A keyword is now in italics

Folks - Sorry to be peppering the forum with questions, but if the Help menu of Bridge was even halfway helpful I wouldn't have to.
I see that a keyword is currently in Italics. I thought I had deleted it and instead it is not deletable as all the options are grayed out. What does the italics imply, and how can I remove this keyword?
Many thx in advance.

When you see a keyword listed in Italics it means that it is still assigned to at least one image. In other words, you deleted the keyword from the list, not the images to which it was assigned.
The easiest way to find the image or images is to look at the keyword panel on the left side of Bridge (see screenshot). All assigned keywords for the folder of images you're viewing will be listed. Find the unwanted keyword and click on it to filter down to only those images that use that keyword. Select all of them then go back to the right side keyword panel. The unwanted keyword should still be italic, but will contain a checkmark. When you remove the checkmark the keyword is removed from the images. Once it has been removed from your images it should be possible to permanently remove it from the list.

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Keywords in italics

For some reason all of my keywords are now in italics and they don't show up in the keywords panel. I know to fix them I can use the "Make persistent" function, but this only works if the file is selected. This means I would have to select all the files in each folder to allow me to mark all the keywords "Make persistent". With over 15,000 Photos in over 600 Folders this is gonna take a long time. Isn't there a quicker way of doing this?

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If you are on a Mac here is the path for the keyword list:
User (your user name) / library / Application Support / Adobe / Bridge CSxx / inhere is a file called: "Adobe Bridge Keywords.xml"
The moment you start adding a keyword to the list in Bridge Keyword panel it saves it to this file. I believe the mentioned file is already present when starting bridge the first time after install because there is a default keyword list present.
But the safest way is to first export the old file as a back up.
Meanwhile you might want to check the Bridge Scripting Forum, Not sure but maybe they already have created a script for such cases as you, if not they can tell you if it is possible and maybe even provide you with the script so you don't need to do them all manually.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge/bridge_scripting

I can't delete a keyword plus Lightroom now automatically displays keyword folders

Lightroom has suddenly started behaving oddly with regard to keywords and I can't seem to find reference to it anywhere, even if it is "switch" that I have accidentally turned on.
In my set up, I have, for example, the keyword "Portrait" stored under a keyword folder "Photographic styles". Normally only the word "Portrait" appears within the keyword box and that's how I want it, but recently whichever keyword I type, the containing folder pops up alongside it. Note, this isn't during an export of a file, this is actually whilst keyboarding a photograph with the Library section of LR.
Secondly, I can no longer delete a keyword by highlighting it with the keyword box in Library so, unless that word is still within the Recently Used collection of words where I can can un-highlight it, I can't remove a highlight from a photograph at all.
Have I changed a setting by mistake or is there something market going on?
Many thanks in advance for your help,
Martin

Normally only the word "Portrait" appears within the keyword box and that's how I want it, but recently whichever keyword I type, the containing folder pops up alongside it. Note, this isn't during an export of a file, this is actually whilst keyboarding a photograph with the Library section of LR.
It sounds like you created a top-level keyword "Portrait", so now you have two top-level keywords, "Portrait" and "Photographic styles", and you also have a child keyword "Photographic styles > Portrait". (Note that the usual terminology is to call "Photographic sytles" a parent keyword, rather than a folder, since it is also a keyword.)
When your Keyword List has more than one keyword whose leaf names are the same, then LR will include the parent name of the child keyword to remove ambiguity:
To replace the top-level keyword "Portrait" by the child keyword "Photographic styles > Portrait", follow these steps:
1. In the Keyword List panel, hover the mouse on the right edge of the line containing the top-level keyword Portrait, until you see a right arrow appear:
Click on that right arrow, and all the pics containing the top-level "Portrait" will be shown in grid view.
2. Select all those pics by doing Cmd-A (Mac) or Ctrl-A (Windows).
3. In the Keyword List panel, hover the mouse over the left edge of the line containing the child keyword "Photographic styles > Portrait". A check box will appear:
Click on the check box and a checkmark will appear, indicating the child keyword is now assigned to all the selected photos.
4. In the Keyword List, right-click the top-level keyword "Portrait" and select Delete:

