Keyword consolidation

Can anyone offer any help, suggestions, erm... plugins?
Over the last few years I've built myself an extensive keyword hierarchy in Lightroom - several thousand keywords in it - works well for me. Since LR3 is able to handle larger catalogs, I've recently imported my pre-lightroom images. Import worked fine, the only problem is these images were keyworded prior to having a keyword hierarchy. This means that all the keywords have appeared at the top-level of the hierarchy. I now have literally thousands of duplicate keywords in my catalog. And in for reasons I won't bore you with several hundred triplicate keywords, all of which need to be consolodated. In fact there are so may duplicates at the top level that I the list is longer than lightroom can display in the panel.
Because the 'duplicates' are at the top level finding the duplicates is easy. Here's the steps I'm taking to consolodate the keywords.....
1. look at duplicate keyword in the top level.
2. Click the arrow to display the images assigned to the duplicate keyword
3. type the keyword name into the "filter keywords" box
4. locate the master keyword from the list of filtered keywords (this only works providing the duplicate keyword isn't a synonym as there is a current bug that prevents synonyms from being filtered this way - that bug really isn't helping this!).
5. Drag the images from the grid onto the master keyword.
6. Delete the duplicate keyword from the top level
As an estimate I have at least 3000 duplicates/triplicates that I need to consolodate. Providing I don't mis-click or mis-type the above process takes about 70secs per consolodation. By my estimate that would take 60 hours of clicking and typing to complete the consolodation.
Can anyone suggest any ways to speed this up? I've looked at Rob Coles keyword consolidator, but that just tells me what needs consolodating and doesn't actually do any of the work. (In my case I already know which keywords need consolodating - it is manually doing the work that is the problem.
Thanks,
Ian

3bells wrote:
I'm wondering if your KeywordConsolidator would work with Lightroom 4?
In a word: Yes , but please contact me directly if any issues spring up - thanks:
PM: http://forums.adobe.com/people/areohbee
or: http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ContactMe
R

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Keyword Search Question

Newbie Alert:
I've searched the forum and can't find a solution to a problem I've encountered. I just moved from Bridge to LR3 for managing my images. In Bridge I developed the bad habit of explicitly adding keywords to my images all the way to the parent (a setting in bridge). For example, the keyword hierarchy for one of my images in Bridge might look like.
Colorado [x]
        Denver [x]
                DMNS [x]
Now that I am using LR3, I don't want Denver or Colorado explicitly selected when I choose "DMNS". instead I would like:
Colorado [-]
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                DMNS [x]
Where Denver and Colorado are implicitly selected. When I do a search for "Colorado" LR seems to return all images that are either implicitly or explicitly tagged with that keyword. I need to select only the images where "Colorado" is explicitly selected.
How can I do a search to only find the images explicitly tagged "Colorado"? This seems also related to another "newbie" question I have. Bridge allowed for doing queries based on multiple keywords using a basic set of conditionals. In LR3, "Find" doesn't appear to provide that functionality. How can I do find an image where more than one keyword exists but they are not within the same containing keyword? Or, using this example, find all images that have the keyword "Colorado" but do not include "DMNS"?
Thank you.

I pretty much consolidated all my keywords once, then never again. It was a PITA even with help from KeywordConsolidator.
Now I enter keywords in Lightroom, then invoke Keyword Consolidator's keyword form to enter title & caption and double-check/correct keyword entry mistakes on the spot (or add a keyword I had forgotten...), since it displays the whole keyword path in a linear list, its easier to see stuff...
I hope Adobe considers some keyword entry enhancements:
- prompt before creating new keywords.
- display in list form with paths (hard to see what you've really got in paragraph form without paths).
- plural / singular / synonym detection and handling.
- and of course: proper handling of spaces and fix 'Contains Words' bug.
PS - John Ellis has a particularly robust keyword entry alternative if you've interest.
Have fun,
Rob

