Improved keywording

Hi,
These are some requests/suggestions:
Please include a spell check for keywords (and other fields such as captions, etc.) on Windows format,
Please improve the keyword manager to make it easier to edit and add keywords, including:
ability to recognize an existing keyword's location in a heirachy when importing new keywords from an external file, (and if the keyword appears more than once, Lightroom could ask for confirmation, e.g. if "blue" appears under "color" and "mood", Lightoom will ask if whether the new keyword is under "color" or "mood" or both, or to create a new keyword. (similar to Timothy Armes' Keyword Master Plugin)
ability to recognise existing synonyms when importing new keywords and ask for confirmation whether to apply main keyword or create a new one
improve sorting capability (perhaps a separate window? for keyword management, with a structure similar to OS file management systems, i.e. two panes, left one with higher level keywords, right panel with contents of selected keyword)
increase number of words that can be held in a keyword set (just a nice-to have)
Spell checker (for all metadata!)
Thanks!
Andy

Andy,
I agree with all your suggestions for Keywords as well as adding additional search capabilities as specified many times on this forum.
As far as the spell-check is concerned, I have seen no indication that it is coming anytime soon for the PC so I use a utility downloaded from "spellcheckanywhere.com".  Not sure if it is feasible to use for Keywords (as far as consuming time) as it requires a pop-up window to do the check - but for captions I find it works quite well.  I assigned F12 as the hotkey.  I have no affiliation with this utility other than being a user.  It is not optimal, but it might be a short-term solution to your need.  I am sure there are other equally qualified utilities as well.
Jeff

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  • Request: improve "keyword suggestions"

    More than anything I use LR to help make sure that I can keep my pictures systematically in order and with relevant keywords.
    One thing I have never understood is why there is no filter to avoid duplicating "suggested" keywords, that already are shown in the existing keyword set.
    This only "crowds out" space for useful suggestions that are not immidiately available in the current keyword set. And I cannot see, why anyone would like to have a keyword shown twice (both as a "suggested keyword" and in the current keyword set) in stead of having more (=a better) suggested keywords.
    It should be really, really, easy to fix. And i am sure people would find it very useful in their daily work if they use lots of keywords. I sometimes have almost all the keywords in my existing set duplicated as "suggested" keywords, which is unproductive.

    LR2 has two boxes for entering keywords: the old big multi-line one, and a smaller one below it. Keyword suggesting, as well as the Ctrl+K shortcut, moved to the new smaller box.
    They could have left keyword suggesting in the old big box too (I still prefer it - probably got used), but for some reason they didn't.

  • Improved Keyword Searching Needed

    One frustration I have with Lightroom is with the difficulty it has with dealing with spaces in keywords when trying to do searches.  For example, if I have images with the keyword 'University of Michigan' (no primes around the keyword), I'm unable to find images with just the keyword 'University of Michigan'.  Instead, I'll get things with University, Michigan, etc.  The only solution at the present time seems to be to use underscores or something equivalent in multi-word keywords, but this seems silly and ugly.  I should either be able to search for a quoted keyword and have the search complete, or Lightroom should use the comma as a keyword separator in the Find dialogs in the same manner as it is used when adding keywords.  My main reason for using Lightroom was to be able to use its database-like features for keywording and finding images based on keywords (and other attributes).  Dealing with multi-word keywords should be a simple fix and it would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks!
    James Howe

    I'm trying to build a smart collection so I'm limited to searching for 'Contains', 'Contains Words', 'Contains All', 'Start With', 'Ends With'.  No matter which option I select, I end up getting images which don't match.  I only want to see images which have the specific keyword 'University of Michigan' (a multi-word keyword without the primes).  However, the search treats this as a search for images with the individual keywords of 'University' 'of' and 'Michigan' and therefore finds images which not only have the keyword 'University of Michigan', but also any image which has keywords of 'University', 'of' and 'Michigan' (the results vary depending on which search criteria I pick).  The important thing is that there is no query that I can come up with which *only* finds those images with the specific, single keyword of 'University of Michigan'.  If I change the keyword to be 'University_of_Michigan', I can find that quite easily.  The problem is with the inconsistent way that Lightroom treats spaces in keywords.  If I go to the keywords entry field, I can enter something like:
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  • 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.
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    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.
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  • Keyword Manager in iPhoto