Bridge CS4 Search Not Displaying NEF Files + Keyword Problems

Hello, I am hoping someone can be of service to peculiar problem that apparently nobody else has had.
I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
I use Adobe Bridge CS4 to add Keywords to all my photos and edit 14 bit Nikon NEF RAW files. I write the keywords to an .XMP sidecar
file.
Two days I ago I changed something in Preferences->Metadata and the next time I started Bridge CS4 and used the loupe tool on a NEF
file, it took longer than usual for the preview to come up and when it did, it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%. Once the loupe preview showed up, the NEF file had some sort of processing applied to it (it became more contrasted.) This was all within Bridge ant NOT Adobe Camera Raw. I quit the program and the next time I started Bridge, it crashed upon using the loupe tool. I looked up help on Adobe's website and it appeared I had corrupted preferences. Per Adobe's instructions I option clicked at Bridge startup to delete the preferences and purge the cache.
Everything appeared to be normal until today when I searched for a keyword and got 36 random results when I know I have hundreds of
photos tagged with that particular keyword. I started typing in other keywords and getting the same sort of results- very limited numbers of photos I have hundreds of. I always include all subfolders in all searches and used every search method available through Bridge to no avail. The searches always came up with a fraction of the photos I actually have tagged.
I then verified and repaired all disk permissions from the operating system installation CD and Bridge started returning results as
usual. However, when I clicked on an individual file in the Content pane, some of my Keywords started to appear in italics below the rest of my Keyword tree. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why some images will return the Keywords normally and others in italics. Also, sometime the italicized keyword tree will include keywords I edited due to typos and thus no longer existing my normal Keyword tree. I gave the "Make Persistent" command a try. It converts the italics to regular case, but it also doubles the tag so I now have two of that tag (one in the normal keyword tree, and the now converted italics keyword tree.)
Now I'm noticing that all my search results are not including NEF files; just JPEG and the occasional DNG file that I made through Adobe Camera RAW. I'm not sure if this has been the case throughout my problem or if I just noticed it late.
Regarding not displaying NEF files in searches, it appears that it will default to displaying JPEG if it has the option because as of lately I have only been shooting RAW and some of those files are showing up in the still-wonky searches (still displaying random or no photos of keywords.) However, if I manually navigate to a file, I can open and edit NEF files with no problem, they just don't display in any search modes.
Here's two short videos of what happens when I navigate a folder with NEF files by manually searching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
When I click on a NEF file, the one ahead of it in Content view processes into a more contrasty image and the loupe tool previews jump between 100% and 400% and then change to 100% when dragged or they just process themselves right then and there.

I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
Snow Leopard and Bridge CS4 do have some issues. Some have no problems and others have much problems I'm afraid.
I use Adobe Bridge CS4 to add Keywords to all my photos and edit 14 bit Nikon NEF RAW files. I write the keywords to an .XMP sidecar file.
To my knowledge the keywords are written into the XMP Metadata that is saved in the IPTC section of file itself, the XMP data in the sidecar file contain the changes you made in ACR. In other words, the keywords you have added should still be there.
Also see this Knowledge Base article about Keywords:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402660.html
Two days I ago I changed something in Preferences->Metadata and the next time I started Bridge CS4 and used the loupe tool on a NEF file, it took longer than usual for the preview to come up and when it did, it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%.
Changes metadata in prefs only affects the visability of the fields in the metadata panel. put or deselect a checkmark in front of an option will let you see or not see the field in this panel, the actual data and fields ar still in the file.
it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%. Once the loupe preview showed up, the NEF file had some sort of processing applied to it (it became more contrasted.) This was all within Bridge ant NOT Adobe Camera Raw.
You can change the magnification for the loupe to 100 / 200 / 400 and 800 % using the scrollwheel or with loupe active the + and - keys. Bridge shows the settings that you made in ACR. If you have changed the default Camera Raw setting it will also change the thumbs for this file. A thumbs needs some time to be cached. First it shows with a black border around, when first cached it shows the embedded preview and in the second round it renders the ACR settings and High Quality preview (if you have not disabled this setting). Caching needs some time.
Everything appeared to be normal until today when I searched for a keyword and got 36 random results when I know I have hundreds of photos tagged with that particular keyword. I started typing in other keywords and getting the same sort of results- very limited numbers of photos I have hundreds of. I always include all subfolders in all searches and used every search method available through Bridge to no avail. The searches always came up with a fraction of the photos I actually have tagged.
Maybe you need to let the indexing in find do its work again but it might also be a snow leopard issue. Try an other app (Digital Asset Management like Expresion Media or Portfolio) to check about the keywording and find. You can use a trial version for several days. You have several options to use find keywords. In the panel itself, in the filterpanel uner the keyword tab, when clicking on a visible keyword it only shows the files with that keyword or in the menu Edit / find (shortcut cmd + F) explore the options in this menu and also choose include non indexed and let Bridge start to index your files again.
However, when I clicked on an individual file in the Content pane, some of my Keywords started to appear in italics below the rest of my Keyword tree. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why some images will return the Keywords normally and others in italics. Also, sometime the italicized keyword tree will include keywords I edited due to typos and thus no longer existing my normal Keyword tree. I gave the "Make Persistent" command a try. It converts the italics to regular case, but it also doubles the tag so I now have two of that tag (one in the normal keyword tree, and the now converted italics keyword tree.)
Don't know about that.
Here's two short videos of what happens when I navigate a folder with NEF files by manually searching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
When I click on a NEF file, the one ahead of it in Content view processes into a more contrasty image and the loupe tool previews jump between 100% and 400% and then change to 100% when dragged or they just process themselves right then and there.
As you can see the black border around some file that disappear after a while or when you select them they have not been cached. You used purge cache so most of your earlier cached results are gone and need to rebuild.

