Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's take a look at using Keywords in the new Photos app.
So if you are into organizing your photos then you want to learn how to use keywords
in the new Photos app because it is a great way to organize them in all sorts of different
ways and to find individual photos as well as put together groups of photos very quickly.
So let's start by assigning some keywords to some photos.
Let's select a photo, let's dig down here, and I'll select a photo like this one.
Then I can go to Window and Info.
Bring up the info window about this photo.
Here you can see there is a field for Adding a Keyword and I can add any keyword I want.
So there is some flowers in this picture and let me create a keyword for flowers.
There.
I'll type it in and you can see now there is a little tag that appears because under
View, Metadata I have Keyword selected and that will then show me this tag here.
I can actually click on it and see what keywords are there.
Now I can assign multiple keywords.
So this was taken in Hawaii.
I'll add Hawaii in there and I've got both of these now assigned to this photo.
Now another way to work with keywords besides using the Info window here, and you can see
I can actually select and delete these if I wanted to and easily add new ones, but I'll
get rid of that and I can bring up the Keyword Manager.
The Keyword Manager shows me all the keywords I have assigned to any photo here.
I can select, you can see it says flowers and Hawaii are set for this but I can say
set it for vacation as well and you can see it added vacation to it.
I can remove it and you can see it got rid of it there.
So it is a very easy was to do it.
You can also add some of these keywords to a Quick Group.
So for instance I can drag vacation here and you can see it adds to this Quick Group and
assigns this little keyboard shortcut.
So as long as this Keyword panel is open, and this is a floating panel that will always
float above what you are doing, I can use this V here and assign.
So vacation and remove it.
So you can actually use this for some common keywords you assign.
So vacation can be one of them and then quickly with just one key stroke add that as long
as you have this open.
I can also hit Edit Keywords here and see a list of all these different keywords.
I can select one.
I can rename it.
So, for instance, if I have assigned Denver to several photos I can rename it here and
that new keyword will be assigned to all the ones that Denver was assigned to before.
I can add a shortcut to it right here.
I can add new keywords or remove keywords.
Do anything I want there in Edit Keyword.
So you see there is a lot of functionality to make it easy for you to quickly and easily
add and remove keywords to different photos.
So once you have assigned keywords you can use them for lots of different things.
Like you can just do a quick search for those keywords.
Let me search for flowers and you can see it found that word flowers as one keyword
there.
I hit return and I can quickly see all the photos that I have labeled with it.
So without having to create an album at all I can actually search for these!
So say if I assigned keywords like Hawaii and vacation and flowers.
Say I had flowers assigned anytime I took a photo of flowers, no matter what year it
was, no matter if I was on vacation or at home or what I was doing.
I can quickly see all those flowers by doing a search for it.
See them all here and then do various things with those photos and I never have to create
an album.
I know I can always quickly and easily find all my photos with flowers in them by just
searching.
Now if I wanted to permanently have something over here where I can quickly see all my flowers
photos I could create a new Smart Album and I could call it what I want.
So flowers and I can assign it the condition that the keyword is and it shows me all the
keywords I have selected and put flowers there.
It tells me right now there is one item matched.
Now it is here in a Smart Album.
So instead of just having to search for it I can quickly and easily just jump to it there.
This being a Smart Album will automatically update as I add new photos that have flowers
in them then I will see them appear.
So, for instance, let's go and find another photo that I can add to that collection.
There is one right there.
I'll use Command I to jump here.
I will add flowers.
It auto completes because it is an existing keyword.
Now if I jump to the flowers Smart Album both of them are now there because the Smart Album
is going to automatically update.
Likewise if I were to do a search for flowers now I'll get the same result.
So you can see it actually shows me there is an album now called that but in addition
I'm going to just look at the keywords here and I can see them both.
Now it is easy to assign keywords en mass.
So, for instance, I can jump here and say I want to put all of these photos under Hawaii.
I can select them all, bring up the Keyword Manager, and then just select Hawaii for all
of them.
You can see it assigned Hawaii to all of them, or remove them.
So it is very easy to convert albums you may have been using to keywords instead and clean
up the left sidebar here.