> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Walt > > I'll be sure to keep in mind the keyword stuff. But, sadly, I'm just > horrible about doing stuff like that -- it's a procrastination thing, I > guess. > > Thankfully, I don't have many older photos, so it won't be a huge deal > -- at least until I put off adding keywords to my newer images for so > long that it gets to be too much of an ordeal to mess with. ;) >
If you do the basic keywords (who, what, where, why) at the time you import the pictures you can avoid the procrastination problem. The keyword entry box is on the right hand panel of the import dialog. Keywords are more helpful and more flexible than deriving a folder structure, and it doesn't take any longer to use them. For example, if your folder structure is say \Holidays\Paris\Cafe de Rostand\Fifi\, just enter the keywords holidays, paris, Café de Rostand and fifi instead (I would make café a separate keyword). You're liberated from the tyranny of the fixed structure, and the problem of what to do with something that belongs in more than one folder, For example if Fifi also belongs in Family\Nieces\Pretend\ and in Mistresses\No longer\ you just include as keywords family, nieces, etc. You can search on any equal or proper subset of the keywords, in any order, rather than having to find your way through all the levels of a folder structure that you will lose track of. You can put keywords themselves in hierarchies if you want, although I stopped doing that a long time ago. For example, Europe > France > Paris, Europe > France > Lyon, Europe > Germany > Neuschwanstein. If you then keyword something as Neuschwanstein it will turn up in searches for Europe, without you having to put Europe as a keyword against the picture, and any search for France will include both Paris and Lyon. The problem, for me, is maintaining the hierarchies and also making sure that what you are doing is a real, genuine, hierarchy, and that's not always obvious until it's too late. A keyword can belong to more than one hierarchy, I think, so it's slightly better than a folder structure in (most) hierarchical file systems. B B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
