Finding pictures with no keywords?

Is there a way to find all pictures which have NO keywords associated with them?

Shift click all the keywords in the Keyword Tags left Panel of Library. Select All in the grid. Switch to All Photographs veiw in Grid without deselecting and go to Menu/Edit/Invert Selection. You have now selected all images without keywords.
Don
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Thanks for your help. Charles

Yes, yes there is. You need to use the Find function (Ctrl F in Windows).
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Select the Match for "All criteria met".

How do I create a smart album that contains all pictures with no keywords?

Hi,
I have many pictures which currently don't have any keywords at all. Now I want to tag these pictures with keywords. How can I create a smart album for those pictures without any keywords? So that I can then work just on these pictures...
Note that I don't want to find pictures that don't have a specific keyword. I want to find all those pictures which have none keyword at all.
Thanks,
Rainer

Well, there's a way but it's not great...
Start with a smart album at whatever level you want to keyword everything under. Set to search where "rating is greater than or equal to unrated".
Select all images, and apply a keyword like "NeedsKeyword". Yes, even the one with keywords already.
Now change the smart folder - use the "+" menu on the upper right corner of the query box to add an "IPTC" search. In that row use the dropdown by IPTC to find "keywords", then set the one next to it to "is", then type "NeedsKeyword" (or whatever you used) into the text box. Now go up to the top of the query box and change the "Match" dropdown to be "all" instead of "Any".
What we've done here is find all images where the only keyword is "NeedsKeyword", all the ones you've done with keywords already will not appear.
Now, copy these images into an Album (not smart album) for tagging - this is because as soon as you tag an image it will vanish and you may wish to apply more than one tags).
After you are done tagging, you want to remove the tag - this is trickier than you might think, as you need to remove it from images tagged before in addition to the images in the Album you just made.
First, change your smart folder to once again find all images by unchecking the IPTC keyword search. Now you'll see all images - but you're not done yet! You cannot batch undo a keyword in a smart folder, even though you can batch add. Select all of the images and drag into the Album you were using to keyword. Inside an Album the keyword metadata inspector shows only common keywords, NeedsKeyword should be one of them - remove it and it will be gone, and all your images tagged. Now you can remove the Album and the Smart Album you created.
Harder than it needs to be, I'd say - I've submitted feedback you need some way to search for untagged images. Heck, it may already be in 1.1! Or Joe might know of an easier way that has eluded me.
Good luck!

Find images with parent keyword tag only?

I don't know how to describe this problem succinctly, so I don't know how to search for it in the knowledgebase or forums. Can anybody help?
I want a keyword hierarchy with "US" as parent keyword of 50 states name keywords. I have many images with state keywords, but I also have some images that are tagged only with "US" but no state tag, as they are not specific to a state.
How do I *easily* find only the images tagged "US" but with no state tags? Clicking on "US" in the keyword panel shows me all images tagged with "US" and all with state tags, but I just want the ones tagged "US".
I can use "Find" to find "US" images NOT CONTAINING "AL AK AR AS AZ..." by enumerating all 50 states, but that's a terribly awkward way filter out images tagged with state names. I can't see a button or filter that shows only the images with a parent tag but without child tags
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John, this seemed like a great idea. I tried it, and it seemed to work. There was an immediate problem because when there are lots of keywords it means a lot of scrolling and it can be hard to locate rail among rain rate rails etc. because the font is so small. A second problem was that you are forced to mouse scroll - cant page down or up or use home or end. That can be a lot of scrolling. a third problem is that it seems you have to reselect flat view each time.
a more serious problem is that it seems to have stopped working. I'm not quite sure what i did but i have a keyword verb with 5 items and about 1125 child keywords (such as to sing to run etc.) for 1125 photos i click on the verb arrow in the keywords so i bring up 1125 pictures of verbs. now i go to metadata switch to flat view. i can now see "verb" as a keyword in the metadata panel, but when i click on it, nothing happens - I still have 1125 selected photos. Furthermore i cannot click on any other keyword in the metadata panel - that is nothing happens when i click. if I return it to hierarchical view it is fine. then Lightroom 4 64-bit stopped working. when i restarted the program it was still in flat view and i was now able to click on the metadata panel and see appropriate collections. then it stopped working again after i clicked on the keyword panel (but did not actually select anything). in total i have about 3000 keywords and about 100000 photos on local and network drives. it looks to me like flat view has some serious problems, but perhaps its something i am doing....
i also have to say that even if it worked perfectly, i still might prefer other solutions because scrolling up and down for 3000 keywords can be tedious - its difficult to prevent overshooting and undershooting the mark. if the keyword and metadata panels could be undocked that would probably be a big help.

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I can find the A pictures by selecting the A tag. But that will result in all A pictures, including the ones with persons B, C, et cetera. I want the pictures in which A is the sole person. I also would like to find pictures in which A and B are the sole people. Anybody?
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Sorry. I forgot to mention: Elements Organizer 13.
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Finding images with no keywords

Is it possible to search the images stored through Lightroom 1.1 and find images without any keywords?

When it is working. Some have found that particular function to be broken. Seems to be working with Build 352900 (Internationalization Build). Wasn't with 350273.
Don
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Finding pictures with new name?

