#Painter lightroom 6.12 download#
Create the habit "from here forward", and then tackle the previous photos as time and energy/motivation allows.Ī HUGE help for me in tackling both my previous and current keywording in this way is by using a modified version of John Beardsworth's "workflow" collections, which he explains and even generously supplies a download for, here. Though I am still working on this habit, I'd suggest you start by beginning a habit of keywording as soon as you import.
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What I'm "hearing" from you is that one big concern is how to get over the overwhelmingness of 31k pictures to keyword. animal / animals are both under "animal(s)". Also, for general keywords I encompass "single" and "multiples" with one keyword, ie. I do group all my "people" together under "people", and I should also probably group animals together, since I do a lot of photos of animals of various kinds. For me, I chose a mostly straight list, with just a few broad categories. There are strong users on both sides of this issue, and it may help you to search for "hierarchical keyword" within the forums here for those perspectives. One important question to settle (as a fellow perfectionist), is whether to do one straight list, or do your keywords in hierarchical order. What types of pics are you likely to want to find easily? The beauty of Lightroom is that as long as you are consisten, you can use all of the above as keywords! In terms of what keywords to use, ie dog vs. It helps me to take a group of photos and do them all at once. It helps me in the sense that photos of various time periods but similar events are going to have similar keywords. For example, I created a collection for "Christmas", and then placed pics from several dated folders (around Cmas time) into one collection. This article may be a good start for you:ĭo a search for "effective keywording, lightroom", and you'll find several.įor me, reading about how to do it helps motivate me get started.Īlthough some may disagree, I find that since I have a large number of photos that I imported before I really started keywording, it helps to create temporary static collections. I understand how you feel - being overwhelmed by the enormous task, and I also understand the perfectionist making things even more difficult to get started. PS: I'm sure this has been discussed earlier but I didn't find an exact version of this thread, so I am sorry if this is a repost. I maintain meticulous music catalogs and I've actually pushed off keywording for 2+ years because of the daunting task of going back to my old photos but it's getting bigger and bigger. I'm sort of a perfectionist for these types of things so I get flustered easily if things are out of order. General type (portrait, landscape, still life) but then do I do ocean AND water, or just ocean? And then if I search later and I only did half my photos one way, I'm "missing out' on the ones I missed, right?) Some specifics of the photo (cake, ocean, lake, water. vacation, birthday, wedding, anniversary, whatever) I just feel like I don't know where to start.Īt a minimum, I think I'd like to capture: So far I have been OK with just digging photos out when necessary from their folders but it takes some time, and as each year passes it gets a little more tricky (was that photo in 2003 or 2004?). do I call dog photos just "dogs" or do I call it "labrador retrievers" or do I call it the name of my dogs.
But then it dawned on me I might want subjects. I started tagging thinking of three things. All pics were (are) geotagged (which replicates just fine in LR) and all pics were name tagged (which I'm still figuring out how to get into LR in a good usable manner).īut other topics I never figured out. I came from Picasa and I had location and people nailed there. What are you best practices for effective keywording?
There was a point in time when I was keywording some pics in Picasa but I became overwhelmed because of inconsistency and so forth. I have currently over 31,000 photos in my library.
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