#Photo mechanic vs lightroom full

We can find a keyword in an awkwardly large keyword vocabulary, apply it to a batch of photos with a whole slew of taxonomical antecedents, with an extra helping of synonyms thrown in for good measure, and do all this in a matter of a few seconds. Refer back to my post on keywording considerations for more on putting location information into the keywords field instead of /in addition to putting that information where it really belongs.)

#Photo mechanic vs lightroom full

If we wanted, we could click on another keyword, like “Texas” in this case and add another path full of keywords, like “North America”, “United States”, and “Texas”, if we had a controlled vocabulary of places installed. If we so choose in our settings, we get those, too.

The keywords in green in the hierarchical display are synonyms. If we click on our “texas tortoise” keyword and apply it, we’ll get a lengthy path of keywords, starting with “animal”, on down through to the turtle in question. Just now as I write this, it occurs to me how much the dialog looks like the multi-column view of Finder, the Macintosh OS’s file manager. The Structured Keywords dialog will now display a bunch of keywords in a hierarchy much like the way a file manager would display folders and files. In Find results, Photo Mechanic offers up all the hierarchical keywords paths that include your search term. I chose the “texas tortoise” for the illustration, but one turtle is about as good as the next for our purposes here. “Tort” should return a pop-up dialog offering several choices of tortoises. Photo Mechanic 5 ships with a controlled vocabulary of animal keywords from. Press enter or click on the ‘Find’ button. This will open the Structured Keywords dialog.Īt the top of the dialog, make sure that “Exact Match” is unchecked and enter “tort” in the search bar. In Photo Mechanic, go to the Image pulldown in the main menu and choose “Structured Keywords Panel…”, or press CMD/CTL+Option/ALT+K on the keyboard. Not only does hierarchical/Structured keywording allow us to quickly apply keywords, it also allows those of us who need giant keyword vocabularies to manage big keyword lists without any major loss of sanity.

Hierarchical keywording allows us to add all the keywords along a hierarchical path by double-clicking on a single keyword, which we will find in a, yes, hierarchical organization. (See Part 1 here.) In this installment, we explore hierarchical keywording, or “Structured Keywording” as Photo Mechanic calls it. This post is Part 2 of our HOW-TO for keywording in Photo Mechanic. Photo Mechanic calls their hierarchical keywording function “Structured Keywording” It rocks The Structured Keywords panel in Photo Mechanic allows you to add hierarchical paths of keywords to batches of selected photos in a few keystrokes.