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« on: November 30, 2007, 10:10:55 am »

i just reinstalled CS3 and LR on a new computer. in LR everything works fine, but in CS# for some reason the keywords i put in LR dont show up. is there any way to embed the keywords in LR into the file so it shows up in CS3?
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2007, 01:01:53 pm »

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i just reinstalled CS3 and LR on a new computer. in LR everything works fine, but in CS# for some reason the keywords i put in LR dont show up. is there any way to embed the keywords in LR into the file so it shows up in CS3?
TIA
amnon
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I doubt if I can be much help but do think you will get better help if you state computer type, Mac or PC, operating system type and version and even the version of CS3 and LR. Too much information is better than not enough.

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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2007, 01:40:59 pm »

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr_13/lr-13-review.htm

See the update on writing to xmp files.  The LR default doesn't write any changes to xmp - in v 1.2 you could enable this, but there was a significant performance hit.  They fine tuned this so you can keep you metadata up to date without a (or much of a) performance hit.
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2007, 02:10:51 pm »

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i just reinstalled CS3 and LR on a new computer. in LR everything works fine, but in CS# for some reason the keywords i put in LR dont show up. is there any way to embed the keywords in LR into the file so it shows up in CS3?
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LR has nothing to do with the CS suite integration wise. It was noticably absent from the collection.
However, you can export your keywords from LR by going to Metadata/Export and it will save a textfile named 'Lightroom Keywords'  to wherever you want, which you then  simply import into another LR catalogue or into Bridge to get back up to speed, keyword wise. Is that what you mean by keywords in CS3?
I should also mention, that this is OS agnostic, like the LR catalogue.


BTW - You cannot export keywords using the big export button, which is one's  first thought!
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2007, 02:18:22 pm »

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http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr_13/lr-13-review.htm

See the update on writing to xmp files.  The LR default doesn't write any changes to xmp - in v 1.2 you could enable this, but there was a significant performance hit.  They fine tuned this so you can keep you metadata up to date without a (or much of a) performance hit.
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This is not quite so relevent as that is more useful for image tweaking information/labelling syncing, rather than for adding keywords to Bridge.
See above post for the simple way of doing this.
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2007, 03:50:48 pm »

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I doubt if I can be much help but do think you will get better help if you state computer type, Mac or PC, operating system type and version and even the version of CS3 and LR. Too much information is better than not enough.

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its a pc, xp pro, both cs3 and lightroom with latest updates.

if i understand the responses correctly, there is no way of embedding the keywords already present in lightroom in my xmp files, so that if i open a file in cs3 it has the same keywords i have in lightroom?
jjj, i am not trying to add keywords to bridge necessarily, i want to see the keywords i gave to a file in lightroom appear in cs3.
amnon
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2007, 07:22:03 pm »

Under file->catalog settings->metadata select "automatically write changes into xmp".

Or select your files, right click them, go to meta data, save metadata to files.
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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2007, 08:21:59 pm »

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What do you mean by that? CS3 isn't a product it's a large group of products [15 or so programmes]. Which programme do you want to be able to see your keywords in? And in what context?

As mentioned above, if you want to see any metadata, like keywords added to files in LR, in any other programmes, then you either need to save each file individually or by selecting a group pf pics and saving [Cntrl/Cmmd+S]. Or much, much easier - enable 'autowrite changes into XMP', which is done  from within catalogue preferences. Once that's done, your keywords should be apparent in any ITPC aware programme.
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2007, 09:32:11 pm »

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Under file->catalog settings->metadata select "automatically write changes into xmp".

Or select your files, right click them, go to meta data, save metadata to files.
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thanks guys, this did the trick dark penguin. automatically save to xmp didnt do anything, for some reason.
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