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:
- Proper handling of space character:
- Presently its used as a legal keyword character and a keyword delimiter - this just needs to be fixed!
- Detection of first use:
Presently, if I enter 'Robb Cole', I don't want a new keyword to be added, since I already have 'Rob Cole' - I would always like to be warned the first time a keyword is added, and given the opportunity to make a different choice or go ahead and add.
- Detection of duplicate:
If I enter 'Rob Cole', but I already have 'People/Rob Cole', I don't want a new keyword added, I want to be warned.
- Detection of similarities:
This is big topic, and includes handling of plurals and mispellings. I suspect there is some standard conventions for dealing with plurals, and I don't know what they are. But, if I enter Complection and that's not in the "dictionary", but Completion and Complexion are, I'd like to be notified and offered a list of choices, bringing me to my next idea: Dictionaries...
- 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

When adding a keyword to a photo, if there's a parent keyword, why isn't photo added to that??

I have a keyword setup that includes this kind of hierarchy:
iOS Apps
    Color Splash
    Waterlogue
    Instagram
My question is:
If I tag a photo with "instagram," for example, I would think that "iOS Apps" would automatically be added to it ... but that's not the case ...???

Remember: for all most practical purposes, your photos have the iOS parent keyword and the child keyword, even though parent keyword is not checked in the Keyword List pane.
Do this experiment:
* Choose a photo and assign ( iOS > ) Instagram keyword (just the child).
Go to library module and filter for all photos with iOS keyword - voila - there's your photo (right?).
Eroxx1818 wrote:
Feel free to tell me..
The bottom line: all most of the advantages (correct me if I'm wrong) with none of the disadvantages.
PS - after receiving feature request(s) to remove explicit parental assignments, I added the feature to do so to Keyword Consolidator plugin. That feature is used by people who started out doing parental assignments, then realized implicit assignment was preferred. So far, I have NOT had a feature request to add explicit parental assignments. So I kick the burden back to you - if you can explain why implicit parental assignment is inferior for you, then I'll add a feature to Keyword Consolidator to add explicit parental assignments automatically - it would be very easy to do.
Rob

Keywording Dilemna

I have a hierarchical list of keywords in LR - for simplicity's sake le's just consider
People
   many entries
   Paul Simon     [...note this is proper form mixed case]
Location
   many entries
If I use the "Click here to add keywords" box and start to type    paul    (... note that's in lowercase)
and wait a second, it finds Paul Simon - and if I wait for it to complete and then continue hitting the enter key it locks in Paul Simon
BUT, for whatever reason, occasionally I get paul simon or paul Simon .... I don't know why (perhaps I didn't pause long enough..); then I have multiple Paul Simon variations in the list. The stray ones get outside the People category so I have to hunt for them, track them down and add Paul Simon to those images and delete the casing-variations to clean things up. Afterwards, for a while, the pull down list seems to work until a variation creeps in again.
This is frustrating and time consuming.
I suppose one answer would be to have an option in LR to consider all casing alternatives equivalent. Anybody know if that's burried in an option somewhere ??
Alternatively, I could convert all my mixed case entries to lowercase and I suppose that would fix it going forward, aesthetics aside.
Does anybody know of a way to do this en masse ? ie: batch the database (cringe) Yes, I can do it one at a time .... but life is short ....
thanks, jc

Somebody in the forum about 2 years ago wrote a utility to do just what I
want - but perhaps it was dangerous. He and his website www.lightroomtools,
have since vanished. Doubt it dealt with the full range of the problem -
like in XMP's and so forth - but, if it would just ripple through the
database and fix it - it would be a great start.
Seems like a plugin - but I'm a tad tight for time right now to learn how to
write one
jc
From: Rob Cole
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:02 PM
To: Jim Camelford
Subject: Keywording Dilemna
I don't know of any keyword consolidation tools, but this seems ripe for a
plugin.
Rob

Lightroom 3- How do I batch process a group of photos with the same preset?