Easy way to add a single keyword to an image?

I just organized a bunch of photos I took at a birthday party, and ran into some awkwardness when keywording. Hopefully it's just user ignorance, but if not, maybe someone can offer a workaround. I did the import with no keywords, because I wasn't thinking. Once I'd done that, I selected all images in the "Last Import", hit Ctrl-K, and typed Birthday (which is one of my standard keywords). Then I deselected all images and started doing selective keywording. That's where it started getting awkward. I had several shots that had my son in them, so I selected all of them and hit Ctrl-K. This put my cursor in the keyword box in the right-side panel, with Birthday highlighted. I hit <End>, then typed comma and MySonsName. No problem so far. I delselected the shots and selected the ones that had my daughter in them. The right-side keyword panel now showed something like "Birthday*, MySonsName*". I wasn't sure whether I could just add MyDaughtersName to the images without actually adding MySonsName to all selected images (even those without my son in them). That's the awkward part. What I found was that in order to add a single keyword to a bunch of images at once, I had to enable Keyword Stamping and use that. An alternative was to "Set Keyword Shortcut", enter the keyword, select the images I wanted, and then use "K" to add the shortcutted keyword to the images. Is there any way to simply say "add this keyword to all selected images" in one atomic action? In other words, hit a keystroke, type the keyword, hit Enter, and it's now applied to all selected images. -- Rob Freundlich "Males ae biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." - Newt Gingrich "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em." - Tom Paxton

<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > In the right hand keyword pane the list should show something like "birthday, > *sonsname". The * means that the keyword isn't >applied to all the images. > > To add your daughter's name to the selected images, just add it to the end of > the list and press return. As long as you don't >remove the * you won't apply your son's name to all the images. if you do >remove the *, then you will. Sweet. I'm a programmer, so I thought the * meant multiple images, not "not all images", so I didn't even think of trying that. Works like a charm, though. Thanks! -- Rob Freundlich "Males ae biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." - Newt Gingrich "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em." - Tom Paxton

How to change keyword in many pictures at the same time?

I gave a big series of pictures the wrong keywords. Now, I can't figure out how to change them (besides one by one...).
If I select e.g. 10 pictures in Library-mode, how to change keywords on them all at the same time?

Make sure you are in Grid View, primary monitor (if you have two), select 10 pictures and type (or delete) the keywords in the Keywording panel in the left upper corner.
Make sure the Metadata->Show Metadata for Target Photo Only is unchecked in the menus. Otherwise your edits will only apply to the primary selected (most selected) image.

Aperture 3.1 available now!

