I chose the “texas tortoise” for the illustration, but one turtle is about as good as the next for our purposes here. “Tort” should return a pop-up dialog offering several choices of tortoises. Photo Mechanic 5 ships with a controlled vocabulary of animal keywords from. Press enter or click on the ‘Find’ button. This will open the Structured Keywords dialog.Īt the top of the dialog, make sure that “Exact Match” is unchecked and enter “tort” in the search bar. In Photo Mechanic, go to the Image pulldown in the main menu and choose “Structured Keywords Panel…”, or press CMD/CTL+Option/ALT+K on the keyboard. Not only does hierarchical/Structured keywording allow us to quickly apply keywords, it also allows those of us who need giant keyword vocabularies to manage big keyword lists without any major loss of sanity. Hierarchical keywording allows us to add all the keywords along a hierarchical path by double-clicking on a single keyword, which we will find in a, yes, hierarchical organization. (See Part 1 here.) In this installment, we explore hierarchical keywording, or “Structured Keywording” as Photo Mechanic calls it. This post is Part 2 of our HOW-TO for keywording in Photo Mechanic. Photo Mechanic calls their hierarchical keywording function “Structured Keywording” It rocks The Structured Keywords panel in Photo Mechanic allows you to add hierarchical paths of keywords to batches of selected photos in a few keystrokes.

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