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After using Lightroom for a couple of years I'm about to start keying wording all my images. After reading lots of threads on here I'm happy with my planned keyword hierarchy but wanted to check if how I'm planning to keyword people is right. I'm planning to use Face Recognition only.
Planned hierarchy:
People (top level)
>Family
>Friends
>Other
>Relatives
>>and within Relatives to have a sub level of Family Surnames
I've marked People as the keyword to "Put New Person Keywords inside this Keyword". After I have named Faces I plan to then drag the keyword Name from People into the correct hierarchy e.g. Family, Friends or if they are a Relative into the Family Surname. I was worried that if I moved the keyword name that Face Recognition would lose track of it but from testing it appears it doesn't and works well including offering suggestions when people I have already named and moved appear in new images imported.
Reading various forum discussions about whether underscores should be used between first and surname considering subsequent searching problems but how when exporting images it's best not to have underscores I came across a suggestion of using Synonyms which sounded a good idea (thank you who ever posted that). So I'm planning to use format of John Smith and then add the synonym of JohnSmith.
Does the above sound a good plan, any problems I might find ?
Also if I use the above is there anything I'm missing out on not using "normal" keywords ?
Many thanks, Duncan
Planned hierarchy:
People (top level)
>Family
>Friends
>Other
>Relatives
>>and within Relatives to have a sub level of Family Surnames
I've marked People as the keyword to "Put New Person Keywords inside this Keyword". After I have named Faces I plan to then drag the keyword Name from People into the correct hierarchy e.g. Family, Friends or if they are a Relative into the Family Surname. I was worried that if I moved the keyword name that Face Recognition would lose track of it but from testing it appears it doesn't and works well including offering suggestions when people I have already named and moved appear in new images imported.
Reading various forum discussions about whether underscores should be used between first and surname considering subsequent searching problems but how when exporting images it's best not to have underscores I came across a suggestion of using Synonyms which sounded a good idea (thank you who ever posted that). So I'm planning to use format of John Smith and then add the synonym of JohnSmith.
Does the above sound a good plan, any problems I might find ?
Also if I use the above is there anything I'm missing out on not using "normal" keywords ?
Many thanks, Duncan
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