Keyword structure

I have a keyword that is a sub of keyword I want to delete. But, I don't want the sub deleted, I want to promote it. How do I do that?

Click the child keyword and drag it to the left until you see a sold line separating the keywords, then drag to the new location.

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  • How to make a fairly simple keyword structure for a amateur shooter?

    Hi,
    I am trying to find a clever way of keywording my images, and have found the hierarchy that comes standard with Aperture to be unsuitable for my needs.
    I was hoping to share some ideas on how to build a suitable general structure for someone (amateur) that may end up shooting pictures of almost anything. Once again - I am looking for a fairly simple structure that I might actually end up using and not the pro huge hierarchies that some pro shooters use.
    So far, I have identified 3 main questions that I think keywords should answer:
    1. What (description of situation)
    2. Where (location, as spesific as possible, even if some off my photos has got gps data in them)
    3. Who (names, but also classified into family, friends, collegues, anonymous)
    Elabourating on this list, the next branch could perhaps be:
    1.What
    1.1
    1.2 ?
    1.3 ?
    1.4 ...
    Some ideas on categories here are: Work/Leisure, arts/crafts,
    2. Where
    2.1 Country
    2.2 County
    2.3 District
    2.4 Place/location
    3. Who
    3.1 Family
    3.2 Friends
    3.3 Collegues
    3.4 Anonymous
    I would love input on this topic and I would also like the hierarchy be expandable.
    Would also love to know where I can find more information on this topic for amateurs like myself.
    Best regards,
    Kjell Are Refsvik

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  • Elements organizer 10 - which file retains the keyword structure?

    I have organized my photos in elements organizer 10, using keyword tags and sub categories on my desktop.  It works great, if I want to see all pictures associated with a particular keyword tag, I select it and all photos assoicated with that tag appear.
    the problem is this, I want the same scenario to work on my laptop.  I realize I can rebuild the structure on my laptop, but why take the considerable time to rebuild, if there is a file that contains the structure info and move it to my laptop.
    Am I asking too much?  I hope not.
    Thank you, Joseph

    No Joseph. That can be done easily. Click on the + icon next to the Keyword Tags panel. A flyout will open. Choose "Save Keyword tags to file" This will create an xml. You can port this xml to your laptop and save it say in Documents.
    Now, in Organize on your laptop, open the same flyout by clicking on the + icon and choose, "From File" option to import the same keyword tags hierarchy into the organizer catalog.
    Thanks
    Andaleeb

  • Keywords on external Hard drive

    I spent a good part of a day adding keywords to my entire library on my external hard drive using my desktop. When Im away and using the same hard drive connected to my laptop the keywords I imported from my desktop no longer match up to the photo's I added to each keyword to while on my desktop. Is there a way the keywords can be matched to the same photo's on the same external hard drive from two different PC's without going through the whole process again?
    Thanks in Advance
    Rob

    It sounds like you're using two different databases. One for your desktop and one for your laptop. The photos on your external drive are associated with the desktop database. Therefore you need to do has Judith suggested. Export XMP files or move the database. If you choose to export the XMP files I suggest you also export the Keyword file from you desktop and import it to your laptop. If you have a keyword structure this will preserve it. Do this before you reimport the images to the laptop.

  • Option To Insert "/" Between Hierarchical Keywords

    "Treat "/" as a keyword separator" works for me when importing on Vista. I would like to see it added as an option for export. For example, I have keyword hierarchies of Places/National Parks/Yellowstone and Wildlife/Bears/Grizzly in both LR and my Vista Photo Gallery. Having LR automatically insert "/" when I export would automatically add them to their proper place in Photo Gallery. I would expect that "Places/National Parks/Yellowstone,Wildlife/Bears/Grizzly" would pop up in Keyword Tags and that when exported the images would be added to their proper hierarchies. Of course, this should be optional.

    So to sum up, I should be spending time devising a sensible keyword structure for the entire library, and then per project/import, select which keywords I'm likely going to use for this particular set of photos
    Yes, find keyword sets for typical workflows - the ones you will need for family shots, for vacation  trips, for specific projects you are working on.
    That seems to make sense, however what happens if I have forgotten to add an already existing keyword to my button sets and add it later (using the textfield above the button set selector), will that duplicate the keyword (ie adding it again to the toplevel), or will it select the keyword from deep down in the already existing hierarchy (the preferred approach!)?
    if you add an already existing keyword in the searchfield, the search will show all already defined versions of this keyword. You may have used it more than once - for example "Flower"
    There are predefined keywords that may be using the same term. Click the one you want to use.
    Then the existing keyword will be used.
    You can add new keywords to the button set any time from the "Edit" panel:

  • Keywords imported from PSE 5.0 (Poor User Experience)

