Assigning keywords to multiple photographs

Hello. I can't seem to assign keywords to selected batches of pictures, the way it's supposed to work by dragging and dropping. Each time only the one picture is tagged, not the whole selection. This happens in the light table, and in the view windows as well. Any ideas?

Is it possible that you have turned on "Primary Only"? This is a feature which lets you apply metadata to only the primary image among multiple selected images.
Toggle this feature from the icon in the Control Strip (bottom border)

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Aperture will not assign keywords to multiple photos

Recently I have not been able to assign keywords to multiple photos simultaneously. I also have the same problem when I try to copy adjustments and stamp to multiple photos. Only the one with the main selection is processed. Is this a bug in the newest Aperture (3.4.5)?
Edit:
Sorry, I found the solution and wasn't able to delete the question: The problem was that the Primary Only button was active.
Message was edited by: Ernst Vikne

You may have the "Primary Only" flag set. Then keywords, ratings, etc will only be applied to the primary selection. Turn it off in Aperture's "Edit" menu: Edit > Primary Only or press the button with the framed "1".
Regards
Léonie
You may want to have a look at this User Tip: Keywords or ratings are applied only to one of the selected images - why?

Assign Keyword to multiple images

The book which comes with the Aperture3 software says that you can assign a keyword to multiple images without having to assign it individually to each image. Using the keyword HUD I cannot get it to assign a keyword to all images in a stack or images which have been group selected. Also I have looked at the manual on line and it says one can do this. How do they do it using the split view browser and stacks or grouping?

Interesting. I just tried it again, on Aperture Version 3.0.3 running on a 2008 MacBook Pro and OS 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard). I stacked two masters then selected both within the stack, both appeared in the viewer window. I dragged a keyword from the Keyword Hud over one of the pictures in the viewer window. When the photo border changed to green, I let go of the mouse button and Aperture applied the keyword to both masters. Next I selected one photo, then made an adjustment which created a stack of the master and the version. I repeated the procedure and Aperture applied the keyword to both the version and the master.
OH! Do you have "stack picks only" checked in the Photo Filter? That would prevent the keyword from being applied to the lower photos in the stacks.
By the way, the photos don't have to be stacked to apply keywords, other effects, to multiples. They merely have to be selected.

What's The Best Way to Assign Keywords to Multiple Images?

I'm finally starting to organize my photos with keywords, but something about the way it works in LR2 is driving me batty.
I came back from a concert Saturday night with over 1,000 photos (double coverage by me and my wife). I'm trying to use keywords to designate the 14 different performers who appeared on the stage at different times during the evening, when there could be anywhere from 1 to 7 performers on the stage at the same time.
Now, it seems to me the easiest way to assign these keywords would be:
1) select a series of photos in which one or more performers appear
2) in either the "keyword suggestions" or "keyword set" panel, click on the keyword "buttons" I've already created from the performers names.
But this doesn't always work. I note that when I highlight a number of photos, ONE is more brightly highlighted than the others, and sometimes, that's the ONLY one that gets the keywords I just clicked on. Apparently, that one image is more "selected" than the others in the series I've highlighted.
It would not be quite so infuriating if that approach didn't work at all, but the oddity seems to be that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and I don't know what I'm doing different when it does or doesn't work.
What does work universally is to to the "Keyword List" panel and type in the name I need, and then right click when the name comes up and select "add keyword to selected photos." That seems to work every time.
Or, I can type "Click here to add keywords," type in the name I need, and hit return twice. That assigns the keyword to all the selected images. But then I have to do it again for every performer that appears in that series of frames.
Like I say, the easiest scenario would be the 1-2 step I outlined above, but I cant seem to get that to work all the time.
Anybody know the trick to getting that 1-2 scenario to work every time?
Thanks,
--PS

Oh, wow. I have exactly the same problem of LR not assigning keywords to all my selected images.
I will try the grid, select the grid and not the filmstrip, and look for the current image metadata checkbox as well.
BTW, Adobe told me to delete the preferences file, which I did.
They told me to optomize the catalog, which I did.
And, lastly they told me to create a new catalog and import all the data from my old catalog, which I did not do.
Stand by ...
Wow, that is it. You folks solved my problem.
Library Mode, select in the grid OR filmstrip (yep-but harder to see in the filmstrip anyway),
COULD NOT FIND-look for the current image metadata checkbox as well.
Michael

IPhoto: Assigning Keywords to Multiple Images

Is there a way to assign a keyword to, say, 20 images all at the same time? I can only see a way to do them one by one.

