On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: >> I have a mix of exporting and non-exporting keywords and have not >> noticed any difference in handling in LR4, or in the export options >> for new keywords. Can you be more specific about what has >> changed? > > When one keyword in a hierarchy is excluded from export, it also > excludes the entire branch of the hierarchy. This is unfortunate, > because the root levels are usually the least interesting. Say you > have a hierarchy called "geography" for example. Nice placeholder, but > hardly interesting as keyword outside of LR. In version 3 you could > exclude exactly the terms you wanted, now you have to make the > decision for all contained keywords at once. > > It's fairly well described in this thread: > http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/keyword_options_no_longer_available_in_lr4
OK, thanks. It looks like this only hits you if you "skip generations" in the tree--I don't think that's affected me, because I generally have a couple of levels of non-exporting keywords at the top, then one or more levels of exporting keywords underneath, but I don't think I ever try to suppress export of one level that's between exporting levels. (It would hit me for people: People > [HUNT] > Matthew Hunt, except that I don't export people's names for privacy reasons anyway.) Looking at the bird example, I guess it also hits you if you want to have a non-exporting keyword with exporting synonyms. It's never occurred to me to do that. I guess I don't understand why someone would want "Grouses" to be in the tree, but non-exporting, but have the exporting synonym "Grouse". I'd either export both, or just have "Grouse" be the main keyword, and not have "Grouses" in the tree at all. I wish LR would make it easier to see the various keyword properties (exporting, has synonyms, etc.) while looking at the whole tree. Use color-coding or asterisks or something. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
