Keywords in iPhoto6?

anyone know if keywords are done better in iPhoto 6? resizeable window for keywords and hierarchical lists?

Hmmm. Slight improvement.
They're not in hierarchical lists. They're not in a resizable window. But... they are in a slightly bigger window that before, and they're listed in two columns.
The window is just big enough to accomodate all my Keywords without scrolling the window, so I suppose there is a small chance that iPhoto is resizing the window appropriately, but I doubt it.
Mark this one up for iPhoto '07!
Steve.

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tokyosky
Simply copy the iPhoto Library Folder from the Pictures Folder on the old machine to the same location on the New machine.
Then, in case of permissions issues: Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
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http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
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Second that. I detest this 'help' that iphoto is giving me, especially since keyword management in iphoto is so useless that you can't strip the Raw keyword out easily after it's added. There must be some way to stop iphoto from polluting metadata like this.

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Hi all,
Recently I upgraded iPhoto2 to iPhoto6 on a PowerMac G4 running Tiger (10.4.11) and after the upgrade all the keywords(~40 or so) were gone! I read a number of posts here on the topic and ran across the app iPhoto Library Manager. I downloaded and installed the free version and using the "Rebuild Library" option I was able to rebuild the iPhoto library and re-populate about half of my albums. There remaining albums still have no pics in them.
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Hi Terance,
That indeed does seem to be the case Is the correct procedure to bring up iPhoto6 for the first time, answer NO to the "Upgrade" question, and then iPhoto6 will display a blank, empty new library in a new folder? Then to get the keywords and other meta-data brought over correctly, one selects "Import" in the new iPhoto6, pointing it to the old iPhoto library and proceed?
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File -> New Smart Album
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TD

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My keywords are not showing in the thumbnail gallery view of iPhoto6. When I check "Keywords" from the View menu a blank space appears below each thumbnail, which is what they should do do accomodate listing the keyword, but there are no keywords there. I thought my font color might be the same as the background but it's not. Anyone know what the fix is?

Hi Jim,
i don't know what the problem is either. Try deleting the Preference file and then redo your views and preferences in iPhoto and see if it helps.
Preference file
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Try the following:
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In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
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OT

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Perhaps I am not using the correct term for my iPhoto6 library. I had put it on an external hard drive and not on the boot drive with the iPhoto application (is this a "referenced library"?).
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I bought a new macbook a week ago but would love to have my old iphoto6....

as i dont like how the new iphoto works on editing..
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If you upload after each shoot and then clear the camera events will reflect that. And, as Terence mentioned you can use keywords, descriptions, albums, smart albums and folders to organize the photos.
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OT

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Sounds like your database is damaged.
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Regards
TD

Some grey pics after moving G4/iPhoto5 on 320G HD to MBP/iPhoto6 120G HD

I've searched this forum a little bit but haven't seen anything like my case, so I'm posting a new thread.
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The tricky thing is the pics are right there in the Originals folder in their Rolls and can be opened via Preview. Permissions are good (yes I even tried BatChmod). I tried to rebuild the library (apple-option and checked top 3) with no avail (no error msg). And, of course, iPhoto wouldn't let me re-import in-place because they're already in Originals.
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Naichia Yang
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You have plenty of disk space. Stop worrying about it. Rebuilding the library involves rebuilding the db file (the library6.iphoto file) not the entire folder. So the process does not require gigs and gigs of disk space.
The discrepancy between the iPhoto size and the Finder size is because the iPhoto reports the size of the current version of the pics, the Finder reports the total installation - Originals, Modified, Data and ancillary files.
The ! or ? turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents. The most common cause of this is User Activity in the iPhoto Library Folder. When you moved the iPhoto Library Folder did you move it as a single unit or in parts?
Do you still have the old v5 library? If so, it might be worth trying again, as otherwise it looks like a case of db corruption. If that's the case, then your option may only be to populate a new library.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same film rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual rolls to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
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Regards
TD

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.
If you need more control, you can use Find instead, where you can also do AND/OR operations too, but takes a little more patience.

How can I integrate metadata and keywords in Lightroom with those in Photoshop, Bridge, and Photoshop Elements? In other words, is there a way to retrieve common metadata templates from all modules? Thanks!

Keyword and Metadata Integration throughout Adobe Modules

Thanks! That's helpful.
What I mean by "common metadata", is a unified, updated, most current metadata, which I could update in each program. That is without overwriting the metadata, but appending new keywords to the metadata I created in the previous program.
I use Bridge, then Lightroom and finally Photoshop. That's the regular workflow: Bridge for preliminary sorting and and adding some keywords; Lightroom for organizing and picking the best images; finally, Photoshop for processing. I got Photoshop Elements on trial. Doesn't work for my purposes.
I need to share and update the metadata / keywords when I go from one program into another. Can't retrieve metadata I set up in Bridge into Lightroom. Same happens with Photoshop, where I can't retrieve keywords I add in Lightroom. It's tedious to write up the keywords again.
Thanks for your efforts!

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