No More Keyword Manager

Looks like Bullstorm has stopped work on the iPhoto plugin Keyword Manager.
Does anyone know of a similar plugin for iPhoto?
I think Apple should grab the App from Bullstorm and develop it as a feature in iPhoto.

I tagged some essential photos on my iPhoto 8.1.2 on my old MB and exported them to a folder,
How did you export them? To get the tags you would need to use
File -> Export
In the resulting dialogue select Kind: Jpeg or Tiff
Then check the box at 'Titles and Keywords'
Regards
TD

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  • Keyword management in iPhoto

    Hi all,
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    The problem I have is that due to the Keyword Manager dependency, I am stuck on iPhoto '09 which means I am also stuck on OS X 10.7.x. I am sure that at some stage, I will either buy a new mac or upgrade the OS, so I am starting to look at options for a replacement photo manager (note that I am purely looking for a photo manager/catalog... not image editing!)
    While I really like iPhoto, I am prepared to move away from it and I've no problems paying $100 or even more if it does the right job, but it must do the following:
    Support hierarchical keywords like the above
    Organise the folder hierarchy for me. I don't want to have to be fooling around with folders and files.
    Catalog and manage both photos and video
    Being able to import the following from my existing iPhoto library:   a) photos, b) album hierarchy, and c) keyword hierarchy from Keyword Manager.  I am a Mac/iOS developer, so I can certainly write scripts/plugins if required to facilitate this. This is very important as I have about 50,000 photos that I have arranged in approx 200 albums with about 200 keywords, so I don't want to have to rekey all that again
    I don't need:
    Image editing. I am more than happy to use Acorn or Photoshop for that (I just need a way to launch into the image editor from the app)
    RAW image support.  I'm just cataloging the family happy snaps.
    Some initial investigation suggests that Pixa, Lyn or Aperture are likely candidates.  I'd appreciate any advice/guidance on whether those apps are useful and/or suit my requirements (and alternatively, if there are other photo management apps that I have missed).  Thanks a lot.
    Craig

    Aperture supports the hierarchy, but in a slighty unusual way. In your case above, if you tag an image Pete Jones then searching on Jones Family or Friends will alos find it, but the keywords are not actually visible on the photo.
    So, in my Aperture Library I have
    Europe
         France
         Paris
    I tag a new photo with Paris and I can find it in a Europe, France or Paris search.
    If you first upgrade to iPhoto 11 then purchase Aperture, then it will simply open the iPhoto Library - so migrating is a cinch.
    And you can set Acorn or whatever as an external, though unless you're doing compositing you probably won't need them most of the time.
    You can view the Aperture manual here
    http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/

  • 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.
    Does anyone know of an alternative to Keyword Manager?
    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

  • Keyword Manager is not compatible

    Keyword Manager is not compatible with iPhoto '11. I accept that old software sometimes won't work with new programs. What I want to do is disable Keyword Manager so that I don't get a message each time iPhoto starts up. How do I remove/disable it?

    Thanks for the hint on how to disable the plugin. I too encountered this Keyword Manager issue with every iPhoto updade. Until iPhoto 10, the developers of the Keyord Manager plugin, bullstorm.se, used to deliver fixes within short time. But this time I get the impression that the folks at Bullstorm aren't there any more. The Bullstorm forums are unavailable for quite a while "due to maintanance". And the FAQ remains frozen for weeks indicating:
    - Q: Will Keyword Manager work with iPhoto 9 (iLife '11)?
    -- We are currently looking into that. We'll let you know.
    So I think about removing the KM Plugin, even though I think it's the best and most useful plugin for iPhoto out there. It sould be implemented into the software right from Cupertino.

  • Keywording: iPhoto Keyword Manager vs. Aperture

    I'm wondering if anyone knows the relative merits of Bullstorm's Keyword Manager for iPhoto versus the keywording facilities available in Aperture (3.0, since it just got released).
    I've loved Keyword Manager for its nested hierarcical keywords in iPhoto. I gather that Aperture has the same ability (better? worse?).
    I have a large (many tens of thousands of files) community photo archiving and organizing project to set up and was going to use iPhoto plus Keyword Manager for embedding the IPTC metadata fields for keywords plus titles and comments.
    But I'm beginning to think we could do with more extensive IPTC fields and support, and so considering Aperture. I'm wondering if the keywording is going to be more difficult without Keyword Manager.
    Any thoughts welcome.

    but do you know offhand if Aperture will export all the keywords that have been applied hierarchically (with Groups?) for an image as embedded IPTC keyword data, therefore allowing all the keywords applied within Aperture to be readable by other systems and software on export?
    Yes you can write the keywords to the IPTC data on export. That's an export setting in Aperture. However, as IPTC doesn't recognise hierarchies, it simply writes as a flat list.
    Regards
    TD

  • Feature request: better keyword management tool

    I'm re-organizing my keywords and I think that LR needs some work in keyword management and DAM features.
    I miss something like separate keyword management tool which would have two keyword lists, which would work a bit like spatial file management in Os X finder.
    Easily manage keyword hierarchy. For example: browse list and and be able to easily select keywords (now it's OK) and drag and drop them to under a new keyword (almost ok, but sometimes cumbersome, if one wants to move keyword which is/are at the bottom of the long keyword list to keyword which is at the top of the list).

    KKuja wrote:
     ...if one wants to move keyword which is/are at the bottom of the long keyword list to keyword which is at the top of the list.
    Dang near impossible once you have a lot of keywords. A work-around for me has been to filter keywords first to reduce the number of keywords in the list, then do the drag 'n drop. At a minimum, a change to scroll the list when you're searching for a drop target at a variable rate that depends on mouse position, or even something simple like slowing it down when the alt key is pressed.
    +1 vote - better keyword management.
    Something else that may help you in the mean time: KeywordConsolidator.
    Rob

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  • Keyword Manager

    I have uninstalled Keyword Manager.
    How can I get rid of:
    Beta expired
    This beta of Keyword Manager has expired. Please visit www.bullstorm.se for an updated version.
    It come up every time I open iPhoto.
    I have already emailed Bullstorm but have not gotten response.

    There is a fix, and it was posted on Bullstorm's site on Saturday. Simply download the newest version of SIMBL (which is how KM works). You will need to completely remove the old SIMBL, then install the new one. Then run the latest installer of KM. I had to restart iPhoto twice then it popped up about my registration details. After entering them, the Keywords menu item popped up.
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  • Keyword Manager in iPhoto '08

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  • Problem with Keyword Manager after downgrade

    I upgraded iPhoto 8 to 9, didn't like it, and reinstalled 8 from the Time Machine backup.
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    One for the Developers of Keyword Manager, I would have thought.
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    TD

  • Keyword Manager Supported under iPhoto 09?

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  • Keyword management - how do you move keywords up one level?

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