It would appear that more than a few issues have been resolved in the latest update!
See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2518 for the full release notes.
Aperture 3.1 Release Notes
This update improves overall stability and performance, and addresses compatibility with iLife '11. It also includes a number of specific fixes in the following areas:
Library
Improves performance when opening large libraries.
Fixes an issue that could prevent thumbnails from being properly rendered when reprocessing masters.
Addresses reliability and performance issues when running Repair Database and Rebuild Database operations in Aperture Library First Aid.
Improves reliability of upgrading libraries with images containing Spot & Patch adjustments.
Improves accuracy of the progress bars displayed when updating Vaults.
Adjustments
Addresses performance issues when exporting heavily-adjusted images, particularly those with Highlights & Shadows, Definition, Noise Reduction, Edge Sharpen, Sharpen, Skin Smoothing, or Blur.
Addresses performance when using Core Image filters such as Curves, Levels, and Highlights & Shadows.
Eliminates black “halos” that could appear in areas of extreme luminance in scaled images in the Viewer.
Addresses quality issues with Red Eye correction.
Fixes an issue in the Adjustment Presets editor that could cause the names of adjustments within a preset to temporarily appear blank.
Addresses performance issues with using the Straighten tool on adjusted images.
Straighten grid now appears correctly after applying and resetting a crop.
Fixes issues that could cause Aperture to stop responding or quit unexpectedly when processing an image with Sharpen applied.
Addresses an issue that could reduce image quality on straightened photos.
Fixes an issue that could prevent data from being properly entered into numeric fields in the Adjustments HUD.
Addresses an issue that sometimes prevented the correct cursor from appearing after choosing a Quick Brush
Fixes a problem that caused the Master Aspect Ratio setting to fail if used in combination with the "create new versions when making adjustments" preference.
Fixes an issue that could cause Aperture to stop responding when making adjustments to images in a stack if the “create new versions when making adjustments” option was chosen.
Thumbnails and previews now display correctly for images that are flipped and rotated.
When reprocessing masters, Aperture now displays a progress bar with a count indicating the number of images remaining to be processed.
Addresses performances issues when zooming images to 100%.
Faces
Fixes an issue that could cause some file tiles to be rotated incorrectly.
Addresses performance issues when loading thumbnails in Faces view.
Improves reliability of face detection and naming when working with RAW+JPEG pairs.
Addresses an issue that could result in “blank” face thumbnails in Faces view.
When in Confirm Faces mode, the contextual menu now correctly includes the “Not a face” option.
The Confirm Faces mode can now be updated and refreshed by holding down the Option key while clicking the Done button.
Dragging multiple snapshots on the Faces corkboard now correctly moves all the selected snapshots.
The “include face info in exported photos” option now exports Face names as keywords when exporting masters, writing IPTC to masters, or exporting metadata.
Printing
Fixes an issue that caused the wrong color profile to be used when previewing an image using the Loupe in the Print dialog.
Addresses an issue that could cause a thin black line to appear on the top edge of some prints.
Slideshows
Addresses an issue that could cause photo effects applied to images in slideshows to persist even after being removed.
When exporting a slideshow, the Custom option now includes a Quality pop-up menu in order to control compression quality/size of resulting H.264 or MPEG-4 files.
Fixes a problem that could cause the audio browser to display improperly when creating a slideshow.
Slideshows can now be exported using presets for compatibility with Apple TV and iPad.
Fixes an issue that could produce incorrect results when the start and end positions of a Ken Burns setting were swapped in the slideshow editor.
Adding an inset to a photo in a Classic and Ken Burns slideshow no longer changes the width of a border applied to the same photo.
Choosing "Fit Selected Slides to Main Audio Track" no longer unnecessarily reduces the length of video clips contained within the slideshow.
Deselecting the custom duration set for a select slide by deselecting the “Play slide for” checkbox now correctly returns the slide’s duration to its default value.
Places
Fixes an issue that could produce inaccurate results when assigning photos to a GPS track path.
Metadata Inspector can now display GPS Direction if this data is available in geotagged photos.
Addresses an issue that could prevent imported track paths from appearing in the Tracks & Waypoints menu after restarting the application.
Metadata
The Keyword HUD now displays a count for the number of times each keyword has been used in a library.
Fixes an issue that could cause duplicate keywords to appear after merging a library.
Fixes an issue that could prevent photos with an IPTC Subject Code to export correctly when exporting masters with the “Create IPTC4XMP Sidecar File" option enabled.
Fixes an issue that caused Longitude data to export incorrectly when using the Export > Metadata command.
The Date Created field in IPTC Core can now be activated and set by simply clicking in the field.
Auto-complete of contact info in IPTC Contact fields can now be enabled or disabled in Preferences.
Metadata Inspector now includes a Sharing view which logs when each photo is published to MobileMe, Facebook, or Flickr.
General
The application now displays a progress dialog when opening or switching between libraries.
Fixes an issue that disabled browser scrolling when in Split View with sort and filter controls hidden.
Addresses quality issues in connection with rendering of images scaled to below 100% in the Viewer.
Fixes an issue that could cause the "Loading" indicator in the Viewer to disappear before images were actually loaded.
Activity window can now be opened by pressing Command-Shift-0 (zero).
Photos displayed in the iLife Media Browser on Mac OS X v10.6.x Snow Leopard now retain their sort order from Aperture.
Photos synced to iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV are now sorted in date order by default.
Search
Addresses issues to improve performance when searching libraries containing a large number of keywords.
File Type query now correctly supports search for RAW+JPEG.
Import
Fixes an issue that could prevent all photos and videos from loading in the Import window when importing from iPhone or iPad.
Duplicate detection now correctly works with imported audio and video files.
Images in BMP format can now be imported.
Aperture now correctly rotates square images cropped in-camera from Olympus E-P1 and E-P2 models when imported.
Tethering
Images captured during a tethered session no longer appear in the Import window, unless they are actually stored on the camera's memory card.
Fixes an issue that caused a "Missing" badge to temporarily appear on some images imported via tethering.
Addresses an issue that disabled tethered capture via FireWire on Snow Leopard.
iPhoto Import
Images from an iPhoto library that are imported as referenced files can now be correctly accessed and relinked using the Locate Referenced Files command.
Smart Albums created using Faces in an iPhoto 8 library are now correctly displayed when imported into Aperture.
Portrait-oriented photos contained in an iPhoto 8 library are now correctly rotated when the library is imported into Aperture.
Photos marked as “hidden” in an iPhoto 8 library are now imported with a “rejected” tag when the library is imported into Aperture.
Export
Fixes an issue that could cause images exported as TIFFs to have an incorrect dpi setting.
Addresses issues that could slow performance when exporting a large number of projects as a new library.
Fixes an issue that could cause the "Consolidate masters into exported library" option to not complete when exporting projects to a new library.
Exported libraries now correctly include all pre-defined Library Smart Albums such as “★ ★ ★ ★ ★” and “★ or better.”
Web sharing
Improves memory management when publishing to MobileMe.
Supports multiple MobileMe, Facebook, and Flickr accounts for compatibility with iLife ’11.
Enables publishing to Facebook Wall and Flickr Photostream.
MobileMe, Facebook, and Flickr accounts can now be individually enabled or disabled in each Aperture Library.
Photos downloaded from MobileMe albums are now copied when imported into Aperture projects.
Video
When Aperture attempts to open an unsupported video format, it now correctly prompts you to open the file using QuickTime via Finder.
Fixes an issue that could cause videos to flicker when multiple videos were selected in the Viewer.
Books
Improves scaling of images when photos placed in book layouts have an effective resolution of 110 dpi or less.
Plug-ins
Addresses an issue that could cause export plug-ins to use the wrong Aperture export preset when exporting files.

