Selecting multiple keywords

Does anyone know if there is a way to select multiple keywords from the "keyword tags" panel and have it do an AND search instead of an OR. i have family names setup as some of my keywords and if i select 2 names, i want it to show only photos that have have both people in them. not photos that have one OR the other.

If that is all that is wanted, in Keyword Tags on left of Library Multi-Select kewords do Select All on images and Do '+' for new collection to create collection with sellected images. Same end result.
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Selecting Multiple Keywords for an "AND" Images Selection

When selecting images in iPhoto, one feature that I liked was the ability to fine-tune my image selection by choosing multiple Keywords. For example, I might have 50 images of Mary, either by herself or with other people, and one of the Keywords assigned to those 50 images is "Mary." I might also have 25 images of Joe, also either by himself or with other people, with one of the Keywords assigned of "Joe."
Out of all my images, there might be 5 images that include both Mary and Joe together. In iPhoto, I could rapidly find those 5 images of Mary and Joe together by clicking and selecting the separate Keywords "Mary" and "Joe" from the list of all my iPhoto Keywords.
Unless I'm missing something, the only way I have found to do this in Lightroom 1.0 is by typing both Mary and Joe in the FIND dialog box to find JUST the images of Mary and Joe together.
It is my understanding that LR currently has an "OR" find command when I "COMMAND-click" (Mac) on the Mary and Joe keywords, LR displays ALL the images of Mary and Joe. I would like to see a feature in future versions of LR where I could "OPTION-click" on the Keywords that I had set up in LR that would then initiate an "AND" Find command for the Keywords selected so that LR displays images where Mary AND Joe appear together in the images.

I did go to the LR Extras FAQ. However, I didn't find the specific references that you mention. I did notice a couple of topics that cover "intersections," but I don't think that addresses my specific request.
For example, If I'm searching through ALL of my images and I want to DISPLAY only the images of that I've taken of rivers in California, I would like to be able to do it in LR in ONE keystroke(OPTION) and TWO mouse clicks (in iPhoto, you can do it in two mouse clicks).
Currently, in LR 1.0, if I use the FIND panel, I would have to type in several keystrokes. If I don't have any COLLECTIONS for rivers or California, but do have KEYWORDS of "rivers" and "California," is there anyway I can select from the Keywords to have JUST the rivers in California displayed? To just have them highlighted only would force me to scroll through hundreds of pictures taken in California, when I might only have twenty photos of California rivers.
I appreciate your offer of help and please point me in the right direction if I am missing something. I do plan to re-visit the site again as I can see that it contains a lot of good insightful info about LR. Thanks.

PSE8 - Multiple Keyword Selection

When you select multiple keywords the result is an "AND". i.e. If I selected the keywords "mom" and "dad", only pictures with BOTH mom AND dad would appear. Is there a way to make this an "OR"?
thx.

SourabhQ wrote:
Also there exists one more way of achieving this. This is Free text search box which is there on the toolbar. Here you can give your search as <tagname> or <tagname>. This would perform or search for the two tags.
Yes, that was precisely the way the OP used for multiple tags. But the problem is to use the XOR logical operator which is not available in this menu.

Search for photos with multiple keywords

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to search for photos that have multiple keywords. When selecting multiple keywords in a Bridge search the default behavior is to find photos that have any of the keywords rather than all of the keyword. In other words I want to do an AND keyboard rather than an OR search.

You should be able to do so in the find menu of Bridge (Edit/Find or cmd+F)
With the plus sign you can add an extra (and) keyword to it.
A shortcut may be to first find one keyword and then use the filter panel
keyword section and select the other wished keywords by putting a checkmark
in front, only the selected files will show in the content window.
In other words I want to do an AND keyboard rather than an OR search.