Thank you very much

HOw to assign keyword to a group of photos

Apple Pro training series advises to assign keywords to multiple photos, to simply use CMD A to select all photos, then drag
keyword over one of the photos and it should be assigned to all. When I do that the keyword is only assigned to the
one photo that it is dragged to.. not all. How do I do that?
thanks

Turn off "Primary Only". The tuturial seems designed to trip users up at this point.
Since you are working your way through it, I leave figuring out how to do it as an exercise (but you might examine the Tool Strip).
Cheers. Welcome to Aperture-land.

Adding/Deleting keywords for multiple images

Well, I'm finally paying the price for bad keyword management and I'm trying to clean up my nightmare of a system now but running into trouble.
I'm using Lightroom 3.2.
My workflow follows one of two types:
1) I'm shooting something specific (soccer games) and I import the shots and immediately assign the appropriate keywords (soccer, which kid it is, which tournament it is)
2) I've taken shots of multiple events/subjects and I haven't had time to download and organize. I will then import with a 'file later' tag so I can easily search and keyword them later and then re-use the card.
Well 'file later' is now about 3000 images! Doh!
I'm going through and properly assigning them but I'm having a lot of trouble with what I *think* should work in Lightroom.
There are several things here:
First, if I choose the 'File Later' keyword, it will pull up the metadata filters options on the top of the grid view. No matter what I do, I can't make it go away. If I do get it to go away, I wind up viewing ALL my pictures which is not what I want.
Second, if I choose multiple pictures by ctrl-clicking or shift-clicking, It appears I can assign a keyword to multiple shots. I cannot REMOVE a keyword from multiple shots. Lightroom seems to only want to remove the keyword from one picture at a time even if they are all selected.
Third, the painter tool does not work...at all. Enabling it and then selecting and applying or removing does nothing.
So, what am I looking for here?
Organizing for these should be pretty easy since most are in blocks and I can apply the same keywords quickly. However, removing the keywords one at a time is a huge pain.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

First, if I choose the 'File Later' keyword, it will pull up the metadata filters options on the top of the grid view. No matter what I do, I can't make it go away. If I do get it to go away, I wind up viewing ALL my pictures which is not what I want.
This is the filter dialog - of course if you close it you turn back to All Photographs. Try creating a Smart Collection based on your File Later keyword - this collection will automatically populate all your images that have that particular keyword. Once you have keyworded the pictures from e.g. one particular shot, just remove the File Later-KW and those images will disappear from the collection.
Second, if I choose multiple pictures by ctrl-clicking or shift-clicking, It appears I can assign a keyword to multiple shots. I cannot REMOVE a keyword from multiple shots. Lightroom seems to only want to remove the keyword from one picture at a time even if they are all selected.
I'm not sure why you can't remove keywords from multiple images - it just works fine here by selecting multiple images and delete the keyword.
Most of the times I use the Keyword List to assign/delete keywords because in my opinion it is the easiest way - I just browse thru my list or filter for a particular kw and tick the box on the left.
Creating a hierarchical keyword list can further simplify your work. For example the location: organize the final keyword xyz-Soccer Stadium into other keywords like Town>County>State>Country>Continent>Places, then you only have to tick the last keyword xyz-Soccer Stadium and with that assign all of those keywords in the hierarchy (I know thats kind of a complicated explanation...but I suggest you play around a bit and then you will get the full picture ).

Bridge not assigning keywords to .ai files

My problem is this, I converted a couple ov Vectors to .ai to assign keywords to it. But Bridge keeps telling me that it can't write Metadata to the files.
Can anyone please help with this?
I've got all the updates for Bridge and I've tried clearing the Cache. Still no luck

One thing that I've noticed is common in Bridge (I'm on CS6 at this point - same deal) is that files which should accept key words often do not. My workaround has been to right click the offending file and select Purge Cache for Selection. This can be done with multiple files. In most cases, once this is done, the offending file will accept keywords and Metadata changes.

Adding keywords to multiple images - Help!

I'm getting really frustrated. I've been a long time iPhoto user, but my husband bought me Aperture and I'm trying to move to it. . . .anyway, I'm trying to add keywords to some of my pictures (I miss my "hot keys"). I have the Keyword Controls open on the bottom of the split view window and I've set up a variety of keyword preset lists. . . Anyway, the problem that I am having is when I select multiple images to apply a keyword to, it is only applying the keyword to the "primary" (meaning the boldly outlined in white) image - even though the other images as selected (outlined in a less bold white boarder) the keywords are not assigned to them. It's like I have to add the keywords to each image one at a time. I've looked at a bunch of the material online and it's clear to me that you are SUPPOSED to be able to add keywords to multiple images at a time. Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for the tip, it was really bugging me! Pitty you cant just click on the Keyword in the display rather than have to drag and drop it! I know you can use the control bar but for each item here I think a max of 12 or so are displayed, when you use hundreds of keyword to catalog medical images its not very handy, iphoto was much easier in this regard!
cheers
Rper

Is it possible to remove a keyword from multiple images?