Oh, baby! This bad boy flies!! Here's what to expect:
I had 40,000 images in Aperture 3 and it was dog slow at everything. I installed 3.1 update today. It took 5 minutes to update the database and then behaved marginally better than before at ASIC library navigation. I was disappointed.
Then I QUIT the app. It took a couple of hours to "update files for sharing" with a counter that went to 110,000 images. So it must have updated every thumbnail and variation of preview. Turned it back on , and BAM. Came up fully in seconds. Paused for 10 seconds ten everything was lickrty split. For the first time ever, I can use the Projects view with all 791 projects and scroll quickly. I even put it in photos modevand whipped thru all 49,000 images!
Haven't done anybprocessing yet, but i'm liking it!!
Jim

Smart Album Keyword Bug

I have a library of 17,440 “Referenced” photos, grouped across multiple projects, none of which contain more than about 400 photos. Prior to importing these images into Aperture, I had already keyworded all of them; the keywords are embedded within the image files.
707 of these images have the keyword “Cruise_Ship” (photos of or on a cruise ship). I then created a smart album with a SINGLE filter, “Keyword = Cruise_Ship”. I have no other filters selected, I have no other keywords selected in the keyword filter, and at the top of the keyword filter, I have selected “Include ALL of the following”.
However, instead of the 707 expected images, this smart album actually displays 5336 images. I have verified, via the metadata browser that in fact most of these images DO NOT contain the keyword “Cruise_Ship”.
So, I tried the following (in order). After each step, I once again checked the contents of the smart album, and in each case it displayed 5336 images instead of the correct 770:
Repair Database
Repair Permissions
Rebuild Database
Reboot Computer
Rebuild Database
As one last attempt, in the Keyword HUD, I renamed the keyword “Cruise_Ship” to “CruiseShip” (no underscore). The HUD correctly indicated that that keyword was used in 707 versions. I then in fact changed the keyword in those versions. I then created a NEW smart album, with the only filter being “Keyword = CruiseShip” (again no underscore) and once again the smart album incorrectly displayed 5336 images.
I am using Aperture 3.0.3.
I’m out of ideas...