Ctl-Clicking Keywords to add multiple keywords to images

Ok. Maybe I'm just overlooking something here, but:
I would like to be able to select multiple keywords and drag them onto an image to apply them all at once.
Problem is, when I select the first keyword, it automatically sorts my Library to the images containing it (thus losing view of the image I want to tag.)
In Elements it would only sort when selecting the check box next to the keyword. (Another reason I want check boxes!!!!!!!!!!) Elements would allow you to select multiple keyword tags themselves (without sorting images as you do so) and you could drag all the keywords to an image (or selected images) to apply them at once. How do you do that in LR?
In a similar vein (sp??) I would like to add keywords to the keyword painter by dragging them from my keyword list and dropping them onto the painter entry field. That way I know exactly which keyword is going in, and am not mis-spelling or mis-naming a keyword, or typing one that doesn't exist yet, or is coming from the incorrect hierarchy... and I don't have to type anything in.
If I'm having a brain fart and missing something obvious here let me know.

>Ok. Maybe I'm just overlooking something here, but:
Perhaps you're overlooking use of right-click context menus...
>I would like to be able to select multiple keywords and drag them onto an image to apply them all at once
1. Select the keywords you want to add in the keyword panel.
2. Right-click one and choose "Use these as Keyword shortcut".
3. Display the image(s) you want to add them to in the grid and select all of them.
4. Right-click the selection, and choose "Add keywords..."
It's not dragging, but it works.
>In a similar vein (sp??) I would like to add keywords to the keyword painter by dragging them from my keyword list and dropping them onto the painter entry field. That way I know exactly which keyword is going in, and am not mis-spelling or mis-naming a keyword, or typing one that doesn't exist yet, or is coming from the incorrect hierarchy... and I don't have to type anything in.
Same idea...
1. Select the keywords you want to use in the keyword panel.
2. Right-click and choose "Use these as Keyword shortcut".
3. Click the painter icon "spray-can" and the keywords are displayed and subsequently used by the painter.
(Translate keystrokes if you are on a Mac.)
There are also keyboard shortcuts for all of this stuff which are actually faster than the right-click menus.
>If I'm having a brain fart and missing something obvious here let me know.
With due respect, based on your many posts about keywording deficiencies perhaps you are too locked in to the Elements paradigm. Try thinking outside of that box with LR. It has its shortcomings, obviously, but I've found I can get an awful lot done with it by forgetting about the way other applications do things.

Quick searching by multiple keywords

Hi,
Just a quick question. I don't seem to be able to search for multiple keywords through the quicksearch input (on the top right of the browser window). If I put in one keyword it works like a charm, but if I enter two (with either spaces or commas between) no results will show up.
If I use the search HUD I can select multiple keywords or even add multiple text filters and type the keywords into them and it works.
Is it only possible to search for one keyword through a quicksearch, or is there something I'm missing?
Thanks!

I haven't seen this anywhere else, and I just
discovered it yesterday: If you type in several
keywords separated by commas, it will search all the
images in the folder/album/project that have all the
specified keywords. No need to bring up the search
HUD and click on individual keywords. It's been a big
time saver for me when trying to narrow down a search.
That's a nice little trick! Thanks for sharing.

Select Multiple Folders for Keywording

I'm trying to select multiple folders in the catalog simultaneously in order to add the same Keywords to all of the photos in all of the selected folders without having to do it folder by folder. But although the folders are shown as selected in Navigator, nothing shows up in the main view, and the Keywords section is grayed out. Is there any way of doing this?

Hm... Lightroom remembers filter setting individually for each folder and even for group of folders. So, even if you can see pictures in one folder and see pictures in the other folder, it could be that a combination of both has a filter applied.
Try unchecking
i Enable Filters
from the Library menu while you have multiple folders selected.

How to use Multiple Keywords in a Search Form?

I'm currently using a bind variable on the view object to generate a search form where the user enters one keyword that is applied to the WHERE cause of the SQL query.
The problem is I'm trying to implement a Google-type search, where the user can enter multiple keywords in a single text input area. I then want to parse out those keywords and search the database on each keyword (similar to a Google search.) Can someone please help me point me in the right direction as to where / how to code in the appropriate hooks to accomplish this?
Example:
(user input) Enter Search Keywords: keyword1 keyword2 keyword3.. keywordn
database query:
Select item from table where (desc like '%keyword1%') or .. (desc like '%keywordn%') or
(category like '%keyword1%') or .. (category like '%keywordn%')

Can't you parse what was entered and create a number of view criteria rows, then apply them? At that point, they would be 'OR'd together'.

