Photo keywording concepts: stuff to consider before you keyword

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6 жыл бұрын

Keywording your photos isn't as easy as it looks. Before you start, there are a bunch of considerations to ponder and, unfortunately, few black and white rules.
This video discusses the tradeoffs you'll need to think through before you whip up a controlled keyword vocabulary and have at it.
Watch the video. Read the companion blog post at www.carlseibert.com/keywordin... (It's long. Sorry. Gotta be that way.) Then make a simple plan, start building your keyword list, and you'll be able to keyword effectively and easily.
Upcoming videos and posts will be HOW-TOs, with step-by-step instructions on the mechanics of keywording in the software you'll probably be using. We'll start with Photo Mechanic, and move on to Lightroom later.

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@GrantSR 5 жыл бұрын

Finally, FINALLY, someone who knows how to use KZfaq to EDUCATE! This is truly one of the best educational videos I have ever seen. Every KZfaqr should be forced to watch your videos so they can see how it should be done.

@carlseibert9015 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Some of these topics are a real challenge to do on video. I appreciate the encouragement.

@marcweisberg7998 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent info Carl. Thank you so much!

@JonathanClark99 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your helpful insight Carl. I have a very large collection to keyword and your wisdom helps!

@MrTulipone 4 жыл бұрын

Very many thanks. Your insight has been really helpful and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos.

@carlseibert9015 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MichaelGoldner 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Have you ever considered to make a video about tagging and metadata with Digikam? I do not use Photo Mechanic. For me as a hobby photographer it would be interesting to see a best practice example how to tag the photos. Usecase: family with kids and a dog. The family members have different hobbies (Tennis, Basketball, Hiking). They travel around sometimes, share pictures on social media and for Christmas the relatives get a printed calendar with the pictures of the year. At anniversaries photo collections are made.

@LouieNeira 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Never heard keywords explained so well. Thanks!

@carlseibert9015 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! It's great to hear that I helped.

@stevemoore-vale5632 6 жыл бұрын

Superb tutorial and I’ve read the blog post too. I’m just an amateur photographer and it’s only me that searches my own content. I have recently started using Captions and now that I’ve read this I now know what needs to be put there and what to put into keywords. And I need to look at using a controlled vocabulary system as mine is currently just a long list of words. I’m using photo mechanic. Thanks for sharing.

@carlseibert9015 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! As we speak, I'm working on the HOW-TO videos for keywording. There will be two parts for Photo Mechanic. First will be the various ways you can apply "flat" keywords. The sequel will be working with hierarchical (Photo Mechanic calls 'em "Structured") keywords. (The keywords are normal keywords either way, it's just how they're applied.) Stay tuned.

@melissawest43 5 жыл бұрын

Superb!

@Paul_anderson_creative 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@notdisclosed9745 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting video, but it is not correct that in Lightroom you cannot search for all keywords except certain ones you wish to exclude. You cannot do this on the pull down search menu, but it is a very simple matter to create a smart collection with two rules, the first being “contains” and the second being “doesn’t contain”. Works exactly as you would expect. Lightroom’s metadata management and searching has many deficiencies ( e.g. cannot search synonyms in the keyword list, or choose whole word or partial match), but including all metadata except certain text is achievable.

@carlseibert9015 6 жыл бұрын

Hot damn! You're right! Thank you. Listen to this man. He speaks the truth. It's a workaround, but it does work. To reacp: *Go to Collections and make a new smart collection. You can reuse it, so you can name it whatever you want. I called mine "AA_NOT_SEARCH". Smart collections use the same filters that you have in the Filter or Find interfaces, but there's a little plus sign at the right that you click to add additional filter statements. *Just click the plus and add a second line. *Choose "Match all of the follow rules" in the pulldown at the top. *Use the pulldowns to make your first line be your main search, like "Caption contains words [some search terms]" (Note that "Contains" puts an OR operator between search terms, like "Contains Any Of". "Contains Words" or "Contains All" are probably what you are looking for.) *Put your NOT statement in the second line. " Keywords doesn't contain [some keyword]". *Click 'Save'. And you're good to go. Note that both the Caption and Keywords fields in the first column are under the 'Other Metadata' flyout. *To reuse the Smart Collection, right-click on it and choose 'Edit Smart Collection'. You are completely right that this is silly on Adobe's part, especially considering that the repeater multi-line interface that's in Smart Collections is used for the Find feature in Adobe Bridge. (But don't even think about trying to use Bridge as a digital asset management system.) I'll add this as a comment to the post on my blog. Again, Thanks.