There has to be some way to delete a keyword from multiple images, yet I can't figure it out. I know you can replace keywords via lift and stamp, but sometimes I may need to remove a keyword while leaving other different keywords in other images. If this cannot currently be done it needs to be fixed.

1. select the images you want to remove a keyword from
2. in the keyword field at the bottom type in the keyword you want to remove
3. hold down shift, and hit enter
Instead of assigning the keyword to the selected images, the keyword will be removed.

Does anyone know how to associate user-assigned keywords with apps so that they can be searched/ filtered based on the keywords?

I have a large number of apps that exceed the capacity of my multiple idevices and I want to be able to create app lists (similar to playlists) so I can change what goes onto my idevices quickly depending on what is going on. Individually picking apps in itunes each time is time-consuming so I was wondering if there was a way to associate tags or user-assigned keywords to apps so they could be filtered/ searched to select the ones I want.

I have a large number of apps that exceed the capacity of my multiple idevices and I want to be able to create app lists (similar to playlists) so I can change what goes onto my idevices quickly depending on what is going on. Individually picking apps in itunes each time is time-consuming so I was wondering if there was a way to associate tags or user-assigned keywords to apps so they could be filtered/ searched to select the ones I want.

Filter on keyword across multiple "folders"

It is clear that I can filter for specified keyword within a "folder."
This does not provide much convenience, it seems to me. I want to locate images with a given keyword across a large number of "folders" including even my entire C: drive. I must be missing something, because there is little advantage if filtering for a specified keyword is limited to what you might see in the thumbnails on the Bridge screen.
I nearly always store my images by date, with the "folder" name being the date taken. I plan to use Bridge to assign multiple keywords to all my images stored on my computer, a tedious chore, but one that I can do a bit at one time; say one day's shooting per day until I eventually catch up with several years of shooting.
There must be some functionality that I am ignorant of which allows the user to filter on all, repeat all, images tagged, for example, "Sarah." I have tried searching the FAQs and have failed to find the answer. I have tried highlighting a couple of "folders" but the "filter" functionality is not available as far as I can tell. Please tell me what I must do to exploit the Filter functionality across multiple "folders."

I much appreciate the very useful information from Sergei Urlof, and I am using it. But I could use even more information, to speed up what I am trying to do. I want to know some efficient work flow procedures for using the keyword functionality.
I want to tag every appropriate image file that I have in storage with the name of the persons pictured. I see that when I open a folder in Bridge, and follow the File/File Info route, I can assign a keyword to the file, or more keywords if I use a comma. I see that the keywords I assign are shown on the bottom right side of screen. I see that if I open a different folder, the keywords are carried over, and I can locate/highlight other files with a particular person pictured, and can assign a keyword by clicking in the box by the keyword. This saves me the steps involved in File/File Info and typing in a keyword that is already in the list shown bottom right.
HOWEVER, as soon as I close that particular Bridge session, I lose that list, or at least so it seems to me. How do I recover the list of all keywords that I have assigned previously and make them available for clicking, for use with a folder newly opened? I can imagine using variations of names for a given person as keywords, and that would lead to poor filtering. That is, I do not see a keyword-name for an image of a certain person, so I type in a name in the File/File Info Keyword box. But it is a slight variant of one I have used before; e.g., Victoria instead of Vicki. I would not use a variant if the list of previously assigned keywords were displayed.
So, how do I bring up the previously assigned keywords, for use in a new Bridge session?

OBIEE 11g issue - same user assigned to the multiple application role

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How do you assign keywords in iMovie 10.0.7?

I cannot find how to assign keywords in iMovie 10.0.7.

This reply doesn't reflect the iMovie '11 interface. This looks like the older versions, which allowed the user to toggle Advanced Tools. iMovie '11 does not have this option, and there are no Inspect or Keyword buttons available. I've searched all over YouTube and Google trying to find an answer to what seems to be a common and simple problem. Was the keyword capability removed from iMovie 10.0.x versions?

Is there any way to assign keywords to clips in the new iMovie?

You can search for keywords that were assigned to clips in the old iMovie 11, but I can't find how to assign keywords to clips in this new version. Other than this, I'm finding all the old features and am loving the new layout and speed of imports with this new version!

This is a huge mistake in their release of iMovie. I was using keywords to categorize all of my son's soccer team videos by player. This REALLY distroy's all of my past content categorization. I hope Apple makes an update soon to FIX this as it should be considered a defect in my opinion (whether it was intentional or not).
What is funny is that I can do a search on the old video content by my old keywords and it still finds the video clips. It just won't let me add new keywords to new video going forward.

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