Hey All, please help.
Problem:
Iphoto will not show my pictures on the big screen. - this symbol show instead.
I have changed the name of the original folder in iphoto libary, I know that's the reason the pictures is not displayd via iphoto but it's allready been done.
Is there a way to help iphoto re-Locate pictures when the name of the original folder in iphoto libary have been changed? - note: the name of the indevidual picture is still as it was originally, only the folder name has been changed.
I changed the name of the folders in iphoto libary to keep track of my pictures. I like my libary now but would like iphoto to be able to show pics aswell.
What is the best way to manege pictures so iphoto and iphoto libary work together?
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nils,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Absolutely put it back as it was. Any changes you make to the folders inside the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder will damage your library.
Is there a way to help iphoto re-Locate pictures when the name of the original folder in iphoto libary have been changed? - note: the name of the indevidual picture is still as it was originally, only the folder name has been changed.
No, there is not. iPhoto creates the folders and places the files into its structure based on its programming. You cannot change anything inside the library folder. It may be helpful for you to see a diagram of the iPhoto 6 Library folder. The structure of the Data and Modified folders should match that of the Originals folder. The most obvious difference is that the Modified folder only contains folders and files that have been modified, and is a subset of the originals folder. The Data folder should match Originals exactly, except that the image files are the small thumbnails created by iPhoto. My thanks go out again to lori_diloreto for posting her diagram.
What is the best way to manege pictures so iphoto and iphoto libary work together?
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If you need to access your photos, there are several ways. You can drag a photo to your desktop and a copy will be created there. You can right-click (control-click) a photo and choose "Show File" from the contextual menu. A Finder window will open with the file selected. You can then Duplicate it and use the duplicate elsewhere. Better still, select all the photos you want and do File > Export > File Export to a desktop folder. This is the best way if you want to post photos to a website, upload for printing, or burn a disc to take to a photo developer. Once finished, you can delete the exports, as your photos remain in the library.
One more note about the library folder: the folders which contain your image files are based on the Film Rolls in iPhoto. You can reorganize these, as long as you do it from inside iPhoto. Select Library from the Source Pane, set View to Film Rolls. You can edit the rolls' titles in the Info Pane in the lower left corner of the iPhoto window. You can move photos between rolls, consolidate, and create new rolls. The date of the film roll (not of the individual photo) determines into which Year folder a roll will be placed in the library folder. You can edit a roll's date, which is completely independent from the date of the photos. Of course, the only organization that really matters is that which you see from within iPhoto.

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How do I find all pictures with no (empty) keyword ?

I have decided to import all my pictures into LightRoom.
A lot of my older pictures are not registered with any keywords :(
- only with IPTC location information.
My plan is to systematic go through all my pictures and add relevant keywords to all pictures - so my old pictures become as searchable as my newest pictures.
Some of my old pictures has keywords some has not.
How do I in Lightroom - find all pictures with no keywords?
I have tried to use the Find tool - but don't see any options to search for "Empty/missing" keywords.
Also I would like to find all pictures with few keywords and in step II add additional keywords to these pictures.
Any ideas on how to make a find all pictures where number of keywords is less than X inside or outside LightRoom.
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> If I find a way of doing this I will repost my findings.
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STEP 1
First, make a copy of your "Lightroom Database.lrdb" file (we'll work
off the copy to be safe)
STEP 2
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to work. Which is a shame, since Access would be the easiest way for
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87946&package_id=91778&release_id=41 4746
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Now an explanation of the data.
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AgCollectionTagKind
AgCopyrightTagKind
AgEnumeratedMetadataTagKind
AgFolderTagKind
AgImportTagKind
AgKeywordTagKind
AgMissingFileTagKind
AgQuickCollectionTagKind
AgSpecialContentOwningTagKind
AgTempImagesTagKind
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I am experiencing difficulties while finding images with keyword tags.
I am using the Organizer of Photoshop Element 12 (French version) and I think I follow the procedure described in “ADOBE ELEMENTS ORGANIZER Help and tutorials” (page 168 in the English version or alternatively 150 in the French one), i.e. :
In the Keyword Tags panel, I click the ">" symbol of the keyword of which I want to know the relevant images
Whatever the search option (Select either Hide Best Match Results Show/Hide Close Match Results, or Show/Hide Results That Do Not Match), I am not able to select and show only the Best Match Results.
Please note also that the Tip
To automatically display close matches after a search, choose Edit > Preferences > General, or Adobe Elements Organizer 11 > Preferences > General, and select Show Closely Matching Sets For Searches, and then click OK.
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Thks
You are right, my problem is to select only the close matches.
Based on your comment, I am afraid it’s one of the recurring problem in PE whatever the version (PE11 or PE12)
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Envoyé : vendredi 30 mai 2014 08:40
À : Michel ROUSSEAU
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Here's what's going on in the catalog you sent me, "Joel & Caitlin's Wedding". There is the keyword "gwenn", which is explicitly assigned to 7 pics. But keyword "schwartz" has a number of synonyms, including "gwenn", and it is assigned to 25 pics. There is no overlap between the two sets of pics.
I discovered these two occurrences by doing Metadata > Export Keywords, opening the exported file in an editor, and then searching for "gwenn". I found two occurrences of "gwenn":
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{gwenn}
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It appears that you are using the synonyms of "schwartz" to represent individual members of the Schwartz family. A better way of representing family relationships is to have a parent keyword "Schwartz", with subkeywords for each family member, e.g. "Gwenn Schwartz", "Joe Schwartz", "Jane Schwartz", etc. Repeating the family name in the subkeywords has a couple of advantages. LR usually only displays the "leaf" name of a keyword, so instead of showing you just "Joe", it will show you "Joe Schwartz", helpful when there are a number of different people whose first name is "Joe". Also, if you ever export your pics to other software, it may not understand the LR hierarchy and won't show the parent keywords, so again it's more informative to see a keyword named "Joe Schwartz" rather than "Joe".

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