Using Lightroom 3/Mac. Attempting to apply a preset to a group of photos. I read the forum already but what I read didn't make sense to me. Sorry. Also wondering if anyone else is plagued by Lightroom's tendency to take over the monitor. Whenever I want to switch to another application, I end up having to "Hide Lightroom" to get it to move. Any thoughts?
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ahreff wrote:
Whenever I want to switch to another application, I end up having to "Hide Lightroom" to get it to move. Any thoughts?
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R

Keyword edit view

A keyword edit view would be nice. Just some UI widget that would one more easily create, delete and edit keywords. The current UI is pretty tweaking when trying to create parent-child relationships (try adding Apple under Zebra when you have hundreds of keywords). Also, allowing one to select multiple keywords for batch ops, like creating synonyms, would be nice.
An export (and import) to/from XML or some other normalized form would be sweet, too.

<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > What would be nice is to regroup and integrate all keyword tools into one > pop-up window or panel, as they are too >much spread in the present Lightroom interface. I think a consolidated keyword popup would be great. Especially if it had the different functions (create/edit/delete, add keywords to image, etc) on tabs or something, and had a different keyboard shortcut for each tab. What I'd ideally like to be able to do is hit a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-K would be my preference) and then have a popup where I could type the keywords I want to add to the selected image(s) and hit Enter to save and close the dialog. The current Ctrl-K functionality is a bit awkward - it puts focus in the keyword panel on the right (showing it if I have it hidden), and selects the entire text area containing the keywords for the selected image(s). So I have to hit Ctrl-K, hit End, hit Comma, then type my keywords. If I happened to be viewing with panels turned off, I now have to click the "hide right panel" arrow. Yuck! -- 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

Aperture 3 will not let me delete duplicate keywords

KEYWORD Craziness.
I have gone through my keyword list, and it is extensive, and edited duplicates out... to find them re-populated when I come back to Aperture. I have chosen to use all lower case font in my keywords so now it is obvious to pick out the duplicate. For example, the keyword "BUILDING" comes back which of course is right under "building". I have stopped applying keywords on import to avoid any possibility of duplicates and use presets to apply keywords...less typing more accuracy. Why is Aperture adding back keywords that I have edited many times. I use families to organize the keywords. The duplicate keywords do not have any pictures associated with them... strange that they keep coming back!
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance

Kirby,
Thanks for your input.
Three more things to look into- my situation
-I do sync a few pictures on Mobileme.
-I do have extensive Keyword Preset Groups of which I have deleted and rebuilt in the past couple of days precisely for the reason your noting. They were old information and they did not sync with the master list.
-I am using more than one library, but I am in the process of consolidating. I only use business photos on this computer (MacBook Pro) and relegate all personal photos to the iMac. Keywords are specific to work on the MacBook Pro.
Multiple libraries - Switch to Library - vs - Restarting Aperture 3
My first question would be... is the keyword list universal to all libraries? The answer...no.
I just switched between libraries and each library has it's own keyword list. I tried to import my edited keyword list from my main library to another library... it did not import the corrected version. I quit Aperture 3 and restarted to engage the changes (I'm guessing that is what one needs to do) I made in the main library Keyword List... and it worked. I switched to another library imported my edited Keyword List from the main library and now everything is in sink throughout my libraries. I have the same keyword list. I am editing all libraries into my main library applying keywords as I go, so I was not worried about loosing any keywords that were applied in those libraries.
Thanks for you insight Kirby. Any other tips? I'd gladly take them.
Craig

Does consolidating masters retain Faces, Places and other metadata?

I just got done adding keywords, Faces and Places to ~2000 pictures, and I've decided I'm going to go ahead, take the full plunge and have Aperture manage my files.
Before I consolidate my images (via copy, so I have the option of using Lightroom or something else someday), I need to know: will all the work I've done migrate to the consolidated version of my Aperture library?
I'd hate to lose all of that work...
thanks,
paul

Whether the images are managed or referenced makes no difference to metadata etc. in Aperture.
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P.S. If you're not already using other apps to directly access the files I'd not bother with copying, as you can always use File>Relocate Masters... to move them back out of the Library again.

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How to edit keywords?

My question is: how to consolidate keywords, which by mistake differ by capital (small) letter. For example I have photos with keyword "flowers" and photos with keyword "Flowers". I would like to have all of them with one keyword "flowers".
Unfortunately I cannot change the name in keyword HUD getting message that the keyword already exists. So, what is the simplest and fastest way to make the consolidation?
Thanks.