    When moving to Lightroom, I successfully imported my substantial catalog (6,000 images) from Photoshop Elements 5.0. Keyword importing doesn't seem to be quite right, however. I've noticed the following two problems.
    1. All keywords appear both in their proper hierarchy AND as separate, top level keywords. For example, I have:
    Family
    Kids
    Nick
    as well as just:
    Nick
    All they Nick photos are tagged with both keywords (just "Nick" and "Nick>Kids>Family.")
    These keywords seem to be treated by LR as separate keywords. For instance, if I apply "Nick" to a photo, it does not update the photo count for "Nick>Kids>Family." And vice versa.
    This is a confusing situation. So it seems that I should delete all of the standalone, top level keywords, like "Nick." Do others agree? Is this a bug in the importing process from PSE 5.0?
    2. The hierarchy tags do not seem to update the photo count properly. When I create a parent/child keyword relationship in Lightroom, the addition of a child tag will of course update the count for the parent ("Family" as well as "Nick"). But this does not seem to work with respect to the keyword hierarchies imported from PSE 5.0. So perhaps I should essentially re-create the keyword structure in LR, which wouldn't be that hard to do. (Select "Nick" photos, delete the existing keywords, and create a new "Nick" keyword with the proper parent/child relationships.)
    Again, have others seen this behavior? Or am I misunderstanding how this functionality is supposed to work?
    I'm running LR 1.3.1 on Windows Vista.
    Thanks.

    I'm trying the Lightroom trial version and have had very similar issues on my import from Elements 5.02.
    I get a Top level tag and a matching one in a tree, event though it is only in the tree in Element Organizer. Some seem to have the identical set of photos, but others like "Emma" (my cat) have 10 photos attached at the top level and 200+ in the tree.
    I'm also struggling with using multiple keywords at once like
    Jim + Mexico + Lisa
    In the tree view I can only select one at a time and when typing into FIND it sometimes narrows the selection drastically for no apparent reason.
    Any pointers for someone happy with their Elements Organizer into Lightroom import would be most appreciated.
    Jim Cruickshank

  • Keyword List doesn't show the correct images when clicked

    I'm using LR 2.3RC on a Windows Vista Ultimate PC, although the same error occurs on LR2.2.
    I have a keyword structure "Karl > Family > People" with Karl having 33 images with this keyword. When I use the "Keyword List" on the right panel in the Library module to display these images I get over fourteen thousand images in the grid! This doesn't happen when I use the "Library Filter" bar above the grid.
    What gives?

    Don,
    the result of clicking on "Karl" should display 33 images in total. In fact I'm getting 14,589 of a possible total of 14,734 in the catalogue. This hardly a limitation, rather the opposite I would say!
    John

  • How to remove existing keywords during import?

    I have tried to find a way to NOT import existing keywords present in files that are already on my system, when I am importing those files into my library. They mess up my existing keyword structure and I just want to ignore them during import. I tried to enter an empty keyword text area with checkbox ticked in the template I apply during import, but that doesn't do the trick for reasons I don't comprehend. Any clues?

    To tell you the truth, I don't think the Lighroom Import function has the capability of removing keywords.
    Your choices seem to be ...
    Remove keywords after import, in which case you would also have to remove the unwanted keyword from your hierarchy
    Use freeware tools like Geosetter or Exiftool to remove the keywords from your photos before importing

  • Moving to Aperture 3 from IDimager - Importing XMP hierarchial keywords

    I am interesting in migrating from IDimager, a Windows application, to a native Mac application. I really like how Aperture 3 functions. But a really big issue is getting my keyword structure from IDimager into Aperture 3.
    I successfully exported the IDimager catalog and imported it into Aperture 3 keywords. The result is my existing hierarchy of keywords is preserved and maintained in Aperture 3. Awesome, so far...
    When I import my images into Aperture 3 however, all nesting is lost. Instead Aperture 3 duplicates all keywords at the top level. This is really disappointing.
    I do not have Lightroom nor Lightroom files to test, but I tried exporting a Lightroom compatible XMP format. No go either. It creates, what I presume to be non-standard, XMP information which does convey the structure of keywords. But I can only assume that Aperture 3 ignores that valuable information.
    Further, there does not seem to be a practical way to fix my keyword structure. The import of the images leaves me with hundreds of top level keywords that not clutter the keyword HUD. Removing those keywords also removes them from the images. So there seems to be no solution other then apply keywords from scratch. My library is not all that big, some 7,000 images, but I make very extensive use of keywords for many different purposes. So images typically have about 10 keywords plus most of their parent keywords. If there is no solution to automate the import, I am sorry to say, but I cannot see how I will be able to switch to Aperture 3.

