Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wade, It also strikes me that this is something that can be done outside any image-editing program. It's meta-data so it should be relatively straightforward to write a program that would run over any image file and re-write the order of the keywords. I freely admit I don't know how Windows works and how this kind of meta-data is stored, but it almost seems like a trivial job if the tools to expose the keywords are laying at hand. The difficult part would be running over all the images to create the basic list of keywords, giving it to Tina in a form she could easily sort, and then tucking it away. After that she could elect to do EVERY image on her computer, or a folder, or a disk and it would just reorder the keywords since they're just text. Could probably do it in Python even or Perl if she didn't mind sorting the keywords in a text editor... hmmmm Adam On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Wade Heninger <heninger@adobe.com> wrote: > Funny you should talk about this. I did a bunch of stock keywording in the > last few weeks specifically to familiarize myself with what the process > was > like. > > I'm going to probably focus on the basic annotation stuff (Title, Caption, > KW, Location) soon, so this was topical. > > > > > On 4/3/08 11:08 AM, "Tina Manley" <images@comporium.net> wrote: > > > At 01:10 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote: > >> Ah, I see now, so what you'd like to do, if I'm thinking about this > >> right, is to maybe have Lightroom look through all your keywords and > >> make a list of them which you could then sort yourself so the most > >> important is at the top etc, then Lightroom would run through the > >> metadata and re-arrange the keywords so they are sorted that way? Then > >> as you add new keywords you'd be allowed somehow to put them into the > >> right place? > >> > >> Does that sound about how it should work? > >> > >> Adam > > > > More or less, yes. I'd just like to be able to order them > > myself. If I could just drag and drop or even add them one at a time > > without any automatic ordering by alphabet. Alphabetical order has > > no relevance to importance of the keywords. Maybe they could make > > automatic alphabetizing a choice instead of mandatory! > > > > Tina > > > > > > Tina Manley > > http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/ > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >