Lightroom (Classic) Tutorial Using Keywords

[@suegilmore8000]

Easy-to-follow tutorial, full of easy to understand information. Thanks!

[@tv510]

Thank you so much for your avid participation. I appreciate your support.

[@HungerJohn]

Your videos are always what I need, it seems that we have the fate of mentor and apprentice. In less than a month since I purchased the Z9, I have purchased five lenses and taken more than a thousand photos. Was looking for a photo management tutorial, and here's your video! Thanks again, my master.

[@andrewlamberson539]

Of all the video I have watched on this subject….YOU explained it in a nice pace, the hows and whys….and it makes sense! Also bought your book!

[@tv510]

Thanks Andrew! I appreciate the kind words and for buying my book.

[@gordontrump9811]

These are great presentations. As a beginner who is lost in complexity of Lightroom, I find your clear explanation of LRC just what I need to orient myself to photo editing. Thanks GT

[@tv510]

You are welcome Gordon. Thanks for watching.

[@susannamarisalokannel]

Likewise!

[@1989ann2001]

Today I purchased your e-book; thank you so much. And Thank You your videos are extremely helpful; I have no problem following your tutorials.

[@tv510]

I appreciate that, thank you.

[@SavaKrstic-q9l]

Thanks!

[@tv510]

Wow! Thank you very much, that is so nice of you to do.

[@JustinSmithWY]

These are really good. Again, I've been poking around for a few days and watched a lot of tutorials. These are the first that step through in a way that I understand (and can take notes from, haha) and find very useful.

[@tv510]

Welcome Justin. Good luck on your journey.

[@JustinSmithWY]

@@tv510 Well I pretended to be a photographer way back in the day (1990s - 2000s), but life and cell phones got in the way for a long time although I never lost the bug. I finally picked up a Fujifilm XT-5 and am *really* enjoying trying to take real photos again. It helps that I keep injuring myself in my other pursuits but I can still get around enough to attempt photography, haha!

[@tv510]

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[@dataventurer9998]

Another helpful video as I binge-watch your vids on Lightroom tonight! Thank you!

[@tv510]

Thanks DataVenturer for watching.

[@MrM3hm3t]

Thank you Terry Vander Heiden for another great video. Your explanation and attention to details is great.

[@tv510]

You are very welcome.

[@tomwilliams5215]

thanks again for this series - really appreciate the effort

[@tv510]

My pleasure! I have more to come.

[@chopardguy]

Another excellent video was waiting for these lessons thanks for delivering another episode of the lightroom tutorial.

[@tv510]

You are welcome, Nevan!

[@svenfjall]

As usually a perfect tutorial. Thanks!

[@tv510]

Thank you.

[@andrewgentner6169]

Very knowledgeable. Can't wait till the next video!

[@tv510]

Thanks Andrew, another Lightroom one coming soon.

[@pauloamaral668]

Nice tutorial, once again ! Always learning! Thks

[@tv510]

My pleasure! Glad you like the videos!

[@bmessenger1022]

Thanks Terry! Great videos!

[@tv510]

Glad you like them!

[@michaelmcphee2930]

Easily understood thank you. I have tried to find out via books and and various videos how to delete words from the Keywording Panel itself without deleting them from the Keyword List. Any clues please?

[@tv510]

Here's is how I have done that; In the Keyword Set, use the pull down where is says custom, at the bottom is says Edit Set. It's in this panel that I can delete a keyword or fix a mis-spelling (which is typical for me 😀) Not sure this helps you, but it's the way I work with the lists. Thanks for watching.

[@michaelmcphee2930]

@@tv510 wow! thanks for taking the time out to reply. You're very easy to listen to. Thank you for the advice it worked. Look forward to following you.

[@tv510]

@@michaelmcphee2930 No problem Michael. Thanks for the follow!

[@mauro.orlando]

I begun using keywords years ago as you show in the video and came to a mess of hundreds of items with a lot of similar keywords etc. Recently I started organizing my keyword list in a hierarchy with master categories (such as place, subject, ...) and sub-categories (for instance putting the keyword for a specific species of bear species under "Bear" keyword. Is a huge effort I'm still working on but I see the light at the and of the tunnel and applying keywords to new images has begun easier and consistent. Would like to know your approach with that.

[@tv510]

Hi Mauro, I gravitate to more collections both smart and regular to keep each catalog organized. The keywords are great idea and work fantastic if you have one large catalog. That way a simple text search can find whatever you want. Your keyword organization idea sound fantastic.

[@andrewkeir2282]

Working my way through your Lightroom videos, apart from your spelling (sic) they are brilliant

[@tv510]

Ha! My writing tutorials are still in the development stages. 😄Glad these are working for you.

[@kirstengregg6360]

Very helpful & explained well!

[@tv510]

Hi Kristen, Glad you think so! Thanks for watching.