    IDImager allows for Keywords to be written in hierarchical format. This means each individual keyword includes the parent keywords like this: "Others|Import|2009|2009-02-22". The only debate in my mind is about what will be more time consuming, writing and debugging a script to have exiftool extract the keywords and apply them hierarchical, or doing this task manually.
    From playing with the Aperture trial I deducted that making changes to keywords in the keyword HUD applies these changes to all images. Changing the "fred" keyword to "Freddy" will update all images that have the original "fred" keyword applied.
    We'll see. I am certainly not new to programming but have not used AppleScript before. Am still searching for a comprehensive guide and scripting examples that would help in pulling this off. But as I get closer to having the pre-processing outside of Aperture done for all of my images and very little accomplished in terms of the script I am leaning towards manually fixing my keywords.
    Adi

  • Advise appreciated for some keywording issues

    I've been working on the road for a while and have several catalogues set up. The main one on my desktop iMac has many of the hierarchies set up correctly
    iMac
    jockeys
    fred
    kevin
    horses
    Desert Orchid
    Zenyetta
    etc
    but I made the mistake on my laptop of not setting the hierarchies up correctly
    on the laptop  
    kevin
    fred
    Bert
    Sam
    jockeys
    horses
    Desert Orchid
    Zenyetta
    etc
    When I copied the laptop catalogue to my imac, I realised I have a problem
    Desert Orchid
    kevin
    fred
    Bert
    Sam
    jockeys fred
    horses
    Desert Orchid
    Zenyetta
    For example,
    As Fred was already in the original catalogue and in the correct hierarchy, he's now appeared twice, as does Zenyetta, and others many others.....
    I now have about 120 horses scattered across the "root" and the correctly keyword folder / category what ever and a few less of the mess of the jockey.
    It is simple (hmmm) to select all the images tagged Fred in the root keyword, and then select them all and tag them with the
    jockeys fred
    keyword and then remove the
    fred
    from the root, thus correctly updating the keyword, however, its very cumbersome and so far I've wiped all the keywords from the images of 2 jockeys from my correctly keyworded keyword collection (UNGH) due to getting confused over what I was doing.....
    Is there a more simple way to select and drag around keywords into new hierarchies reducing the risk of more deletions of keywords from images?
    I've commented on a keyword improvement thread (link) in the new forums for suggestions etc, but that does not help me at the moment.
    Any suggestions would be muchly appreciated.
    Hamish
    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/better_keyword_management/replies/60 07860

    Hmmm.. Well, my suggestion proabably isn't the best, but...
    First, fix the keyword structure on your laptop. Just drag the keywords around, you don't have to select/deslect the images.  Then re-do the import, but don't include negatives.  It *should* update the meta tags and update all your keywords to match what you want them to see without losing them all.
    If that's not an option, then (if you don't know about this method) if you hover over the keywords in the panel to the right, you'll see a little arrow pop up on the right.  Click that arrow, and it will filter all of the images based on that keyword.   Then just scroll down to the correct keyword, and click on the box to the LEFT of the keyword (still on the right panel), and it will add that keyword to all those images.  Then scroll back up (if necessary!) and uncheck (by clicking on the check box) of the one you don't want.  Gone.  Then remove the old keyword from your listing.
    Cheers!

  • Hierarchical keyword are flat in the keywording pane (will export mode)

    Hi,
    Let's say I have this hierarchical structure of keywords
    Birthday
         Bob
    Friend
         Alice
         Bob
    The "Friend" group is used to identify people present in photo.
    But when I shoot Alice at the Bob's Birthday, the exported keywords are : Alice, Birthday, Bob (Friend keyword is not check for export)
    I understand it's mainly because hierarchy is not handle by jpg format but I'm looking for a workaround.
    Something like automatically convert hierarchical link into the sign '>' to produce a result like : Alice, Birthday>Bob
    But I don't know if this is a good idea to proceed like this.
    Don't pay too much attention to the example which is very basic. For this kind of structure, I think the best way is to replace "Bob" by "Bob's birthday" to remove the duplicate keyword. But I have more complicated use cases and removing duplicate keyword is not always so easy.
    So, did you have some "export tips" ?
    May be the problem come from my keyword structure ? Is it evil to have duplicate keyword in different "folder" ?
    Thanks

    I have give it a try but I have the same problem as decribe here.
    Plus, when I check "Write keywords as Lightroom hierarchy" all keyword are exported.
    This is fine when you import the file elsewere because you get all the tag hierarchy but this is not what I need :-(
    Thanks for the reply