Problem deleting multiple keywords in lightroom 5

I am importing about 20,000 pictures from Flickr. they are all creative commons, and the end result will be the use of approximately 4000 of these in an online sign language dictionary.
I use Bulkr to import them and this process imports the tags as well as other information such as the photographers name and url. Many of these photos arrive with hundreds of tags, so that the total number of tags might be 20000 or more. I need to assign my own tags and delete all the tags that the photo arrived with. I use the lightroom batch delete to do this (the little minus sign at the top of the keyword list). i select a keyword, hold down the shift key and scroll down. the problem is that i cannot just scroll down to the bottom of the list. There appear to be unpredictable keywords that cause the shift-select process not to work. if i scroll back up and then carefully scroll part of the way back down, then there will be a point at which shift-select stops working and above that it works.
The end result of this is that it takes numerous shift-select-scroll down-select to delete everything so that what should take maybe 2 minutes takes 20 minutes or more.
The problem may be related to foreign language keywords especially chinese characters, but even what looks like a perfectly ordinary keyword can stop it. Two recent examples: travellers cheque and Київ. In all cases, the words can be deleted when i click directly on them. you just cant shift-select THROUGH them.
A separate annoyance that i will just grumble about is that i was forced to put these pictures in a separate catalog because there is always the risk that i could manage to delete my own keywords while batch-deleting everyone elses, and there is no simple way that i know of to undo this. with the separate catalog at least i wont delete all the keywords for my own pictures.

With respect to problems deleting multiple keywords: On Windows, since at least version 3, LR has had basic bugs when you have more than about 1600 keywords showing. (Hard to believe it isn't fixed by now.) A simple workaround for you situation is to filter the keywords one letter at a time and then select the subset of keywords that are showing -- e.g. filter all keywords with the letter "t", then all keywords with the letter "b", etc.
With respect to not getting the keywords into your catalog in the first place: You can define a Metadata Preset that will clear the keywords on import:

You SHOULD be able to apply batch changes just by selecting multiple images

Don't get me wrong, i love lift/stamp. It's very helpful.
BUT, I really hate the fact that in Aperture you can't just drag-select a group of images and then either apply adjustments to all of them, or –more often– keywords.
Why does Aperture keep you from doing this?
At the very least, you should have the OPTION in PREFS to do this. Or not.

I'm sorry you are having difficulty.
It's simple: you select multiple images, right?. One has a thick white border and the others have thin ones. But, even though you have multiple images selected, if you input keywords, or other metadata, or an adjustment from the Inspector, it only applies to the "primary" image.
There should be an option to have that be the case... OR, if you want, to apply whatever adjustment from the INSPECTOR you choose... and have that be applied to those multiple images.
"...why would anyone be likely to want to see each single adjustment step applied to a large number of images before settling on the preferred combination?"
Because everyone's not you.
I just shot 100+ table tops that were VERY similar lighting / angles / etc. And I needed to comp them out for the client ASAP. The technique I described would've saved me a lot of time. Instead I had to do ONE image of the mini-batches, and then lift/stamp the rest. When it would've been so much easier for me to drag-select the 8, or 15 in a group, and assign them all keywords at the same time, and do some adjustments. Bam. Quicker.
Oh, and per the "what is the universe" question? You don't have to look any further than Apple's own operating system to see this "crazy" and "unique" technique in action: go to FINDER, select multiple items of folder (drag around them), and then CTRL-Click and choose a label color. Viola! ALL the items become that color.
Like I said, I'm only suggesting Apple provide the OPTION of working this way. And it IS the norm in most operating system / program environments.
In fact, watch the Lynda.com vid on Aperture 3: the MetaData portion, the guy drag-selects a bunch of images and says "...now, you'd THINK you could just enter some keywords for these similar images and have them stick... you'd be wrong. You have to use lift/stamp for that. For some odd reason."

