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march52368065
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March 7, 2024
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Keyworded images in Lightroom - Searched in Bridge

  • March 7, 2024
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Hi,

 

I have been using Lightroom as a catalogue to keyword and quickly find/view images. These keywords are only written to the catalogue and not to the actual image metadata.

 

I would like to be able to use Bridge to search by keyword and quickly find/view these images.

 

I have tried using the dropdown in Lightroom (see screenshot), this assigns the keywords to the image metadata. However, I can't search for the image by keyword in bridge until I have opened that specific folder/image in Bridge. Once opened I am able to search and view by keyword.

 

The issue is I have a over 10k images that are in various folders that I need to quickly access in Bridge via keywords. Is there a more time efficient way to assign the keywords from the Lightroom catalogue to the images and view in Bridge without manually opening each file in Bridge.

 

I hope this makes sense and appreciate any ideas.

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 7, 2024

    Please, which LR are you using: Lightroom Desktop or Lightroom Classic?

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    march52368065Author
    Participant
    March 7, 2024

    Classic

    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 7, 2024

    Hi, @march52368065, there is a setting in LRC that you need to check: Go to the LRC menu and scroll down to Catalogue Settings. From there, go to the third tab and check the following box:

     This will automatically send any Keywords to that file's XMP.  To test this, after setting this checkbox. take any file and enter a keyword. Now, rightclick on the thumbnail of that file and select Show in Finder. Display that folder (of files) in Bridge. Select the file you just entered a keyword in, and then tap Command-i. you will see that keyword in the Metadata: keywords field.

     

    Now, I do have a question for you: if you are familiar with LRC, and you're working with over 10k files, why are you then continuing with Bridge for this project? Let me state that I use Bridge daily, but for large collections, I stay in LRC (I have about 100,000 images my LRC's Catalog). There is nothing that you can do in Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw that you can't do in LRC (plus a whole lot more). Keep in mind that LRC is ACR with a database. Thus, while in LRC, you have instant access to all the files in the Catalog, and depending on how you either keyword and/or folder store, finding files is always as fast as you are.

     

    Obviously I do not know the nature of your files, nor what you are doing with them or plan on doing with them. But for all of my images that I need short-term access and function with, I use Bridge. But for any file that I want for long-term and or subsequent processing of, I use LRC. If you have any questions, please just ask.

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    Lumigraphics
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    March 7, 2024

    Assign all the keywords and export in LR. Use View->Show items from subfolders in Bridge to display everything and wait until the Bridge cache is build anfd everything indexed.

    Be aware that there are bugs between dc:subject and lr:hierarchicalSubject (where keywords are stored) so only use one app or the other to make changes to keywords. Otherwise you can end up with a huge mess.

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