I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful.Managing Photos is not the only role that Adobe Bridge plays. That way, next time you want to add keywords to your images, you can open that KEYWORDS tab and just click away! It saved me so much time! I wish I had known about it sooner! Now, take the time to gather a list of your frequent keywords and add them to your program. Then, choose Starts With from the drop-down menu. If you are searching for keywords that begin with specific characters, click on the magnifying glass located in the search box. Clicking the arrows to the right of the search box will toggle the previous or next highlighted keyword. Keywords highlighted in green indicate the first time the keyword appears in your list. All keywords that contain the characters you typed will be highlighted. You can quickly search for a specific keyword in your list by typing it in the search box at the bottom. The final feature I would like to note is the search feature. Just click and drag the keyword to its new location. Moving a keyword to another category is easy. The original keyword remains the same in any images to which the keyword has already been added. If you rename a keyword, it changes only with the selected images. You can easily rename a keyword by right-clicking on the word and choosing Rename from the drop-down. Note: if a hyphen appears in the box, that means it is only added to some of your selected images. To remove a keyword, simply uncheck the box. As you check keywords, you can see them added above to the area under the tabs. With your image(s) selected, check the boxes next to the keywords you would like to add. Any keywords in brackets cannot be added to images.Īdding and removing keywords from your imageĮxpand or collapse your keyword categories by clicking on the arrows in front of your keywords. ♦ If you would like a parent keyword to be used only for organizational purposes, place that keyword in brackets, such as. Note: instead of right-clicking on the keywords, you can use the buttons along the bottom right, as well. If you need to delete a keyword, just right-click on the keyword and choose Delete. I would type the word Blue and hit enter. Blue would be a sub keyword of Color, so to add that I would simply right-click on the word Color and choose New Sub Keyword. Say I wanted to add the word Blue to my list. Type the word Color and hit Enter (or Return if using Mac OS). To add a keyword, such as adding the word Color as in the image below, right-click on one of the words and choose New Keyword from the drop-down menu. Taking the time to do this will allow you to use the same keywords on other images without having to add them all over again. You can organize your keywords by parent and child categories, or keywords and sub keywords. They will also be arranged alphabetically! As you add keywords to the image, they will appear here so you can easily see what you have added. If you have no keywords yet, this area will be blank. You can see that the area directly under the KEYWORDS tab will show any keywords you already have associated with the image you have open. That will take you to the Keywords panel which will look something like the image below, but likely with far less keywords in it. Then, go ahead and click on that KEYWORDS tab as shown in the image above. So, begin by selecting an image to which you would like to add keywords. Open Adobe Bridge, and follow along as I guide you through the process. Then, HEY! I found this amazing little tab called KEYWORDS, and the process has become a whole lot simpler! Why have I not seen this little bugger before? I knew I needed to share this information with those of you who have been adding keywords the same way I have been all this time. For years, I have been adding keywords to all of my images the hard way…typing every keyword one by one…on every single image. In fact, they are extremely important in allowing search engines to find your content. Keywords are an important aspect when listing your images on the web.
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