    Since the sad demise of Bullstorm's Keyword Manager I have resisted upgrading to iPhoto11.
    I have 100s of keywords and without Keyword Manager it's not possible to do a proper keyword search. When ask for a search it produces a windowlet with 4 columns and if you have too many keywords it simply scrolls off the top of the parent window and you can't scroll it back. I've confirmed in the local Apple store this behaviour is still the same in iPhoto11.
    Keyword Manager solved this as well as adding loads of other features that should be there as standard anyway .. boolean searches, hierarchical keywords, sensible allocation of keywords to a group of photos etc.
    I'm now getting a new iMac and iPhoto11 comes pre-installed. I believe I can de-install iPhoto 11 and install iPhoto9 but at some point it's going to stop working.
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    Is Aperture any better?
    Is there a photo organiser out there that just does organising, I use Photoshop Elements and don't really want to learn a new editor. Oh and Elements Organizer 11 is poor and very restrictive. iPhoto would be great if it improved keyword handling and better support for RAW.
    Anyone got any views?
    Thanks
    Jack

    I'm with you on Keyword Manager, and no there is no alternative or replacement.
    The keyword handling in Aperture is better - nested keywords and so on. With a 3rd party app like Typinator you can add large numbers of keywords quite quickly, and you can also use drag and drop.
    You can check out the Aperture manual here
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Aperture_User_Manual.pdf
    Couple of added advantages: It's much more powerful than iPhoto and you can still use Elements in association with it, but you'll probably end up using it less.
    There's a simple upgrade path from iPhoto to Aperture. Just open the iPhoto Library with the iPhoto 11 on your machine. This will update the library. Now Aperture can use that selfsame library.
    Not sure what you mean by "better support for Raw"? Aperture supports the same cameras but with more fine control - in fact, iirc, there is better fine control on 11 than 9 too.
    Not the solution for all ills, mind, and there is a learning curve, but Aperture is a good progression from iPhoto.
    Regards
    TD

  • Keywords: On and Off

    I need to use a very large list of keywords (10,000) for some jobs, and not for others. On those others, having a large number of words constantly auto-completing when I don't want to use them is a real pain. So, how about keyword sets that can be de-activated without losing them? Part of making a really great database is making it as easy to use as possible (but no easier, of course).
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    I'd like to see a much larger or user settable keyword set size. 9 keywords in the set is almost useless. I find I would need more like 30-40 keywords available to be able to easily click and assign them. Having only 9 means that I often - in fact, almost always have to type them in. I find that the "smart-completion" when typing often chooses the wrong one and when you have a two-word keyword the space will cause it to select rather than be a part of the keyword. Two-word keywords are often useful for using place names as a keyword. Anyway, the basic idea I think that would improve keywording the most is to be able to have that keyword list on the right side panel expand to be most of the side. I work my way through images doing keywording and it would be very easy to have a large set of words I could just click to tag the image.

  • 1.01 update = please share what you find is fixed / not =

    the bullets apple posted as the update are likely just some of the fixes.
    please share your personal experiences of what you have found is
    - fixed
    - new/improved
    - just enhanced performance
    and of course what is not fixed.
    keep it simple please so others can benefit at a glance
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    g5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

    Improved:
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    Projects with keywords come up faster than 1.0.
    Not fixed:
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    Keyword list seems to be updated each time you "touch" query HUD and this can take the long time (15-20 secs) if you happen to have the scope of entire library. Within single project (for example 100-200 pics and anything less) this wait is not visible.
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  • Keyword Bugs and Some Keywording Improvement / Feature Suggestions

