Keywords and Metadata

metadata

metadata is a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. For digital images this includes the information relating to how the photo was captures, when it was captured, and can include lots of useful stuff like the location, the photographer and the camera and lens combination use.

Keywords

Keywords can be added to an image as additional metadata to aid our ability to search and sort our collections.

Lightroom has a few built in keyword sets that can be used, and the ability to create your own sets.

Keywords appear in the Keywording panel in Library mode. Each image can have multiple keywords, in a comma separated list.

we can use the Text or Metadata Library Filters to search for or filter our collections for keywords.