On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
I do understand the features in question. Just don't like working with them, they get in my way rather than improving efficiency. Keywords can be a powerful tool, but they aren't a panacea.
I don't know where you get the idea that keywords are some kind of panacea or are essential to LR operation. They're neither.
Keywords introduce descriptive information about the image which allow one to find similar images without respect to when they were made or worked on. With hundreds of thousands of images in an image file repository, no system of file and folder naming will aid memory in finding a particular image as much as descriptive information about the images that can be searched on readily at will.
Adding keywords to images takes a little additional time to do in the initial image processing workflow. Since (with LR) you can template and apply them in an automated fashion, along with other essential IPTC data, and do basic file organization by copying or moving files right off the camera storage card to the right location, the incremental time costs are very small.
Keywords save massive amounts of time later when putting together groups of images for sale, exhibits, when locating a particular photo that some editor saw your web rez page on, when the family would like all the pictures of mom you might have after she's passed away, etc etc etc. That's about 80% of my image management workflow need and proves a huge time saving.
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