SEARCHING FOR YOUR IMAGES
5 Once you’ve applied keywords to your photos, you can
use those keywords to search or filter your photo library,
helping you find specific images. In the Library Grid view, you’ll
see a selection of filters at the top of the screen. Select Text,
and choose Keywords from the drop-down menu. You can also
choose to filter inclusively or exclusively.
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You can use the text search filters to find more than just
keywords. You can also search for specific words in image
metadata, for example a camera brand name or model type. If
you shoot particular types of photo with a particular camera
this can help to narrow down your search to just photos taken
with that camera.
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Another use for the metadata filter is to search for photos
that you’ve flagged or given a particular star rating.
Again, you can choose an option from the drop-down menu by
clicking on the top bar of any of the metadata filter columns.
The columns will show you the number of photos in your library
to which each filter applies.7 You looked at metadata in a previous section and you
can also use metadata to filter your searches. Since the
metadata of a digital photograph contains information on the
time the photo was taken and the type of camera used to take it,
you can quickly filter search for just photos taken with a specific
camera and lens on a particular date.
10 You can also search by file type, such as JPEG, DNG,
Photoshop PSD file, TIFF, Raw files from various camera
types, PNG graphics files or video files of any type. If, as we’ve
suggested, you always shoot in Raw mode this might not
be too helpful but if you have a lot of mixed media in your
collection it can help to locate specific types of file.8 You can customise the metadata filters to help you search
under a number of different parameters. If you regularly
shoot with a GPS-enabled camera, one very handy search
parameter is the location data. Click on the top bar of a search
filter column and select from Location, City, State/Province or
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