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Lightroom and Keywords Part II - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
As keywords are a very important feature to manage pictures in Lightroom, it is essential to come up with a workflow one is comfortable with to register keywords for images. It takes time and effort to record keywords for...
[April 10, 2007]
Lightroom and Keywords Part III - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
Last week I mentioned different ways in Lightroom to tag pictures. On of these methods is "Keyword sets," and I'm going to talk about that feature in more detail right now. Keyword sets are basically a grouping of keyboard...
[April 17, 2007]
Lightroom and Keywords Part I - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
It is very easy these days to find information on the net with search engines such as Google. Useful data can be retrieved by searching for a word or phrase, given by the user, in a database that includes almost...
[April 05, 2007]
Keywords, Keywords, and More Keywords - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Micah Walter
I recently came across a cool add-on for Aperture. David Riecks, who currently chairs the SAA Imaging Technology Standards Committee, has a small but very useful product called Controlled Vocabulary. The keyword dictionary is available for Aperture users as well...
[July 17, 2007]
Lightroom and Keywords Part V - Synonyms - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
Synonyms are a very powerful feature of Lightroom Keyword system. It allows you to define for each keyword in you keyword list synonyms that save time, especially when keywording for stock agencies, Lightroom, Photosharing sites etc. to maximize changes of...
[May 08, 2007]
Lightroom and Keywords Part IV - Hierarchical Structure - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
In many programs, keyword structure can be a flat, one dimensional list of words that are hard to manage as their numbers grow. In the program that I used previously, I had a keyword list of around 300, and that...
[April 25, 2007]
Two Keyword Management Questions - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Josh Anon
Last week, a coworker of mine asked two great keyword questions, which have inspired this week's blog post. The first is that he's ended up with a number of identical-yet-different keywords, such as "bob," "Bob," "BOb," etc.. He was wondering...
[August 29, 2007]
Keywords Got The Power - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Ken Milburn
One thing I'm re-discovering as Lightroom makes maintenance chores easier, is the power of keywords when it comes to assembling candidates for a project-type, such as one-off books, greeting cards, calendars, and stock photo categories is the power of keywords....
[March 08, 2007]
Easy Trick for Cleaning Up Keywords - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Ken Milburn
It is so easy to add keywords to whole groups of images that I'd be willing to bet that a lot of images have inherited keywords that you never meant them to have. For instance, you can highlight a whole...
[July 05, 2007]
Using Keywords and Smart Albums Instead of Labels - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Ellen Anon
Last week Josh introduced us both and gave three great tips. This week I'm going to be describing some of the ways I use Aperture in my everyday workflow. I thought I'd describe one way that I use Smart Albums...
[April 04, 2007]
Keywords and Multiple Libraries - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Ben Long
Many Aperture users are finding multiple libraries to be the key to their organizational woes. As Derrick Story described here, Aperture 1.5 provides a simple way to switch between multiple libraries. However you choose to make the switch from one...
[February 21, 2007]
O'Reilly -- Managing Digital Images: Applying Ratings and Keywords
By Peter Krogh
The explosion of digital imaging has left professional and serious amateur photographers drowning in photographs, with little guidance on how to store, sort and organize them. In this excerpt from The DAM Book, Peter Krogh shows you expert techniques...
[February 24, 2006]
Using the Painter tool to quickly select a group of related images. - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By George Mann
I have to confess that I'm not the most diligent user of keyword, so when I am looking for specific related images, I have to hunt through a number of folders that I know contain the images I am looking...
[August 03, 2007]
Track Your Photos Out in the Wild - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By David Miller
Lightroom’s keywording infrastructure is pretty straightforward: by applying any number of keywords to your photos, you are essentially creating a catalog that can be searched through to retrieve photos that match your desired criteria. I have been pretty diligent about...
[November 28, 2007]
Tracking Your Photos: The Next Step? - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By David Miller
My last post describes how I started (loosely) keeping track of where my photos end up. For example, my photos published in Fast Forward have the “Fast Forward” keyword applied to them through my “Exported” keyword set. However, I’d like...
[December 05, 2007]
A Suggested Alternative Lightroom Workflow - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Ken Milburn
Ideally, most of us preach that you should organize your Lightroom workflow along the lines of the order in which the Lightroom modules appear. So you should start in the by adding the metadata and keywords, delete the images that...
[December 06, 2007]
Lightroom's Organizing Features -- Part Deux - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Jan Kabili
The many ways to organize photos in Lightroom include not only folders and keywords, which I covered in Part 1 of this post. Take things a step further and try out collections, Quick Collections, and stacks. Here's a quick guide...
[February 23, 2007]
Beginner's Luck: The Seductive Lure of Lightroom's Develop Module - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Colleen Wheeler
Did you ever sit down to diligently apply keywords to your images in Lightroom's Library module, only to be distracted by a particular shot that you just know could really be made fabulous with just a few tweaks in the...
[August 02, 2007]
Lightroom: Open system and multi platform - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
It's a big decision when you decide on an application and platform to manage your pictures. In a few years time, your picture library might reach thousands upon thousands of images, and if the pictures are all tagged with keywords...
[February 26, 2007]
Lightroom and the future of organizing photos - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Johann Gudbjargarson
Let's face it - organizing photos today by location, subject, keywords, people etc. can be a cumbersome task. A photographer must be a very organized to stay on top of these tasks, especially when assignments include different locations, subjects and...
[March 13, 2007]
Captioning Pictures - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By James Duncan Davidson
Without a doubt, the most tedious activity for me in processing a shoot is applying keywords and writing captions. There's magic in the develop module when you make a photo the best it can be. And the process of ranking...
[May 09, 2007]
My Ratings Workflow - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Bakari Chavanu
Next to attaching keywords to digital photos, rating them in any digital management program is a necessary hassle. And it doesn't make the process any easier when you have hundreds or thousands of images to rate on a regular basis....
[June 01, 2007]
Prep with Pre-Sets - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Steve Simon
In Aperture, I want to make my time at the laptop as efficient as possible. To do this, I want to be able to import quickly, with as much information as possible, as well as add as many relevant keywords...
[August 19, 2007]
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