Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Most of the time, finding images you want in Lightroom will be easy. Want to look
at photos from your vacation to New York? Just click on your New York collection.
If you want to see all your photos from all your New York trips, then you could
search by the keyword New York (remember those generic keywords you added
when you first imported your photos?). But what if you want just photos of the
Empire State Building, and just photos of it at night? If that sounds like something
you'd wind up doing fairly regularly, than this is for you.
Step One:
Before we go into all this, I just want to say
up front that most folks won't need to do
the level of keywording I'm about to go
into. But if you're a commercial photog-
rapher, or if you work with a stock photo
agency, keywording all your images is
pretty much what you have to do. Luckily,
Lightroom makes the process fairly painless.
There are a few ways to add specific key-
words, and there are different reasons why
you might choose one way over another.
We'll start with the Keywording panel in
the right side Panels area. When you click
on a photo, it will list any keywords already
assigned to that photo near the top of
the Keywording panel (as shown here).
By the way, we don't really use the word
“assigned,” we say a photo's been “tagged”
with a keyword, as in, “It's tagged with
the keyword Indy.”
Step Two:
I tagged the photo selected in Step One
with three generic keywords when I
imported it—Indy, Racing, and Track.
To add another keyword, you'll see a
text field below the keyword field where
it literally reads, “Click here to add key-
words.” Just click in that field, and type
in the keyword you want to add (if you
want to add more than one keyword,
just put a comma between them), then
press the
Return (PC: Enter) key
. In
this case, I added the keywords “Close
up,” “red,” “#18,” and “Sonny's Real Pit
BBQ” (the main sponsor of this car).
Easy enough.
