LIBRARY - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 124

do the bulk of your keywording work separately from other photo editing tasks.
Periodically update your Keyword List: check for typos and spelling errors, create
or i x parent/child hierarchies, update keyword sets and synonyms and purge
unused keywords.

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Remember that when you change any keyword in the list, Lightroom
automatically updates all the photos containing that keyword.

Import/Export Keywords
You can import and export lists of keywords to and from Lightroom. h es e are
simple text i les with a .txt extension. Today, many photographers are sharing
keyword lists with each other. Getting keyword lists from other photographers
can assist you in deciding how you want to set up your own list. You can also use
Import and Export keywords to keep Keyword Lists on multiple computers and
catalogs in sync.

Metadata ➔ Import Keywords…
To import a keyword list into your catalog.

Metadata ➔ Export Keywords…
To export a keyword list i le from your catalog.

Some of the places you can get keyword lists on the Web (Google these):

• C ontrolled Vocabulary

• S ean McCormick

• N ick Potter

• D-65

• Fleetin g Glimpse

• B irdkeywords.com

When you get keyword lists from other people, you can open them in a text
editor or spreadsheet to see their contents. You can modify your own or others'
keyword lists using your text editor prior to importing it into Lightroom. In many
cases this saves lots of time, because you can establish hierarchies using simple
word processing: in a keyword text i le, Lightroom hierarchies are determined by
tab levels.