Applying Keywords...

[MMarz]

Assume a keyword hierarchy of:

-Wildlife
--Birds
---Owls
----Snowy Owls

Is there a way to apply the key word Snowy Owl such that Snowy Owl AND each of the parent Keywords, Owls, Birds and Wildlife are all applied at the same time?

 

[johnbeardy]

Assuming the hierarchy already exists (otherwise you can type owls>birds>wildlife), your hierarchy looks like it's designed not to input them all by inputting the lowest. Maybe that's just typing or html formatting, but try a hierarchy like this:
-Wildlife
--Birds
---Owls
----Snowy Owls

In Keywords, also look at the Will Export view.

Or you could use a metadata preset with just those keywords.

John

 

[MMarz]

Assuming the hierarchy already exists (otherwise you can type owls>birds>wildlife), your hierarchy looks like it's designed not to input them all by inputting the lowest. Maybe that's just typing or html formatting, but try a hierarchy like this:
-Wildlife
--Birds
---Owls
----Snowy Owls

In Keywords, also look at the Will Export view.

Or you could use a metadata preset with just those keywords.

John

John, thanks.. I edited my post.. I already have the setup described.. Snowy a child of Owls, Owls child of Birds and Birds a child of Wildlife. When I tag with Snowy, I want also Owls, Birds and Wildlife

 

[kwdaves]

Under "Edit Keywords" checking "Will Export" and "Export Containing Keywords" will do it. The default setting in Lightroom is for them to be checked. I have exactly the same hierarchy. Using the Vista convention that uses "/" as a hierarchical keyword separator, I have, for example, Wildlife/Birds/Woodpeckers/Downy Woodpecker. I envy you your Snowy Owls.

 

[johnbeardy]

The fact that they will export is not enough? So you would assign snowy owl, LR would imply all 4 levels, and would bake them all into the file when it's exported.

LR's upon-export method is flexible. Let's imagine you do add all 4 levels of keyword directly as you want, rather than just the snowy owl keyword. If you then decide Owls should be a top level keyword, you could move it and its children elsewhere, but the images would still have the birds and wildlife keywords assigned. In your example, that would probably be OK, but in other cases it could be a pain.

You could add the keywords as synonyms of snowy owl. Alternatively, as I suggested before, a metadata preset will do it but only makes sense if you often photograph the same subject. You can also build them into a keyword set - you can type in child>parent into the keyword set edit dialog.

John

 

[kwdaves]

Michael, if you want to see all the keywords in the hierarchy in Lightroom's Keyword Tags panel, then choose "Keywords and Containing Keywords" in the panel.

 

[topanga]

In the Keyword Box add the keywords as follows and they will be included together:

Snowy Owls > Owls > Birds > Wildlife

 

[fotojensen]

I am a wildlife photographer from Norway, we have a list of all the birds in Europe, All the Animals in Europe, a list of all the regions in Norway. And finally, a list that cower general stuff, buildings, insects etc.
I had to delete a lot of keywords that was bad choices of mine.
I discover that when i saw the list that this guy had made, wow.
The guy that made this list sell it from hes website, and i think that if you are going to take key wording seriously, this is the way to go. I pay a few dollar for the list, and can import a well organized list in to Lightroom, and start adding keywords right away. If something is missing it is easy to add it in the hiarchy.
Starting to organize a strukture of keywords is not always so easy that it sounds.
There must be some one in the states, that have made a list like this?
If not, someone should make it!
I am so happy with this keyword list, all my keywords are organized in a hiarchy.