[@kittyinasock]

No one (that I know of) ever suggests using Stacks to organize images. For example, I have thousand of portrait images: children, men, women, surreal portraits, etc.). If I have 1000 portraits of women, using "portrait" as a keyword brings up every one of the examples mentioned, including men, children, etc.. So instead, I create a separate stack for each of the categories noted above. In addition, I create a graphic denoting the category in question, such as "Portraits of Women, Portraits of Teens, Portraits of Men," etc., which serves as the cover thumbnail for each category. This method also extends to Landscapes, Still Lifes, Flowers, Wallpapers, Food, and so forth. In effect, I'm compartmentalizing specific subjects into sub-categories. This is not to say I don't use keywords at all, but I can then open the stack of a specific category and do a search from within that category alone, rather than searching through an entire catalog for a specific image. In the category of Children, for example, I can search for blondes, smiles, sad, happy, etc. Just a suggestion.

[@tv510]

Hi Daniel, thanks for including the info about stacks. Lightroom as so many options and that is a good one. Thanks again.

[@Synthalog]

Stacks is designed for variations of the same image, not as a repository

[@edhickl205]

I do this and also while adding keywords I add captions, titles and location to my metadata. This helps not only with searching for photos I also can setup slide show in LR and have the caption or title and location show up on the slide. Maybe another tutorial idea for you Terry- slide show.

[@tv510]

Thanks Ed, good idea. You can add lots of things to the metadata, I also add a copyright that follows the images around when seen online. Pretty cool.

[@DellanaMetalArts]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@tv510]

You are welcome Dellana!

[@johnnyguerra3754]

As a newbie to lightroom, I find your videos the best. Newbie question, does LRC have a means to search all catalogs at once. Say you want to search all Cooper's Hawks over the past year. They are in different catalogs. Will the search pull all of them?

[@tv510]

No, LRC can only search one catalog. This is why I make one catalog (per year) and then organize by collections. So a search all photographs will result in searching the entire catalog.

[@johnnyguerra3754]

@@tv510 thanks for the reply. I will start this process next year.

[@elswillems855]

Although English is not my native language, (Dutch is) I can follow your video's very good. Thank you for making them! They are very instructive. I have one question: to make a photobook I export the foto's from LRC to another file in my computer. Do I have to import them again in LRC to keep my catalogue complete?

[@tv510]

Thanks for watching. When making an export, it’s like making a copy of your images. They will all still remain in your catalog. However, sometimes if I am making a book and there are multiple images to a page, I may re-import those PAGES of the book,(all JPEGS). back into LRC, just to keep all the pages that I created. Bedankt voor het kijken. Wanneer u een export maakt, is het alsof u een kopie van uw afbeeldingen maakt. Ze blijven allemaal nog steeds in uw catalogus staan. Als ik echter een boek aan het maken ben en er meerdere afbeeldingen op een pagina staan, kan het zijn dat ik die PAGINA'S van het boek (allemaal JPEGS) opnieuw importeer. terug naar LRC, gewoon om alle pagina's te behouden die ik heb gemaakt.

[@elswillems855]

@@tv510 Thanks for your very quick answer! So that is why I sometimes get the answer: "you already imported this photo". But I can't edit that exported photo anymore, is that right?

[@tv510]

@@elswillems855 Yep, its the same image. An export essentially is a copy of the image in your catalog. Good luck!

[@NR-cm2nw]

You explain things very clearly. I followed your video about creating catalogues but it would be helpful to show how how you find the photos again. Do you open the hardrive and then open the LR catalogue as all my photos on the HD have been put in to folders based on date taken by LR automatically . These folders seem to sit outside of the Gorst Catalogue. Or do you open them in LR? If so I cant find them at all. I am a little confused🙂

[@tv510]

Make sure that when you are loading new images, that they go into the main folder where all of you images reside. Those should all be on a removable hard drive. (backed up to a second drive). As long as they are in the one main folder - you can always find them. When you open your catalog, all of those images should propagate. If you are having little exclamation points show up on your images while in the catalog, let me know.

[@cfrates2703]

I have over 12,000 photos (over approx 10 years) that I would like to bring into Lightroom and categorize into folders. I don't want to pull them in until I have a plan of organizing them. Is there a way that lightroom can help me to at least sort these out initially? Thank you for the very easy to understand videos.

[@tv510]

I don’t know an easy way, but what I would do is make a new folder inside, put a new LRC catalog, import all 12000 do everything is in the same folder. Catalog and images . Copy that folder to backup somewhere, then make collections and keywords to sort all the images. It will take some time but you will be happy when it’s done. And it won’t take 10 years. 😄

[@cfrates2703]

@@tv510 Thank you for your quick reply. I was considering to initially sort on the date in Metadata. Thinking that may group my photos according to what I shot. Is it possible to sort by the Metadata date?

[@tv510]

@@cfrates2703 when making collections, yes. But best to start a clean catalog.

[@scubadaisy5258]

super helpfulllllll😊

[@tv510]

I'm so glad!

[@AS-oj3cw]

What about AI auto tagging instead of having to enter a dozen tags for 10,000 images?

[@tv510]

I sure that would work. It all how much you want to put into it.

[@b991228]

Aspect ratio, pano, long exposure, fog, Ziggy, …😊

[@melaniezette886]

Metadata is the most powerfull tool in lirary

[@tv510]

It really is amazing how much data is right there at your fingertips. Thanks for watching.