For many years I've been diligently assigning keywords to my family photos with the intention of being able to filter or search some or all of my archive and show/extract images with selected keywords. So far I've been unsuccessful as I've not found a way to find images with one keyword, but WITHOUT other keywords.
My list of keywords is very short, basically one for each member of the immediate family, one for a sub-selection of photos I call "album", and one or two others for specialty items.
The keywords are in the IPTC content as they're assigned using Lightroom, but if necessary I can also copy them to the ACDSee keyword field.
What I want to do is selectively search or filter for photos with one or more keywords, but EXCLUDE all other keywords from the result. For example, if I search for "person1", I want to see photos with these keywords:
person1
person1, album
person1, other
person1, album, other
etc.
BUT NOT:
person1, person2
person1, person2, person3
person1, person2, album
person1, person2, other
etc.
I've been able to do this with Lightroom by using text strings, such as CONTAINS WORDS "person1 !person2 !person3". The problem is that I need to re-export the results, whereas it would be enough to simply copy/paste the search results.
I've tried using IMatch and that works, but I don't want to use yet another software program and maintain yet another database.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks in advance
My list of keywords is very short, basically one for each member of the immediate family, one for a sub-selection of photos I call "album", and one or two others for specialty items.
The keywords are in the IPTC content as they're assigned using Lightroom, but if necessary I can also copy them to the ACDSee keyword field.
What I want to do is selectively search or filter for photos with one or more keywords, but EXCLUDE all other keywords from the result. For example, if I search for "person1", I want to see photos with these keywords:
person1
person1, album
person1, other
person1, album, other
etc.
BUT NOT:
person1, person2
person1, person2, person3
person1, person2, album
person1, person2, other
etc.
I've been able to do this with Lightroom by using text strings, such as CONTAINS WORDS "person1 !person2 !person3". The problem is that I need to re-export the results, whereas it would be enough to simply copy/paste the search results.
I've tried using IMatch and that works, but I don't want to use yet another software program and maintain yet another database.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks in advance
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