Multiple keyword search

[TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY]

I have been using Lr for about 6 months, I keyworded most of the photos, still have more to do. On some photos I used multiple keywords, and was wondering if I could search for more than one at a time. For example, I am looking for a bird in winter in a tree in the snow, the keywords I have are; bird, winter, snow and tree, can  I search for photos that have all four keywords?

[dj_paige]

In the Filter Bar, select "bird" as the keyword in column 1 of the Filter Bar, select "winter" as the keyword in Column 2 of the Filter Bar, and so on.

[Blue Baron II]

dj_paigeDo you mean Column 1 and 2 of the Metadata?  I don't know of any columns in the filter bar.

[johnrellis]

Here's what dj_paige is referring to:

[Blue Baron II]

Thanks.  That's what I thought he meant.

[Drew1house]

This was helpful... In the new versions of Lightroom I am not seeing the ability to add columns? The little drop down menu icon is not something I am seeing. How do you Add Column? 

[dj_paige]

This was helpful... In the new versions of Lightroom I am not seeing the ability to add columns? The little drop down menu icon is not something I am seeing. How do you Add Column?

Lightroom or Lightroom Classic? What exact version NUMBER?

[F. McLion · Accepted solution]

You can do this using the library filter bar. Open the text filter (Ctrl+F) and make sure the rule is set to 'Contains All'.

How to find photos in a catalog in Lightroom

[TRU-IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY]

Simple is good, thanks!

[sarkara1]

What if a keyword contains space, how then different keywords can be separated?

[dj_paige]

What have you tried? Does it work?

[sarkara1]

It doesn't work, if image A is tagged with "sparrow" and B with "jack sparrow", and I search for "contains all - jack sparrow sparrow" only B is found. "contains all - jack sparrow, sparrow" also finds only B. Changing to "contains" finds images tagged with jackson in addition to A and B. What a useless implementation!

[sarkara1]

I found that searching for "jack sparrow" doesn't find the images tagged with "sparrow", so, I guess, a workaround for finding images with overlapping keyeords is to use the common words. For example, searching for "sparrow" finds images tagged with "jack sparrow" and "sparrow".

[dj_paige]

It doesn't work, if image A is tagged with "sparrow" and B with "jack sparrow", and I search for "contains all - jack sparrow sparrow" only B is found. "contains all - jack sparrow, sparrow" also finds only B. Changing to "contains" finds images tagged with jackson in addition to A and B. What a useless implementation!

By @sarkara1

Seems like it is doing exactly what I would expect it to do. Image A does not meet the criteria Contains All Jack Sparrow, because it does not have the Jack in its keywords. What a well programmed and useful tool!

However, if you change Contains All to Contains you get different results, which may or may not be the results you want.