You can merge identical keywords, but for some reason beyond my grasp they made keywords case sensitive so it won't fix your problem.
The only solution I can think of is inelegant to say the least: Make a smart Album that gathers all the images with the keyword "Flowers" then drag the keyword "flowers" onto all the images in that album. Finally, delete the keyword "Flowers" from your keyword HUD.
You need to make this Smart Album on the library level so you're sure to capture ALL the images with that keyword.
I really hope that someone has a better suggestion.
DLS

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

Lightroom Upgrade at a client - sucess? - keyword problem deal breaker

Hi
Just a small report, on how upgrading a client's LR 2 catalog went.
Background: The client is a professional photographer specialized on garden photography. Her customers are gardening and lifestyle magazines who publish her photos regularly as illustrations to various articles. She has a professional Canon EOS 1Ds MK III equipment and shoots exclusively raw. In a shoot around 300 to 1000 images are shot. The Lightroom catalog has around 20,000 images currently.
In Lightroom she uses mostly DAM and some basic development features, images are delivered either as raw of as JPEG images to the clients. Keywording is especially important. She has an extensive hierarchical list of plants most of them multiword keywords with spaces, and lots of other keywords indicating if images were sent to clients and other stuff.
The upgrade went just very well. I exported the catalog to a new intermediate catalog without previews, installed LR3 and imported this intermediate catalog into LR3 generating new previews from scratch. The hardware is modest, and some functional tests (especially switching images in develop, spot tool, and adjustment brushes) revealed that everything performs well enough.
Then she asked me where she would have benefits from using the new version. And then I told the whole benefit story, which can be read everywhere.
- New process version, better details and noise reduction. She asked where she can see it? Hmm, I switched to 1:1 view changing the process versions, not really much to see on Canon 1Ds Mk III files. Even with noisier files, it was hard to tell, what has actually changed. So only a 4:1 view very tiny changes were visible. The impact on her business? Near to nothing as she does not print large. The differences would hardly be seen in the magazine prints.
- Lens corrections and perspective control: does not really matter in garden photography, but she could see some occasional usefullness.
- Publish services: no real need for it
- Print packages: nope
- Slightshow improvements: no use for it
- Performance improvements: nothing visible
- Effects: completely superfluous
- New import dialog: at first glance a hindereance, as she has to get used to it
Then she asked: did they correct the keyword handling, when entering keywords witrh spaces? (You know the nasty bug, where keyword completion is broken at keywords with spaces). We checked (I knew it wasn't fixed), and of course she was heavily disappointed. Thus, after 2 years of development nothing new for her, keyword bug not fixed? Of course she said, that I should tell her, when keyword completion works, then and only then would she consider an upgrade.
So, despite all the bells and whistles about the new version, I doubt that for many photographers the benefits are really so overwhelming in the real world. It is a pitty that Adobe continues to neglect the DAM features (some fresh ideas for client management would be great), that existing features aren't consequently implemented (esp. the possibilities to query the catalog, and keywording), and that existing bugs are constantly ignored and not fixed.
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 useless. Please listen!
Disclaimer: As I am not a professional for me the situation is not the same. I just report my experience I had, with a photgrapher, who needs a proper asset management. I recommended Lightroom to her because of the overall package (she moved from Cumulus), so I feel a little obliged to help her in this issue. In my case, as a user of a modest Lumix G camera system, I would consider the IQ benefits more signifcant. I don't know, if this is a general observation.
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

Does Bridge only Filter/Search Keywords in one folder at a time?

It seems the "Filter" feature in CS6 Bridge will only search keywords in a single opened folder. What if I have multiple folders for image downloads, one per day, in a parent folder for the month, or even a year? Can I use Bridge to filter images in a folder containing other folders?
If not, is there another search strategy I can use to quickly filter images in multiple folders? Thanks.

You can select a root folder, and then select Show Items from Subfolders from the View menu. That adds all contained files to the Content panel, from which you can filter.
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