Re: Create Bridge metadat filter in CS3?

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May 30, 2008
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However it does not do what I want to do and I realize I should have been more specific: I need to, for example, see all the Descriptions used,
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I’ll bet we can do it with what is already in Bridge’s Find (and view-sort, etc).

You can, for example, search through all metadata (as one long data string) for occurences of a word. It would be picked up whether in Description, Keywords, or any other place. Then you can sort and select from those found. The metadata shows with the thumbnail pictures. You can refine it further with a selection upon that, and finally you can sort-out things you do not want. If you like the result, you can save the selection as a collection to use in another query.

In any event, show us what you want and I’ll bet it can be done with what Bridge already has.

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JB
just bob
Jun 2, 2008
Hello John,

Thanks for the suggestions. Collections is something I need to try, too

The Find command is great for things I know exists, but that is not always the case.

I do event work with many participants and captioning (populating the Description field) can take hours if not a whole day. What is nice with the Filter Panel and Keywords is if one or more of the images has an incorrect keyword (i.e. typo) it appears as it’s own entry on the Filter Panel – it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb.

So I’ve resorted to duplicating (copy/paste) my Description text into the keyword field as I am working and it works OK as it allows me to pseudo filter by description. Except the keyword field is not the description field so I cannot see discrepancies. And the keyword field does not handle punctuation well, for example a comma is automatically replaced with a semi colon and the data is parsed into multiple keywords.

Thanks again for the interesting suggestions and I am going to play with collections which could solve my issue of not having enough colored labels!

-Bob
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john
Jun 3, 2008
"just bob" wrote in message
Hello John,

Thanks for the suggestions. Collections is something I need to try, too
The Find command is great for things I know exists, but that is not always the case.

I do event work with many participants and captioning (populating the Description field) can take hours if not a whole day. What is nice with the Filter Panel and Keywords is if one or more of the images has an incorrect keyword (i.e. typo) it appears as it’s own entry on the Filter Panel – it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb.

So I’ve resorted to duplicating (copy/paste) my Description text into the keyword field as I am working and it works OK as it allows me to pseudo filter by description. Except the keyword field is not the description field so I cannot see discrepancies. And the keyword field does not handle punctuation well, for example a comma is automatically replaced with a semi colon and the data is parsed into multiple keywords.
Thanks again for the interesting suggestions and I am going to play with collections which could solve my issue of not having enough colored labels!

A description of a typical task would be helpful, for example what you do to the photos, specifically what you must enter in the data, and so-forth.

I suppose you know this, but if you have a whole folder of the same event that requires the same Description, you can fill the Description in all those images at once in the blink of an eye.

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