Lightroom — Keywords
Lightroom — Keywords
Keywording must be the least popular part of any photographer’s workflow. The problem is that there are about 60 billion photos on the web1! Over 95 million photos in the various “big” stock agencies.
- The right keywords and you can retrieve your photo. The right keywords and the photo-buyers will find your photos.
- If people can't find your photos, they won't buy your photos. It's that simple. For images, the more keywords the better! Yahoo did a study that showed that photos with 250 keywords performed much better than photos with 50 keywords, as long that you do not spam2 and as long as the keywords are relevant to your photos. The right keywords will make the difference.
- The biggest problem in keywording is inconsistent keywords with for example: Drink and Drinks or Smoke and Smoking and Cigarette…
3500+ keywords in 21 categories and 175+ sub-categories:
Lightroom: Categories — Keywords
You can customize, enhance the list to fit your own needs.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
Guaranty
There is a 1 year, 100% full satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied, you will receive a full refund, but I will ask you a few questions so I can improve the “Lightroom — Keywords” list/taxonomy.
What you get
A zip file that contains 2 text files:
- The “Lightroom — Keywords” named:
Lightroom-Keywords.txt
- A README.txt file that has the instructions for importing the keywords in your Lightroom.
Questions
Click on the link to email: Lightroom — Keywords question
The “turn around time” is usually within 24 hrs, as long as I am not traveling. When traveling, that will depend on whether I have Internet access, in some countries, foreigners are not allowed to use Internet cafes…
License
The license and usage is similar to Lightroom's. This mean that apart from the usual, (in plain English) such as:
- Do not redistribute my taxonomy3.
- Do not resale my taxonomy.
- Do not use the taxonomy to create derivative work to be resold.
- You can install the taxonomy onto a maximum of 2 (two) computers, such as one on your office computer and one on your laptop for when you are in the field.
Do I have to use PayPal?
You do not have to become a PayPal member to purchase the “Lightroom — Keywords”. PayPal is our payment service provider, you do not have to have a PayPal account. You will be directed to enter your credit card and address to complete your purchase.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
Instructions
To unzip the file
- On Windows: You can either use WinZip or IzArc which is free.
- On Mac: It's already included in most of the recent versions of OSx.
Backup, backup and backup
Before doing any important operation in Lightroom, you should backup your Lightroom catalog. Detailed instructions are at: Backing up Your Catalog
Please note that if there is a problem and you do not have a current backup, I will not be able to help.
Suggestion
You should delete all of your unused existing keywords
- Switch to the
LIBRARY module
- Menu: Metadata → Purge Unused Keywords
To unzip the file
On Windows: You can either use WinZip or IzArc which is free.
On Mac: It's already included in most of the recent versions of OSx.
Extract the zip file
Please remember which directory you are extracting the files, you will need that location when you will import the keywords into Lightroom.
To import the “Lightroom — Keywords”
- Switch to the
LIBRARY module
- Menu: Metadata → Import Keywords
- Select the file: “Lightroom-Keywords.txt”
Mixing/Moving your own existing keywords with “lightroom-keywords.txt”
- I suggest that you should delete all of your unused existing keywords
- Switch to the
LIBRARY module
- Menu: Metadata → Purge Unused Keywords
- Drag each keyword to the “correct” category. Lightroom will update the keywords in the photos.
- I suggest that when you are done with moving the keywords around, you should select all of your photos in the
LIBRARY module, GRID view and select from the menu: Metadata → Save Metadata to File.
- Depending on the number of photos, the speed of your computer, the speed of your hard drive, it could take hours, many hours.
- After doing any important operation in Lightroom, you should backup your Lightroom catalog. Detailed instructions are at: Backing up your catalog.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
1 Give or take a couple of billions of photos. Facebook is the number one with 35 billion photos, 220 million new photos every week and serving over 550 thousands photos per second. ↑
2 Repeat or steal brand name keywords ↑
3 Taxonomy: classification arranged in a hierarchical structure ↑
Lightroom — Keywords
Keywording must be the least popular part of any photographer’s workflow. The problem is that there are about 60 billion photos on the web1! Over 95 million photos in the various “big” stock agencies.
