At some point, most photographers, even the most casual ones, will have to deal with indexing and locating specific images from the many they’ve taken over the years. Simply sorting them into folders by date or location can quickly become problematic especially when you have 10,000 images, let alone 10s of thousands. What do you [...]

 May, 2009 Basic Keywroding Concepts

Last time I talked about what makes good keywords and started talking about how to get keywords into your library software. This time we’re going to cover how to create a keyword import file to get many keywords into Lightroom quickly. Importing a keyword file saves a significant amount of time and allows for almost [...]

 May, 2009 Importing Keywords from a File

This is the third segment in my series of Photoshop Lightroom keywording tips. Last time I covered how to create keyword files that you could import into Lightroom as an easy way to build large keyword databases. This time we’ll cover the last two ways to add keywords from within Lightroom. The final two methods [...]

 July, 2009 More on Hierarchies