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December 6, 2017
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changing UPPER to lowercase keywords in Bridge or Lightroom

  • December 6, 2017
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Hello,

Apologies if this has been covered, but I'm new and somewhat on a deadline.

I have a batch of about 1,000 images for work that have been tagged with a keyword and then an ID number. They are currently in uppercase, but I need them in lowercase. The keyword and the ID number are also in quotations (to qualify them as a single keyword together).

Example:

current keyword, including quotation marks:

"BLSSI.COM_PERSON_ID=964820"

ideal:

"blssi.com_person_id=964820"

If it weren't for the quotation marks, I think I could figure out how to batch-rename them, but since they are in quotation marks, it makes for every file (which all have different numbers at the end) being its own, separate keyword. Does that make sense? I'm looking for a way to just change the letters within the quotation marks to lower case instead of upper case.

Is there any hope for me? I can also work in Lightroom, but I'm not savvy with scripts or coding. I'm on a Mac with Bridge 2017 and Lightroom CC (I can upgrade if need be, too).

thanks

Laura

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

Hi Laura, yes there is hope!

I don’t have time to post the full solution now, however I’ll try to come back to you with an ExifTool example.

With luck somebody will post some script code for Bridge or Photoshop.

2 replies

ljnunez85Author
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December 19, 2017

Brilliant! This does work. I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to options for fixing these keywords now. Thank you (both!) again so much, and hey, happy holidays in your corner of the world!

Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
December 20, 2017

Not a problem Laura, please mark SuperMerlin’s reply #10 as the correct answer, thanks!

Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 6, 2017

Hi Laura, yes there is hope!

I don’t have time to post the full solution now, however I’ll try to come back to you with an ExifTool example.

With luck somebody will post some script code for Bridge or Photoshop.

ljnunez85Author
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2017

That would be awesome, but I would like to repeat that I don't know coding, and have never run a script before, so I would need that explained to me, if possible. I'm also on a company computer, so I don't want to mess anything up!

thanks so much Stephen

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 7, 2017

Don’t worry Laura, I’ll walk you through using ExifTool once I have time to workout the command line code…

As for Bridge scripts, you don’t need to know how to write scripts to use them. More here:

Prepression: Downloading and Installing Adobe Scripts