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alysonPB
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May 1, 2018
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How does searching work in Lightroom Online?

  • May 1, 2018
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I was curious as to how searching works in Lightroom Online. I was wondering if there was format to type information in order to have the search act a certain way? For example, could I type "lake and spring" to narrow the search for images tagged for both lake and spring or could I type "lake or spring" to search for images that are tagged with either lake or spring.

An example in a different search engine: In a Google search, you can "contain words in quotes" to set the rule that those words must appear together and exactly in that order - These are the sorts of rules I was wondering about.

Note: There is a filter system in Lightroom, though it's limited to rating, flags, video or photograph; I am not looking for how to use this.

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Correct answer Jim Wilde

My current understanding is that the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are only currently working on the Sensei autotags, and not yet on other metadata fields such as keywords, location names, titles, captions. I don't think quotes are relevant/necessary, and you can also use "+", "|", or "-" instead of the "AND", "OR", or "NOT". Capitals are not needed in the English language, but might be for other languages.

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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May 2, 2018

The search in Lightroom CC is run by an artificial intelligence. It understands boolean phrases such as "night and rainbow" being different than "night or rainbow" (see below) and does all kinds of image recognition stuff. I don't know whether the quote thing would work but my guess is that it would only be able to search titles and captions that way.

Interesting that the AI recognizes northern lights as a rainbow.

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alysonPBAuthor
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May 2, 2018

Thank you! This was helpful.

Jim Wilde
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May 2, 2018

My current understanding is that the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are only currently working on the Sensei autotags, and not yet on other metadata fields such as keywords, location names, titles, captions. I don't think quotes are relevant/necessary, and you can also use "+", "|", or "-" instead of the "AND", "OR", or "NOT". Capitals are not needed in the English language, but might be for other languages.

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