, so that you can find them quickly later. In this post I will go over some shortcuts to help you add keywords more quickly. With a photo selected (or group of photos selected in Grid view): Ctl/Cmd-K will open up [...]
I wrote a post several months ago on how to organize your Lightroom keywords into keyword hierarchies. This allows you to more easily manage your keywords, and also to efficiently assign the full hierarchy by simply assigning the lowest level keyword. Will D. wrote in to ask how you could assign a hierarchy when importing photos, [...]
As much as I like to come across to you as perfectly organized, I have to admit that I am not always as disciplined as I should be about immediately completing my keywording of photos after I import them into Lightroom. During those organizational spurts that I go through to clean this up, it would be [...]
Have you ever searched for a photo for what seemed like hours, checking in each folder, until you finally just gave up? If so, you have felt the pain and frustration that comes from not having keyworded your photos. Keywording isn't the fun part of working in Lightroom, but if you invest the time to do [...]
If you have been following advice from me and others, you are taking the time to keyword your photos using the Keywording panel, so that you can find them later. Now it is time to organize these keywords. The Keyword List panel, which is below the Keywording panel, shows you all the keywords you have ever [...]
In my first Lightroom Fall Cleaning Post, one of my 9 suggested tasks was deleting unused keywords. In this post I will explain how to clean up duplicate and misspelled keywords. We will use the Keyword List panel, which is below the Keywording panel on the left in Lightroom’s Library module. If you have a [...]
There are many ways to add keywords to images in Lightroom, but one of my favorites is to spray them on with the Painter tool. It is quick, and even fun. In the Library module, click on the paint tool in the toolbar below the grid: In the Painter options bar that appears, choose Keywords from [...]
