lbeck
Active Member
- Joined
- May 21, 2015
- Messages
- 150
- Location
- Hillsborough, NC
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- 6.x
- Lightroom Version Number
- 6.14
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I've been manipulating my Lr catalogs for some time now. Mostly because my "master" catalog became bloated with more than 45K photos. My latest manipulation was to parse out about 3000 images of scanned 35mm slides into a separate catalog . The primary reason for this latest activity is that I purchased a better slide scanner than the one that I used in the '80s and rescanned a couple thousand of my original slides. Some of the slides are no longer available to me (I've become the family photo archivist ;-) .
Bottom line is that my NEW catalog of scanned slides has no keywords. Fortunately in retrospect I named each slide with the date stamped on the cardboard slide frame. So what I now have is hundreds of slides from the old collection that have filenames with the same filename as the newly scanned slides. I can of course go slide-by-slide and copy keywords to the new photos. But is there a way to make this easier? In a perfect world I could export the filenames/keywords from both old and new collections to a database and copy keywords from old to new and then import the keywords to the new catalog. I'm fairly proficient using spreadsheets and could actually do this with an old, discontinued software (Ulead PhotoImpact). I have ListView and Lr file transporter from Photographers toolbox and haven't worked at all with Metadata tab resident in Lr.
Any comments or suggestions will be helpful - thanks.
Bottom line is that my NEW catalog of scanned slides has no keywords. Fortunately in retrospect I named each slide with the date stamped on the cardboard slide frame. So what I now have is hundreds of slides from the old collection that have filenames with the same filename as the newly scanned slides. I can of course go slide-by-slide and copy keywords to the new photos. But is there a way to make this easier? In a perfect world I could export the filenames/keywords from both old and new collections to a database and copy keywords from old to new and then import the keywords to the new catalog. I'm fairly proficient using spreadsheets and could actually do this with an old, discontinued software (Ulead PhotoImpact). I have ListView and Lr file transporter from Photographers toolbox and haven't worked at all with Metadata tab resident in Lr.
Any comments or suggestions will be helpful - thanks.