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plmacca
plmacca
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July 26, 2019
Question

Searching LR for photos without keywords

  • July 26, 2019
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Since moving from LR Classic, the habit of adding or managing keywords has been difficult.  How do I search for photos that haven't got any keywords at all?

Ideally Classic and LR would sync keywords (as Classic this does allow such a filter), but this doesn't appear to be a feature that is supported.

-Paul

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    99jon
    99jon
    Legend
    July 26, 2019

    That would be a great feature request. I think many people would wish to search for photos without user keywords. It is possible to search for photos not in any album which will find orphan photos which may possibly not have keywords.

    Go to all photos and in the search box type album (don’t press return) but add a colon. Then scroll to the bottom of the list – see image below.

      plmacca
      plmaccaAuthor
      Participant
      July 27, 2019

      I will post a feature request. Thanks.

      Akash Sharma
      Akash Sharma
      Legend
      July 26, 2019

      Hi Paul,

      In Lightroom Classic you could search for images without any keywords by creating a smart collection, see Lightroom Classic: How to filter for Images with no Keywords | Photoshop Family Customer Community ​

      However, in Lightroom desktop there is no way of achieving this that I can think of. It does seems like a great idea, could you share this as a feature request here? Lightroom Desktop (Cloud-based) | Photoshop Family Customer Community This forum is monitored by our developers and they might look into it for future updates.

      Thanks,

      Akash

        plmacca
        plmaccaAuthor
        Participant
        July 27, 2019

        Thanks.  Will do.

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