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jim_st
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April 8, 2014
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P: Support for keyword and metadata editing

  • April 8, 2014
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I'd really, really like to be able to do keywording on my iPad in the LR mobile app. Could save me a lot of Google-time back at the desktop trying to figure just where I was standing for that shot, and what's the name of that building, mountain, river, village etc, etc

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    guido.bartoli
    guido.bartoli
    Participating Frequently
    July 31, 2022

    Ok, I just realized that this works only with keywords assigned to ALL the selected images, so I think that removing "partially" assigned keywords can be done first by filtering by those keywords and then removing them like in the previous case, right?

     

    guido.bartoli
    guido.bartoli
    Participating Frequently
    July 31, 2022
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    just hover the mouse cursor over the target keyword in the list and it will turn red with a line through it. Clicking at that point deletes the keyword from all the assigned images, and thus removes it completely from the list.


    By @Jim Wilde

     

    Every step is fine until this, but when I hover the mouse on a keyword, no red line appears for deletion, only the "Apply tag to all the selected images" is showed.

    guido.bartoli
    guido.bartoli
    Participating Frequently
    June 26, 2022

    I'm using Lightroom 5.4 on Mac and I recently migrated my whole Lightroom Classic catalog to the new Cloud-based service.

     

    After the migration, however, I am experiencing some issues with keywords. Photos in which people were present were correctly grouped in the "People View" and also had keywords matching the people's names. In the new Lightroom I noticed that even if these keywords are removed, the name search still works if the person is present in the new "People" panel, effectively rendering all those previous people keywords useless.

     

    This is fine with me, however, unlike in Lightroom Classic, in the new Lightroom I can't find a summary of all the keywords present so that I can easily manage them (particularly renaming and/or deleting them, in this case). I am currently scrolling through one photo at a time with the "Keywords" panel open and manually removing them one by one, but it is very time-consuming and inefficient.

     

    Do you have any plans to improve keyword handling in future versions of Lightroom?

     

    Thanks

      melissapiccone
      melissapiccone
      Community Expert
      June 27, 2022

      Lightroom doesn't use keywords. The search uses artificial intelligence to match pictures. If you search for red chair, it will look at the photos and return images with a red chair. 

      Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
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      chrisb123456
      Participating Frequently
      September 13, 2019
      I wonder if we should start a new thread. This got marked "Implemented" which is clearly not the case. I wonder if this 5 year old thread has fallen by the way side because of it being marked Implemented?
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      chrisb123456
      Participating Frequently
      October 29, 2018
      I agree with the recent sentiments here. This feature is not implemented. Please implemented feature parity and syncing with the hierarchical keywords used in Classic.
      Charlyw64
      Charlyw64
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      August 17, 2018
      Can someone please remove the "implemented" from this request? It is NOT implemented!
      Charlyw64
      Charlyw64
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      July 17, 2018
      I don't know why this is tagged "implemented". It's far from being implemented, there is a basic "placebo" keyword editing but it stands out like a sore thumb. You can't search offline, it doesn't sync with LR Classic CC. Please give it some proper attention and complete that functionality so that those who can't use the "all in cloud" version (have you guys seen the extortionate rates for mobile bandwidth in countries like Germany - or the shoddy coverage once you are a bit further away from the nearest big city, most of the time I have edge network if at all and that's with the carrier that has the best coverage across the country) can use LR CC in conjunction with LR Classic CC...
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      Shield_London
      New Participant
      July 2, 2018
      It seems four years on and key wording and EXIF/IPTC support is still sketchy. A major and time consuming part of editing is key wording, including location editing, etc. However, even though we can now add keywords, we still do not have a true sync with keywords that have already been created in Classic nor can we access a hierarchical keyword structure. This means duplicated work and the possibility of spelling mistakes. LR Classic stores all hierarchical keywords in a simple, tiny text file that already imports/exports easily between portfolios, so why not have a proper sync between Classic and CC Mobile please. It would save us all many, many hours and the need to care extra notes around.
      JohanElzenga
      JohanElzenga
      Community Expert
      June 15, 2018
      I don’t think that Lightroom Mobile is intended as a pro tool. The fact that it has a built-in camera app speaks for itself.
      -- Johan W. Elzenga
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