![]() When the script completes, the images with the expanded keywords are automatically selected ready for the next step in your workflow. Yet it's automated, quick, and meshes well with further workflow steps. This does add a step in my workflow, however only for images that I post to photography sites. The latter two customizations make it easier to locate the images modified by the script. Once I've exported and shared to online portfolios, those versions are deleted. The versions with the expanded keywords are transitory. I personally keep version creation turned on. Set a color label to the image with expanded keywords (default, no change to the color label).Flag the image(s) with expanded keywords (default, no flag).Specify a keyword blacklist for keywords you do not want applied (in my example, “Place” isn't a very meaningful keyword to apply, so that a candidate for the blacklist).Turn on/off the creation of a new version for expanding keywords (default is on).After running the script against my bridge photo above I have a wider set of keywords now.Ī handle AppleScript will expand Aperture’s hierarchical keywords for you Select one or more photos to expand, run the script, and you're set. The script walks through the keywords assigned to an image and “flattens” them to include the parents as explicitly assigned keywords. Ok, so I don't have a future in marketing. It's called… wait for it… Expand Hierarchical Keywords. So, I wrote an AppleScript to expand the keywords when I need it. The keyword step of my workflow is very streamlined. I didn't want to give up on using hierarchical keywords. ![]() For one or two images, that may be acceptable, but it doesn't scale to larger projects. Lifting and stamping the keywords is an option, although you still spend the up front time applying loads of keywords to the initial image. So what to do? Manually assigning all keywords in the hierarchy is more time consuming. In my example, anyone searching for “Texas” photos will not find my shot. The additional keywords increase the visibility of your photos and improve the changes of someone finding your photos. This is a problem for images shared on photography sites such as 500px or Flickr. Only explicitly added keywords are included in exported images In the example below, the keywords are limited to “Austin”, “Bridges”, “Landscape”, “Outdoor”, “River”, and “Rocks”. Put another way, only the tags in the Keywords metadata field will be in your exported image. When a version or original is exported, only the explicitly assigned to the photo are included in the exported image. The important words in that last sentence are Aperture understands. Fewer keywords to assign, a faster workflow. However… The export caveatĪperture fully understands hierarchical keywords. Examples include Occupations, Nature, Architectural Features, Human Emotions, and Immediate Family. I also have hierarchies for all sorts of subjects and descriptions. Location hierarchies are intuitive for most people. Aperture understands the keyword hierarchy and shows me the photos I expect to see. Now, when I search for photos with the keyword “Texas”, the results include all photos from “Austin”. The rest of keywords in the hierarchy - “Texas”, “United States”, “North America”, and “Place” - were implicitly applied by Aperture. When assigning keywords, I explicitly assigned only the “Austin” keyword. An example of a hierarchical keyword structure
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