[Tweeters] Lightroom Keywords

[Richard James via Tweeters]

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Jim,


> ? I am just learning Lightroom Classic.? LrC has a feature called 

> "keywords" which you can assign to the individual images and then

> use later to make finding prior images both easier and quicker.?


Keywords are a great tool for finding what/where/when.


> ? My photos are currently in folders arranged by place and date

> (month and year).


Good. If you use YYYY-MM-dd + place you can easily find folders by date.

It is also critical to keep a unique identifier for each image and all 
derivatives of it. Also, keep them all in the same folder.

My identifier is Camera - prefix - serial no

Camera, for example is "D85" (D850), Prefix is a 2-digit prefix as the 
camera will only got 9999 before recycling (many utils can do a batch 
rename, LR unfortunately is not flexible enough for me). And serial no 
is the no assigned by the camera (don't reset it).

This gives for example: D85-120753 this prefixes all derivatives that 
have a "what I did" suffix.


> And I add the bird ID to that info in my captions.? So, for example,

> a recent image I worked on is captioned "Yellow-winged Cacique -

> Puerto Vallarta 2022" and is in a folder called /Lumix/Puerto

> Vallarta 2022/.? Would you recommend that I just keep/reuse that

> same kind of hierarchy for my keywords?


For keywords it is best to use a hierarchy, minimum is place and species.

So:

a Location might be: National Parks/Pacific Rim/Tofino
and Species might be: Birds/Sandpiper/Marbelled Godwit

Or Birds/Godwit/Marbelled

So long as you are absolutely consistent this gives you the ability to 
filter by Date/Place/Species.

-- 
 From an Island in the Pacific,
Richard James, Victoria, BC