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leighm26990353
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August 29, 2013
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P: Custom sort order of keywords (instead of alphabetic).

  • August 29, 2013
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Lightroom needs to stop re-ordering our keywords into an alphabetical order. People who are keywording for stock agencies and other purposes need to order their keywords most important and relevant first. Lightroom ruins this for us. I can't believe it's version 5 and Lightroom hasn't figured this out. Lightroom is single-handedly ruining our sales based on keyword searches. Thanks Adobe

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    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    August 30, 2013
    Is custom sorting of keywords specified in the IPTC standard? If not, LR isn't doing anything wrong and it's really a feature request.
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    leighm26990353Author
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    August 30, 2013
    I'm not on Alamy. But, no, Lightroom does this as soon as you hit enter on your keywords or leave that area of LR. It's definitely a LR issue, and every answer I see to this issue on the Web is that there's nothing you can do about it. So LR needs to change it.
      john beardsworth
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      john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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      August 30, 2013
      Isn't it only Alamy that ranks images in this way?

      There is an Alamy plugin somewhere, and I suspect its author would have addressed this issue.
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