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Using metadata to sort and find images in a catalogue- As digital photographers, we're all accustomedto our images coming into our computers with metadata. That's the date and time,exposure information and all sorts of other stuffthat you're camera automatically recordsinto an image. Now, you may have sitting deepin the back of a closet somewhere,a box full of a bunch of old photos,analog photos, which you may never have thought ofis the value of adding metadata to those images.
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Sitting here with my friend Jim Hydewho has thought about that. Jim, you thought about thatto a fairly obsessive compulsive degree here.- Thank you, I think so.- And the result is actually really interesting. What have you got here?- Well, I've been working on this personal projectthat involves scanning literally thousands of itemsfrom my family archives. My dad was into radio and musical theaterin the 2. I have all of these photosfrom his professional career.
And, he was also an avid amateur photographer,so I have all his family photos. And I've been gradually scanning them,and bringing them into Lightroomand adding keywords that make the photos work harder,as in allowing me to find them,examine the library from different angles,and even just kind of establish narrativesbased on what is turning up.- So the process you're engaging hereis the same one that you would dowith a digital photo. Your work flow is rather than,putting in a card and reading images,you're scanning images,and when you're getting them in here,you're starting to have metadata.- Right.- We're all used to that idea. What are you getting herethat people may not have thought of?- Well, what I wanted to do,the first thing you kind of have to do is,develop a taxonomy,a filing system for how you might wantto categorize the photosbased on how you might want to look at them. So, I've created keywordsthat allow me to explore by decades,2. My mom, my dad, various family members,by whether or not they were, they dealt with my dad's careeror whether they were personal items.
I have a keyword called "not a photo"that lets me home in ontheatrical play bills or newspaper clippingsthat his name might've been mentioned in. So, that's kind of step one,how might I want to look at these laterand how might I want to categorize them. From there, it's just the matter of. I scan them dozen or so at a time. When I've got some spare time. I bring them into Lightroomand Lightroom makes it very easy to keyword them.
What that gives you is,at a very superficial level,the ability to search for the photosusing the Light Refine command,Command Control F.I can say, you know, radio,and here are all the photos that in one wayor another deal with my dad's career in radio. Microsoft Outlook Web Access Appearance Dermatology .
Where things get even more interesting thoughis when you create smart collections in Lightroom. And, a smart collection is basically an albumwith Search attached to it.
And I've created a bunch of different smart collectionsfor 2. This is all the all family photos from the 1.
I've created some that let me look at geography,you know, I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,here's 1. Pittsburgh. And, if you go into these,they're really very simple,it's just a set of criteriathat you're asking Lightroom to matchand I've got keyword contains 4. Pittsburgh. If I wanted to make this more granularand just find photos of my dad,from Pittsburgh in the 1. I would say keywords contains dadand bam, Lightroom narrows it down that quickly.- How many images are we talking aboutso far total that you've got in here?- I've scanned upwards of 2.
It just sifted those very quicklyto that set of three keywords.- And that's where metadatareally starts paying off,because to just scroll through theseis like looking through the original bankers boxis that they're all stored inand once they're categorized in this way,then it allows me to lookat exactly the kind of photothat I'm looking for at the time.- Now working with keywords in Lightroomis actually pretty simple. You've got what appears to bea fairly complex detailed taxonomy,but you don't actually have to haveall that in your head because Lightroomauto completes keywords, as you're- -- Right.- Typing and make it very easy to ensure consistencyof your keywords as you go.- Yeah, yeah. If I start typing PI it auto completes it to Pittsburgh- -- [Host] Okay.- [Jim] For example.- Now one of the things you can do with Lightroomonce you've got an album made is, share it.
And that buys you some additional functionality.- Yeah, with Lightroom,you can share through the creative cloud. You can share collections that you've createdor smart collections and I've done that,and that gives you a couple of benefits. For one thing, it lets you look at the photoson other devices. I can look at these photos while I'm on my phonewhile I'm waiting for a planeif I want to.- [Host] Right.- I can look at them on the Apple TV in my living room'cause there's a Lightroom app for the Apple TV. But I can also share them with family membersand you can enable the photos for downloading or not. So if a family member wants to downloadand have a print made, they can do that. And there's also a Comments box,when you share them through the web interface.
And I've done that to enable family membersto kind of help me out in categorizing them'cause there are people in herethat I don't always recognize.- [Host] Right.- And I have a key word called Unknownand so I can, I can publish an albumof those unknown photos. And I can kind of crowd source the, the taggingto my family who can say,"Oh, that's Uncle Frank in that one."And I can go back and add that.- That's great. This is, I suddenly am thinkingthis is about much more than,this something you dowith much more than just a box of family photos.- Oh yeah. This is a personal project but there are businessesand organizations of all kinds that have banker's boxesfilled with analog things that aren't getting any youngerand that are trapped in the analog domain.
They can't be shared online. They can't be put on a website.
They can't be used in a video or a photo book.- Jim, this is very cool. Tomtom One 3Rd Edition Update Navcore Tomtom . I don't, I don't know if you can really see it here.When Jim sat me down and first started showing me this,I was really struck by the addition of metadatatakes this random agglomerationof photos you have spread aroundand simply just looking through these smart albums,just by key wording them and letting them siftand filter into place,you kind of immediately get a narrative then.- Yeah.- That normally you'd have to work really hardto piece together.- If I wanted to put together a slideshowof all my dad's theatrical reviews,I could do a search for the keyword called Clipping.And bam, there they all are.- Yeah, they all are.Yeah. So it's really becomes,your metadata is giving you this kind of meta documentout of all these photos.It's a, a sortable, siftable way to,it's a living, breathing kind of entity here.Yeah, it was very inspiring to see.
If you've got a bunch of old photos laying aroundthat you've been meaning to scansimply for the sake of preservation. Think about what's going on here. The possibilities with metadata,'cause that may just give you the motivationthat you need to get going,because it does turn a box of old photosinto something far more interesting.- Big time.- Thanks a lot Jim, this is really cool.- My pleasure.