Tucked away in the keyword panel is a section called Keyword Set. There is another workflow enhancement built into Lightroom here. The sooner you get some basic keywords on an image the better off you'll be later. If you get in the habit of adding keywords early on you'll be glad you did.

In helping a Lightroom user, I tripped over a shortcut for entering 'child' keywords, which I hadn't previously encountered ...

Keywords in Lightroom are at the very foundation of organizing your images. If you ever want to find those images again you had better add some keywords now! Of course, as your collection of images grows, so does your list of keywords. In a previous article I talked about using hierarchies in your keyword list. This helps bring order to your collection and unclutter you list so you can find things. To further help you organize and unclutter, Lightroom supports synonyms. Let's take a look at this powerful feature.

One of the most powerful and useful features of Lightroom is its keyword capability. Not only can you create a useful set of keywords but Lightroom allows you to put those keywords into a hierarchical structure. This adds a further level of organization to your keywords. Instead of scrolling through an ever growing list of keywords, you can categorize them in a collapsible structure.

After using modern workflow tools, like Adobe Lightroom, for the last few years, I'm finding myself approaching a crisis point with keywords. When I first started really adding keywords to image metadata years back, I took the same approach many...

One of the many things that Lightroom 2.0 does to revolutionize the efficiency of your workflow is to make it much easier to keyword your images. It then goes another big step further by making it much easier to instantly...

One of the biggest problems with keywords is that there are so many synonyms in the English language. So how do you know that one specific keyword for one specific thing will always be the case? After all, if it's...

In my previous post: Plugins to Piglets, we explored some unique ways to extend Lightroom’s plugin architecture to automate the online delivery and post-processing of any select number of images. This week we’re going to dig deeper into the flickr...

Using standard keywords helps you and potential buyers find your images faster. Lightroom makes it easy to add structured keywords such as the Controlled Vocabulary list.

I'm not going to pretend that any of these are original ideas. In fact, if they were, most of them wouldn't be in Lightroom because I didn't suggest them. Thank heavens, others did, however. Ever since I arrived in Costa...

I'm writing this piece as part of my own journey of discovery while looking for ways to improve on my keywords. There are three reasons I want to do this: (1) I want to build a list of keywords that...