    Tagging Bugs and Some Improvement / Feature Suggestions
    Please excuse where I should use the word Tag or Keyword or vice versa!
    1.       BUG?    If a tag synonym is added or changed then all affected photos should be marked for re-publish.  I do not think this currently happens.   Should this possibly be considered a bug?
    2.       BUG?    When viewing a smart collection in a Flickr publish service and a new tag is added to a photo it is correctly moved to the “requires re-publish” section.   However … the thumb selection in the grid moves to the next photo, the loop view remains on the photo just tagged and the key wording still reflects the just tagged photo.    The selection shown in the grid appears to be wrong.      When working quickly this can result in tagging errors as the user looking on the grid believes he is working on the next highlighted photo in the grid.      This is surely a bug?
    3.       BUG?      A minor point and I realise this is probably not the correct way to do things … but a double word synonym entered with quotes for example “Ice Climbing” will create two tags “Ice” and “Climbing” at the flicker end of things.    Removal of this synonym and forcing a re-publish does not delete these two tags at the flicker end of things.    I may have miss-understood, but perhaps it is best for LR not to allow quoted tags? 
    4.       SUGGESTION      An easier and more powerful way to review tagging of current photos should be provided whereby it is possible to clearly see the current tagging of a photo and have immediate access to the keyword list at the same time to make corrections.    Having both the Keywording and Keyword List panels open in Library mode results in a lot of up and down scrolling for me and is a slightly inelegant UI in my opinion.   I would suggest it should at very least be possible to have the tags viewable in Loop info as an option - so long as no truncation is made and all tags visible.    Ideally a better way should be sought.
    5.       SUGGESTION      It would be very useful when reviewing tagging to select to show all photos in the currently selected folder or set which do not contain the selected tag.    Note, I don’t think this can be easily achieved by using a keyword filter and selecting all keywords and unselecting the tag of interest as the pictures may have many tags.    The same might be performed by textual based searches but this is inelegant and its slowness precludes a browsing approach.     For example – for me it would be useful to look at all my mountain shots in a trip which have not been tagged with “Glacier” and it will be immediately visually apparent where I need to make tagging corrections.    I would suggest a “Not” checkbox is made available on the top of each column in the library filter – this may also provide a great deal of power for other situations.
    6.       SUGGESTION      It would be useful to allow a means of showing all pictures with a certain tag but which have not been tagged yet with any children of said tag.   For example all pictures tagged with Glacier which I have not yet named the glacier by introducing a relevant child tag or selecting an existing child tag.    A similar situation occurs for wildlife and potentially many other scenarios … I would like to use a tag “Butterfly” which I can quickly use on my first pass… and then do the identification and child tagging on a second pass using appropriate filtering.   This allows for a step wise or “top down” approach to tag classifying things in a workflow.    I appreciate this can be achieved (as I do now) by using a child tag called “Unnamed butterfly” or “Unnamed Glacier” but it seems more powerful, elegant and generically applicable to be able to filter on a “not tagged with a child” basis.
    I apologise if I have missed the point on some existing functionality on any of these points and welcome any suggestions.

    This is a great post.
    I couldn't have written it myself better.
    I'm also in dying need of Korean input as I can't communicate with my Korean friends.
    But I second every point.
    I hope the tech teams are reading this.

  • Keywording improvements?

    Im manually going through all my keywords and checking to make sure they will export since there was some problem in the past that checked them all to not be included on export. Very fun! thanks.
    I have some sugestions for improvment in the keyword section.
    1.  When adding synonyms if you add a coma after the last word you get an error message that says "a non-empty word must be included."  Very intutive message.  How about just remov the extra coma or somthing.
    2.  When I find a misspelled word and try to correct it I get the message that the word alreadey exist.  (because it does)  there should be some way to correct the misspelled word and merge it(the images tagged with it) to the correct word
    Spell check and a thausarus to add synonyms would be very handy.

    Hi bradengunem,
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    Select all images labelled with the mis-spelled KW, apply the correct one to all of them as well,
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    For general handling I consider Thomas' suggestion excellent - just might need to be tweaked if you have several thousands of KWs.
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  • Improving Search for Keywords in NI Example Finder

    Search for Keywords is presently limited to logical "OR" search. It would highly profit from logical "AND" Search.

    Thinking out of the box here...
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  • Keyword Handling Needs Improvement - Too Easy To Create A Mess That's Too Hard To Clean Up

    Presently, its easy to assign keywords and use them (other than  "improper" handling of spaces I mean), - almost too easy. - easy to  create a keyword mess.
    Although I'm sure I haven't  given anywhere near as much thought to the subject as some people have,  here are my first thoughts at some features that would help:
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    - Detection of first use:
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    - Detection of similarities:
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    - Detection of synonyms: If I enter a keyword that's already a synonym of another keyword, I usually don't want to create a new keyword.
    - Dictionaries: Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I import "Controlled  Vocabulary" all the keywords will just be mixed in with whatever already  exists. Likewise if I import photos from some other photographer, I now  have their keywording paradigm all mixed in too. I'd like to have a Personal dictionary, and a "Controlled Vocabulary dictionary, and "From Imported Photos" dictionaries... And, I'd like to be able to set a preferred dictionary, such that when entering a keyword that's not in the preferred dictionary, I would be offered an opportunity to consolidate, or create a new dictionary, or add to existing dictionary...
    - Because keyword search engines differ in the way they handle plurals, I would think the ability to automatically add a plural, and maybe even common mispellings as synonyms would be helpful as well.
    - Better Tools for consolidation and re-organization would also be greatly beneficial and appreciated.
    I will no doubt think of other things, but this should be enough to kick off this thread.
    Rob

    I couldn't wait: Keyword Consolidator.
    R

  • Keyword entry interface improvements needed

    1. Enable an optional full screen view of the entire keyword list, with expand/collapse function for the hierarchies, preferably with the expanded terms in a separate column adjoining the top level terms.
    2. Make the keyword list stay in the spot the keyworder is working on, rather than jumping back to the top after a CR -- result is a timewaster of having to scroll down to hunt for the spot you were using.
    3. Make keyword imports from Adobe Bridge go into the same hierarchy when it finds the same word, rather than starting a new top level term.
    4. Make the grayed-out terms brighter -- they are next to invisible.
    5. Make 2d level and lower terms when attached to an image automatically include the terms in the higher levels, not just when there is a duplicate term. Correct manual.

    I'm going to go on a tangent here and say that we need better ways of quickly selecting and identifying specific keywords to apply to images. Exactly what that should look like could take different forms.

  • How Can I Improve the Readability of the Keyword List?

    I've often wondered if you guys actually test this stuff in real-world conditions.
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  • Lightroom Upgrade at a client - sucess? - keyword problem deal breaker

    Hi
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    - Performance improvements: nothing visible
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    Kind regards
    Thomas

    W.W. Webster wrote:
    tgutgu wrote:
    Just a small report, on how upgrading a client's LR 2 catalog went ...
    So, please Adobe, get keyword completion fixed for keywords with spaces immediately !!! This is what professionals need. A catalog without reliable DAM features, renders the catalog concept to a great extend (sic) useless. Please listen!
    I just report my experience I had, with a photgrapher (sic), who needs a (sic) proper asset management.
    So the over-riding conclusion from your experience with just one photographer is that Lightroom is 'useless', and this compels you to demand, in bold type, that Adobe must listen?
    That Lightroom has issues and areas for ongoing development is obvious, and Adobe won't dispute this.  But rants like yours add nothing and are unhelpful.  Julie's response is extremely tactful and far more moderate than your post deserves.
    Dear Mr. Webster
    I think when you post, you should definitely change your tone. Julie simply answered my original post by acknowledging the problem, your accusation that I did not use appropriate "netiquette" is ridiculous. Posts like yours are a real problem of this forum.
    I simply gave a user story example to show that not for everybody the shiny advertised new features provide real benefits and that paying attention to a thorough implementation of features can be equally important. I think Julie has recognized this. And the issue is nothing for ongoing developments. Lightroom supports keywords with spaces, so it has to be done consequently. Keywording is essential for DAM. If keywording gets too tedious or leads to wrong keyword assignments, then DAM is really pointless.
    The intention of my post was to point Adobe to an apparently small problem, which has quite a big impact to people, who depend on good DAM features. The issue is nothing new, existed since the first release of Lightroom, but nothing was done about it, unfortunately. Now that Lightroom addressed keywords with spaces even with a new preference setting, it was fair to assume, that they had done something about it with care. This isn't so obviously. The issue was discussed in previous threads, but did not get any visible notice from Adobe. I am glad that this has changed now with Julie's post.
    In no way did I say that Lightroom is useless or even that I regard it to be so. I merely said that the catalog concept is to a great extend (not completely) useless, if its implementation is sloppy. DAM starts with data entry and only after doing this, you can use it to your benefit. Therefore it has to be efficient, which currently is not. Lightroom is criticized by a large number of users that it is forcing them into a catalog system instead of just providing access to the file system. Long existing bugs like this, likely proves them right in their view.
    The competition (I mean complete workflow solutions) is not really better than Lightroom with respect to DAM features, however, my take is, that the developers should be equally ambitious with the quality of the catalog system as they are with IQ, especially if the achievements in IQ are apparently less relevant to owners of high end camera systems. (I could be wrong with the last statement, but it would be interesting to hear if others have similar observations).
    Kind regards
    Thomas
    Thomas

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