- The right keywords and you can retrieve your photo. The right keywords and the photo-buyers will find your photos.
- If people can't find your photos, they won't buy your photos. It's that simple. For images, the more keywords the better! Yahoo did a study that showed that photos with 250 keywords performed much better than photos with 50 keywords, as long that you do not spam2 and as long as the keywords are relevant to your photos. The right keywords will make the difference.
- The biggest problem in keywording is inconsistent keywords with for example: Drink and Drinks or Smoke and Smoking and Cigarette…
3500+ keywords in 21 categories and 175+ sub-categories:
Lightroom: Categories — Keywords
You can customize, enhance the list to fit your own needs.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
Guaranty
There is a 1 year, 100% full satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied, you will receive a full refund, but I will ask you a few questions so I can improve the “Lightroom — Keywords” list/taxonomy.
What you get
A zip file that contains 2 text files:
- The “Lightroom — Keywords” named:
Lightroom-Keywords.txt - A README.txt file that has the instructions for importing the keywords in your Lightroom.
Questions
Click on the link to email: Lightroom — Keywords question
The “turn around time” is usually within 24 hrs, as long as I am not traveling. When traveling, that will depend on whether I have Internet access, in some countries, foreigners are not allowed to use Internet cafes…
License
The license and usage is similar to Lightroom's. This mean that apart from the usual, (in plain English) such as:
- Do not redistribute my taxonomy3.
- Do not resale my taxonomy.
- Do not use the taxonomy to create derivative work to be resold.
- You can install the taxonomy onto a maximum of 2 (two) computers, such as one on your office computer and one on your laptop for when you are in the field.
Do I have to use PayPal?
You do not have to become a PayPal member to purchase the “Lightroom — Keywords”. PayPal is our payment service provider, you do not have to have a PayPal account. You will be directed to enter your credit card and address to complete your purchase.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
Instructions
To unzip the file
- On Windows: You can either use WinZip or IzArc which is free.
- On Mac: It's already included in most of the recent versions of OSx.
Backup, backup and backup
Before doing any important operation in Lightroom, you should backup your Lightroom catalog. Detailed instructions are at: Backing up Your Catalog
Please note that if there is a problem and you do not have a current backup, I will not be able to help.
Suggestion
You should delete all of your unused existing keywords
- Switch to the
LIBRARYmodule - Menu: Metadata → Purge Unused Keywords
To unzip the file
On Windows: You can either use WinZip or IzArc which is free. On Mac: It's already included in most of the recent versions of OSx.
Extract the zip file
Please remember which directory you are extracting the files, you will need that location when you will import the keywords into Lightroom.
To import the “Lightroom — Keywords”
- Switch to the
LIBRARYmodule - Menu: Metadata → Import Keywords
- Select the file: “Lightroom-Keywords.txt”
Mixing/Moving your own existing keywords with “lightroom-keywords.txt”
- I suggest that you should delete all of your unused existing keywords
- Switch to the
LIBRARYmodule - Menu: Metadata → Purge Unused Keywords
- Switch to the
- Drag each keyword to the “correct” category. Lightroom will update the keywords in the photos.
- I suggest that when you are done with moving the keywords around, you should select all of your photos in the
LIBRARYmodule,GRIDview and select from the menu: Metadata → Save Metadata to File. - Depending on the number of photos, the speed of your computer, the speed of your hard drive, it could take hours, many hours.
- After doing any important operation in Lightroom, you should backup your Lightroom catalog. Detailed instructions are at: Backing up your catalog.
- $10.95 US Dollars
By clicking the Buy Now button, you will open a new tab/window on Paypal.com. After successful payment, you will receive instructions for downloading your “Lightroom — Keywords”.
1 Give or take a couple of billions of photos. Facebook is the number one with 35 billion photos, 220 million new photos every week and serving over 550 thousands photos per second. ↑
2 Repeat or steal brand name keywords ↑
3 Taxonomy: classification arranged in a hierarchical structure ↑