  • Hierarchical Keywords in Filter

    Hello Everyone!
    I have just moved from Windwos PSE8 with Organizer to PSE8 on Mac with Adobe Bridge. I am trying find my way in the Bridge application. Have searched and watched many videos on it over the internet but I still have one thing that is driving me nuts.
    I realized that I could inport and understand my hierarchical keyword structure and have them showed up in the keywords panel (or whatever it is called) in an hierarchical way).
    But when I try to use filter and filter my photos based on the keywords I can only see the deppest level word. For example, if I hava a Category of WildLife/Animal/Cat I can only see the keyword "cat". I may have another keyword like Toys/Fabric/Cat and in this case if I only specify the "cat" keywork I will end up with photos from both real and toy cats....
    How can this be handled? One of the features that I loved from Organizer was the ability to seach based on differente hierarchical keywords.
    Thanks a lot.
    Paulo

    iPhoto doesn't support hierardhical keywords.  Only Aperture does. We don't know what Apple's plans are for updates to iPhoto as we're just users like yourself but you can put in a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.

  • Keyword list image count is greater than metada keyword image count.

    How do you get the image counts to be the same? I have looked through the images of the offending keywords and there are no check marks against other keywords. Also above the film strip the total of all images selected is less than the total images. This has been an upgrade from Elements 10 catalog. Thanks.

    Thank you, but I need to start with a "clean slate" or at least a correct one. So I have persevered and found a solution, which may seem lengthy, but beats rebuilding the keyword structure image by image. I had numbers against parent keywords (should be zero) and incorrect numbers against child keywords, not all, but some cases of each. Dealing with the child keywords within a parent first and then the parent, the procedure I used was:-
    1. Select child keyword
    2. Select all
    3. Create collection using keyword name for clarity
    Repeat steps 1-3 for all child keywords within the parent keyword
    4. Delete the parent keyword
    5. Recreate the parent keyword
    6. Recreate all child keywords within the parent keyword
    7. Select a collection
    8. Select all
    9. Select the appropriate keyword and drag to an image
    Repeat steps 7-9 for remaining collections
    It appears to work and all the unaffected keywords are showing in each image!!!
    The engineer in me is satisfied!

  • Keyword problems

    I'm using LR 4.3.  Up until recently, whenever I selected a keyword from the "Keyword List " panel and clicked on the arrow to the right, all images with that keyword were displayed. Now though, when I do the same,not only do those images show, buit all images in every other sub set of keywords will display also.  Obviously I've changed something, but can't for the life of me figure out what.  Could anyone tell me how to revert so that only images at each keword level willbe displayed?
    Many thanks.

    I have hierarchical keywords, too - lots of them. And I learned that they require a bit of thinking and sometimes clean-up.
    edk01 wrote:
    When I select the Portfolio keyword, everything below showsup in the image window even if they haven't been explicitly assigned the "Portfolio" Keyword.
    I don't know if it was ever different but the way it is now makes absolutely sense because it makes it possible to see all of your portfolio images with one click.
    And you know that you can select a subset of your portfolio images - for instance People - by clicking on the sub-parent Keyword "People".
    What I find missing in your keyword structure that you cannot select images for -let's say - "commercial" without the web-sized images.
    I have many hierarchical keywords like the ones in your screen shot. But I do them with one difference: For instance under "commercial" I would have one sub-keyword for "web sized', another one for "normal sized" (or whatever makes these images distinct form web sized). That way you can select either all commercial images (by clicking to the right of "commercial"), or you can select commercial web sized images only (by clicking on "web-sized"), or you can select commercial and  normal sized images only.
    What you have under "commercial" is a mix of web sized and other commercial images.
    One other thing that i find really helpful is I spell my parent keywords thus: PORTFOLIO - (i.e. in capital letters + a hyphen).
    This makes the parent keywords stand out when they are collapsed, and I know at a glance that this is one of my parent keywords.
    I realize that everbody has a different workflow. So I'm not saying your keyword structure is wrong, I'm just making a suggestion that helped me.

  • Assigning "hierarchical" keywords using Batch Change or Metadata Preset

    Part of my keywording structure looks like this:
    Men
         Basketball
         Golf
         etc.
    Women
         Basketball
         Golf
         etc.
    I know that true hierarchical keywords don't exist in Aperture. But when I assign keywords using the Keyword Controls or dragging from the HUD, the parent (men or women) is "attached" so you can search for the one you want.
    I want to be able to assign the proper keywords using Batch Change or in a metadata preset during import. But I have yet to find a way to do this. Is there some hidden syntax for this? Or is it one of those impossible things in Aperture's current (and rather limited) keyword handling?

    You're welcome.
    A second copy of the iPhoto library on a second drive is always good. I once lost my backup drive and the system drive at the same time, because a lightning caused a power surge that killed both my macs system drive and the connected backup drive. I was lucky to have a bootable clone of the system drive as a second backup.
    I like this version of the quote you cited:
    A little learning is a dangerous thing;
    drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
    there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
    and drinking largely sobers us again.

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