Finding Photos With Only Given Keywords
The problem with searching by keyword, is that Lightroom will show all the photos containing that keyword, whatever other keywords are present in that photo. What about the photos containing only that a specific keyword or keywords?
- Switch to the
Gridview of theLibrary - Empty the
Quick Collection + - Select
All Photographsin the Catalog - From the
Library filterselectMetadata - Select the
Keywordcolumn, click on the first keyword then go down to the last keyword and Shift-Click to select all the keywords. Do not just click the first entry sayingAll. - In the
Keywordcolumn deselect the keyword or the keywords that you want with Ctrl-Click on Windows or Cmd-Click on Mac. - Select all photos with Ctrl-A on Windows or Cmd-A on Mac.
- Switch to In the
Keywordcolumn by clicking once on the target keywords. - In In the
Editmenu, just select In theInvert Selection. - Press B to send the selected photos to the In the
Quick Collection +. - The photos that only have the keywords you have selected and no other keyword are in the
Quick Collection +.