I can't say I have the same bug. However, I do have one that might be worth checking on.
On my Aperture 3 here the keyword panel padlock works back to front, i.e. if it's displaying an open padlock icon, the keyword panel is actually locked, rather than unlocked as it should be, and vice versa.
This stumped me for a while, as I also kept finding unauthorised changes happening to my keywords. Now I know to operate the padlock opposite to what I expect, it does stop any unauthorised changes.
(yes, I submitted a bug report).
Cheers.

Keyword FIND problem in CS3 Bridge (Windows XP Professional)

Select a large group of photos. File > File Info. In File Info dialogue box, enter Europe in the keyword field.
Next, select a sub-group, add the keyword as above Italy. For another sub-group add the word France, and for a third sub-group add the word England. Keywords are separated by commas.
Now, browsing all the Europe photos, select a few photos from each of the three countries AS A GROPUP (this is important), and using File Info, keyword all of that group Landscape. You will notice in the File Info dialogue box that the keyword field now says (multiple values) so add a comma, and then the word Landscape.
If you then, again, browse all the Europe photos, and go to Edit > Find > keywords contains Italy AND keywords contains Landscape, and use the criteria Match if ALL criteria are met NO results are returned. (It does work if criteria is ANY criteria are met.)
So how do you find only the images that are Landscapes in Italy?
I notice that if the word Landscape is added only to some images of Italy, then SEPARATELY only added to some images from France, and then SEPARATELY only added to some images from ENGLAND the ALL search criteria does work. But this is pretty lame, and totally defeats the whole idea of batch keywording. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a work-around? Does Adobe know of this issue?

Hey, I screwed up the search for waterfall. I thought I put Costa Rica on a group of files, and then went back and added waterfall. When I searched I got no results. Tried it in Vista search and got no results either. Discovered a DUMB mistake. Had spelled Costa as Costra. When I did a search for Costra Rica and waterfall it gave the correct results.
So bottom line it does work! Sorry for the mixup. Guess that sends you back to the search drawing board. Try same search in another program and see if you get the correct response. If you have Vista the advanced search lets you add keywords separated with semicolon (;).

Keyword problems when editing with CS6

In LR 4.2 and 4.3, when I edit with photoshop and use lightroom corrections, LR creates a new file. I edit it in CS6 and save and close. Back in LR, the file is there, the proper keywords are highlighted and there, but LR cannot find that file. In other words, LR does not recognize the photoshop keywords.
I am using Win 7 64. My catalog has less than 1,000 images. My master catalog has 25,000 with the same problem.
As I understand it, when you edit in Photoshop with LR corrections, LR creates a new file and PS takes in. PS sends info to LR when it is done. If I edit a photo selected with a keyword and I can only see that image, when I get back to LR the screen is grey and no image is found. I can find the photo in the folder.
My workaround is to delete the keyword and reenter. In a small database with few keywords, clunky. In the real world, very difficult.

I have been using lightroom since verison 1 (actually I owned the precursor, I forget the name).
Step by step
1. Select image. Add unique keyword. enter. Keyword is now in the keyword box and highlighted in recent keywords.
2. click on keyword to select all images with that keyword. Highlist the test image.
2. Right click the image.select "edit in ..." "Edit it in CS6..." Then "Edit a copy with lightroom adjustments" (edit a copy- same issue)
3. CS6 opens and the file selected is open. Convert to B&W (anything). Control -s to save. Control - w to close.
4. Goto lightrooom.. New edited image in the folder, but invisible to keyword. The number of images associated with that keyword gets larger by one.
In my system, the key step is step 2. If I add a keyword and edit from the folder everything is fine. If I have selected or filtered by keywords, the edited image does not index for that keyword.
Is this me? I guess my workaround now would be to edit images from the folder view/

Tags are not found when typing a keyword into the location bar

Previously when I typed a tag into the address bar - tagged bookmarks would show up. Now very rarely does this happen and instead search engine search terms show up.
To search for tags/keywords I now have to open the bookmarks and do a search in there. Very inconvenient... it suks big time. WTF happened?
Thanks Joe

I think I am on the way to an answer. I turned off ALL add-ons and tags are now showing up in adress bar searches.
Thanks! :-)

What Are Application Keywords in Snow Leopard?

