- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version 10.3
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Il am new to Lightroom and need a bit of help. Tutorials and videos on the Internet are a life saver as an assistant in learning Lightroom Classic. I have just begun to learn about Keywords and Keyword Hierarchy and have learned how to create external to Lightroom a text file using words, tabs, [, ], {. } to create a hierarchy that I can import into Lightroom. Works great but I must be missing something. When I select a group of photos in Library Mode and go to the Keyword list, I can add "child" keyword to all the images and then through the use of "Keywords & Containing Keywords" or "Will Export" I then can see all the parent keywords and synonyms that are attached to each of the photos. Very NEAT. However in the Keyword List only the count in the actual "child" keyword entry is update with the x number of photos I had selected. For example I have selected 20 photos of my Father. The Keyword Father is under Immediate Family which is under Family which is under Known People which is under People (as example). After adding the Father keyword to my 20 selected images the Father count is increased by 20 but the People, Known People, Family, Immediate Family keywords all remain without their counts being increased even though I can see these keywords using the functions available in the Keywording tab. What am I doing wrong or what do I not understand?
And one further question ... I see if I create a Keyword while in Lightroom under the + in Keyword List that I am given the option to "Include on Export", "Export Containing Keywords" and/or "Export Synonyms". When I am importing a Keyword list via a text file, I do not see that I have this option. Now for me ... remember I am NOT a photographer ... I simply am a Picture Taker ... I would want all these options always chosen. Is this what happens by default? I guess I could find out by exporting my "Father" photos and looking at the exported images but until I started to learn to use Lightroom, I was not even aware there was such a thing as MetaData attached to images. Pretty uninformed I would say.
Thanks for considering ... this is my very first attempt to use a forum to learn more.
And one further question ... I see if I create a Keyword while in Lightroom under the + in Keyword List that I am given the option to "Include on Export", "Export Containing Keywords" and/or "Export Synonyms". When I am importing a Keyword list via a text file, I do not see that I have this option. Now for me ... remember I am NOT a photographer ... I simply am a Picture Taker ... I would want all these options always chosen. Is this what happens by default? I guess I could find out by exporting my "Father" photos and looking at the exported images but until I started to learn to use Lightroom, I was not even aware there was such a thing as MetaData attached to images. Pretty uninformed I would say.
Thanks for considering ... this is my very first attempt to use a forum to learn more.