Selecting Multiple Images

Recently something strange started happening ...
When I select multiple images there used to be a white line around everyone selected and a bolder white line around what I call the primary ...
Ok, so now, when I select multiple, eg 100, images and try to apply a keyword to them all, it only applies it to one ... the others no longer have the thin white border that denotes selected, only the primary gets the action to ... this also applies to ratings but not to deletes or moves ... in the thumbnail area both white borders are there ... what did I change ???
thanks in adavance as this has frustrated me for a little while now ... and culminated with me wanting to apply the same change to 3K images ...

Easy answer--I hope. This has hit a bunch of us at one time or another.
Here's my educated guess: "Primary Only" got selected somehow. There's three ways I know of this could have happened:
1. The command-key is simply "s". Therefore it's easy to toggle it and not know it.
2. The icon is the bottom left set of five, the fifth icon. That also toggles it.
3. Under the "Edit" menu it's "Toggle Primary Only"
Use any of those methods to toggle it back off and see if the problem clears up! I hope so...it stumped me for awhile also...
FWIW, "Primary Only" is a mode that applies keyword and other changes to only the primary selection, even if a bunch are selected. The primary is the selected item with the thickest white line around it.

How to see full size images when selecting multiple photos

In the Photos app, I click to view a photo and it shows up full screen like it used to. But now when I try to select multiple photos to upload to an email by hitting the send-to button at the lower left, suddenly all the photos are thumbnails at the top and a host of options fill the screen where the full-sized image used to be. Without full size previews I can't tell what photos in a series are really the better ones. Is there a way in iOS 8.1.1 to flip through your photos full screen and only select a few? It seems like this worked before but now this function has been removed? Thanks

Thanks for your answer. I think you are correct.
I did discover that when entering the first letter of a keyword in the box, a list comes up with suggestions. Frequently that list is only of the keywords that begin with the letter I entered. Once in a while I can get the entire list but I don't know how I do it. It seems intermittent but I suspect it is not. Any idea how that happens? Thanks again.

Deleting Multiple Keywords

OK, once again. I am asking the same question many others have asked. I followed the directions from my search results about deleting multiple keywords at one time. I accidently placed a keyword on 1,000 images.
I have tried selecting them all, going to the bottom of the window and typing in the keyword, hit shift and enter, and that does NOT work.
Anyone, ANYONE found a solution yet? I mean, come on. it is a simple mistake, and something that should be written into the program.
Sheesh.

Below the window that says "Add Keyword" you have the Keyword Button sets. If that keyword you are trying to remove is not in one of them, go to the last option, Edit Buttons, and add that keyword to one of the sets.
Now choose the Keyword Button Set with that keyword. Select all the images with that keyword and go to Metadata, Remove Keyword, and click on the keyword.
Make sure also that you don't have the Primary Only button on, or will affect only the primary image, rather that the whole selection.

Question about filtering by multiple keywords

I must be missing something, because setting up a filter using multiple keywords doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm clicking "Text" in the Library Filter, then selecting "Keywords" and "Contains All". When I type in multiple keywords, separated by a space, the list still contains photos that do not contain ALL of the keywords I entered. The resulting list seems to be displaying photos as if I selected "Contains Any" instead of "Contains All". Am I missing something obvious here?
- Dave

Could you provide a specific keyword example? Do you perhaps have two keywords such as 'Horse Carriage' and 'Horse'?
Using the text filter "Keywords Contain All Horse" would also find images with the keyword 'Horse Carriage'.

Selecting multiple blocks of images

How do I select multiple blocks of sequential images in LR3?
In PSE 8 I used Ctrl and holding the left mouse button while dragging over the required images but this does not seem to work in LR3
Using Ctrl and /or Shift to select individual groups of images works in LR but is very slow when I want to select numerous groups of sequential images
Specifically I want to select the many groups of 3 to 10 sequential images showing each of my kids so that I can add the appropriate keyword(s).

Thanks - so the click and drag does not work..??
The Shift.Ctrl does work but the click/drag is much faster.
Cheers

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