Comments on: Lightroom 2 – Keywords Part 2 – Applying Keywords

By: Petri Lopia

Petri Lopia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:20:34 +0000

Do you know is it possible to make list like this:
- Countries
– Country 1
– Country 2
– Place on country 2
– Place 2 on country 2

and when you add “Place 2 on country 2″ keyword to your photo it would automatically add “Country 2″ too?

By: Dave Beedon

Dave Beedon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:36:36 +0000

Greg, Thanks for sharing this keyword information.

By: gdisch

gdisch — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:39 +0000

If you import your photos with keywords attached that are not in the hierarchy, they will show up in the keyword list at the root level. At that point you can either drag the keyword into the hierarchy or select the photos by clicking the arrow to the right of the keyword in the keyword list and then applying the correct keyword from the hierarchy and then delteting the unwanted keyword.

If you simply want to start over with no keywords, create a new catalog and import all the photos, then select all photos and in the keywording panel highlight and delete all the keywords. You can then go under Metadata on the tool bar and “Save metadata to file”, close the new catalog and open your nornal catalog and import the photos without the keywords.

By: sbtm

sbtm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:26:55 +0000

Never mind the post that I just made. I figured it out and already created my “more” organized keywords. Now the thing is, if I import, all of my keywords will be messed up!

Any work around to this?

By: sbtm

sbtm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:20:13 +0000

Hi,

Will it be possible to tell us how to create the actual hierarchy before even applying to the pictures so that we have something in place to work with.

I have already tagged about 4,000 images and have a list of keywords but is not in a hierarchy.

Thanks.

By: assombone

assombone — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:33:54 +0000

Hi, cool site, good writing