Working with Keywords

Question

I’m a new user of Adobe products. I exported my Apple Photos library to a new file on my iMac. That file is on my hard drive, with no connection to the originating Apple Photos system. The 16,000 exported photos have multiples of 90+ keywords associated to them.

When I click on the ‘Keywords’ tab, I see some of those keywords. I primarily see different, and inconsistently populated keywords. I tried to create some, and only some are populated. Within the ‘Filters’ tab, I see all of the keywords that are associated to the photos. Is there a way to reconcile the listing of keywords across ‘Keyword and Filter views’ of keywords?

When I look at these photos in Adobe Bridge 2020, on the ‘Filter’ tab within, the ‘Keywords or Essentials views’ I can filter the photos on any/all of those keywords. This works fine, but is cumbersome.

Is there a way to bundle groups of keywords, so I can open or close grouping of keywords to look/select. As it is now, I have to go through those 90+ keywords to select the grouping I want to see. An example of these desired groupings might include:

.Family Heading, Family member subgrouping

.Events Heading, Individual event (Specific events by year subgroupings

.Nature Grouping. Animals, plants, types of plants, insect subgroupings

.Years Grouping, Decades, individual years and/or month/day subgroupings

As I say, these segregations all ‘low level’ keywords associated to the photos appear in the ‘Filter’ views. It seems the discrepancy may be due to how/when the keyword is initially assigned. I’m just trying to synchronize ‘Keyword’ information among views and simplify the definition and selection for photo review.

Any guidance is appreciated

lfeiwel · Accepted Answer

Bridge sees the Keywords in your files but doesn't auto-add them to its internal list. I was working on a script that would read a folder and add all the keywords found but its not yet in release form. SO yes you must add your desired keywords.

I had created about 20 keywords, prior to import, that contained the original year of the photo in Roman numerals. I was lucky that I created them in Roman numerals, because just interrogating on date, given the number of metadata date fields, would have been worthless. If I used the 'roman numeral date' filter for each year, and then opened a photo, BR added that year keyword as well as any others that were assigned in that photo. So I only had to select 20 photos to obtain my 80+ keywords to appear in the keyword list...at least I think that's what happened.

I'm moving on to hierarchies, and an approach to not have BR take so long to 'rebuild' previews and thumbnails each and every time I open BR

Thanks for helping get me to understand how things work.

Lumigraphics · Answer

You might want to look through the Adobe help files to see if those get you there.

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/keywords-adobe-bridge.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/nested-hierarchal-keywording-bridge.html

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