I recently updated to Snow Leopard, and I've been trying out the expanded syntax coloring. However, I cannot find one example of code colored as an application keyword.
I set the color for application keywords to bright red so it would stand out. I have hundreds of AppleScripts to test, and I have opened about half of them. Not once was any code colored as an application keyword. There were classes, properties, enumerations, parameters, commands, etc., but no application keywords.
So, what are application keywords in Snow Leopard? I thought I knew, but now I have no idea.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Brett

Thanks for the info. The 10.6 changes documentation says:
*Syntax coloring for scripts now has much more detail: commands, parameters, classes, properties, and enumerated values all have their own category now, instead of sharing the “application keywords” category, and may be formatted differently depending on whether they come from an application or a scripting addition.*
Does that mean all application keywords are now in different categories? If so, why is there an application keywords option in the syntax coloring prefs?
Thanks
Brett

Keyword List Cleanup

What is the best way to reorder my failed keyword strategy: In the past I have, for example, entered persons' names as standalone keywords, but now wish the name keywords were child keywords of People. Dragging Mary Smith to People does not retroactively assign the Mary Smith > People heirarchy to the images currently bearing Mark Smith, and the dragging is tedious because my keyword list is so huge.
Is there some means of selecting a keyword and making sit inside of another keyword: Make Mary Smith sit inside of People? We can do the opposite with control click of course, meaning create a keyword inside of a selected keyword, but not the reverse near as I can discern.
Many thanks,
John-

Zyboo,
I tested my keyword hierarchy on a subset of my main catalog before I effectively used it. I exported "representative" photographs from my main catalog (I took about 5% of the photographs) into a test catalog and applied my keyword hierarchy to that test catalog. I then started keywording all the photographs therein, noting where my hierarchy was wrong or needed improving (keywords I hadn't included, keywords I had put at the wrong place in the hierarchy, branches that needed merging - these were the most common problems I encountered). I then updated my Excel file, zapped the test catalog, created a new one with other, different "representative" photographs from my main catalog, and started again. In total I did this four times before I applied the resulting keyword hierarchy to my main catalog. Tedious, but well worth it. Key in this process is to select different "representative" photographs each time.
Hope this helps.

Lost most of my keywords after upgrading to LR 5.5. Any help?

While i was working on LR i noticed that keywords attached to pics in a folder were suddenly absent. I randomly checked other folders and found that MOST keywords were now absent. The keyword list is intact, but images appear not to have any keyword attached, for about 90% of my library.
The most important thing i have done recently is upgrade to LR5.5 today using the standard procedure of the installation package. I believe this is the cause, but i am not 100% sure.
I do have backups of my Catalog, i backup after every use, so i believe there should be a way to retrieve those passwords, but i am a bit fearful of doing missteps that would compromise the recovery.
Do i have to return to LR 5.4 before attempting to open previous catalogs that were created in LR 5.4 ? And how do i do that by the way now that i am on LR 5.5 ? etc.. etc...
If somebody could provide me with some comprehensive guidelines/steps i would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance for your help.
YM

You shouldn't have to use LR 5.4 to check your backup catalogs.
To open a backup catalog file using your operating system, it is probably best to make a copy of it in a different folder, and then double-click on the copy.

Keyword Exchange between Bridge CS2 and Lightroom

Hello,
I was was using bridge CS2 to sort my pics with keywords and EXIF and now switched to lightroom. When I imported the pics everything was OK, data were taken over. When I now use bridge to add new keywords they are not recognized in lightroom and vice versa. Since I want to use both programs in the future how can I "synchronize" data like keywords or EXIF ...
I would be VERY glad if someone could help!!
Kind regards from Germany
Stephan

Yes, but as far as I understand this feature exports/imports all your keywords in a list but not the assingments you made to a photo. For example if I have a photo in bridge with people whose names were newly assigned as keywords. Now I open LR but nothing has changed to the keywords of that picture. So what can I do to synchronize the keywords of the pics (newly assigned/added keywords in bridge to LR or vice versa)?

A keyword is now in italics

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