POWERFUL Searching in LIGHTROOM

hi everyone anthony morganti here did you know that lightroom classic has a robust set of search tools in this video i'm going to demonstrate how to use them [Music] [Music] if you find the need to search for an image in your lightroom library what you need to do is first go to the library module all searches are done there now you could search any individual folder for an image or any individual collection for an image or if you find the need to search through your entire lightroom catalog of images what you need to do is go to the root folder so go up here to the folders tab and click on the folder that is the root folder this is the folder that contains all your other folders here mine is called lightroom raw files yours probably is called something else doesn't matter what it's called just click on it and you can see that i'll be searching then through all seventy four thousand seven hundred and thirteen images for let's say a specific image now to get to those search tools you'll need to be in grid view so hit the g key on your keyboard and you can see now my images are in a grid now along the top is the library filter bar if you don't see this hit the backslash key on your keyboard that will turn that filter bar off and on and you can see that we could search through three different ways you could search for text somewhere in metadata an attribute and metadata itself let's go to text first so here we'll be able to search through any searchable text field in the metadata for a specific word or words or the beginning of a word end of a word stuff like that now you could see any searchable field well what are those searchable fields you might be wondering well click on that drop down and you can see file name copy name title caption keywords and so on now if i know for a fact that the image i'm searching for has a caption that says something specific i could just click on caption and search through all the captions in my lightroom catalog for whatever i type in the search field or if i'm not sure where this keyword or the specific word is that i'm searching just go to the top any searchable field it works very quickly so it won't really slow you down now are you searching for contains contains all so if i write more than one word in the search field it has to contain all of them it has to contain words it doesn't contain those words it starts with friends with let's go to contains hall and let's go here and let's search now any searchable field in the metadata for the word thinking or think right so we go there and you can see these are images in my entire lightroom catalog that somewhere in the metadata in a searchable field has the word think you can see there's a sign like thinking which way to go these people are thinking this lady i guess is thinking this guy's thinking that's a stock image so the photographer that took this image probably has a keyword think in there so you could see that these people look like they're thinking so that narrowed it down quite a bit so you could see how you could search any searchable field for a word or words or the beginning of a word end of a word and you'll be able to find what you need with that text search let's go to the next one over attribute let's go there attributes are well did you give it us a flag a reject flag or a pick flag did you give it a star rating do you see how i have some defaulted already i must have used this before let's undo those now we have all our images here right so do you want to search for just images that were picked images that don't have any flag at all or images that have a reject flag let's do reject flag let's see oh i have three images in my entire lightroom library that i have a reject flag if i want to undo that just click on that reject flag again now you could stack these so let's say i want images that have a pick flag or the white flag images that are edited this would be unedited let's go with edited let's have a greater than or equal to three stars so there are images now that have a white flag that have some edits done to them and they're greater than or equal to three stars you can see this has five stars well what if i wanted images that were just equal to three stars click right here and go down to rating is equal to three stars there you go three star images right there well color labels what about yellow do i have any hello nope no yellow all right let's see if we have a color label no so you can see how there's i don't have any images that have a pick flag that are edited that have are equal to three stars and have a yellow label how about greater than or equal to three stars yeah i have two images there so you could see how you could kind of stack all of this on top of one another to get what you're looking for also on the far right do you want actual photos virtual copies or videos so if i had a video let's say i had one video in my catalog i want to find it real quick i click right there i don't have any but you could see how you could just just virtual copies and again you could stack all these on one another to find an image by its attribute or attributes so kind of cool very easy to do that let's go to the next one over metadata you can see that i have four boxes going across the top you may or may not have these four boxes and your four boxes might have different info in them this uh really is all customizable and i'm going to show you how to do it now by default or by at least on my lightroom library on the far left i have camera so look at all these different cameras uh canon cameras um there's some fuji cameras there's some sony cameras so uh sony a7r4 there's uh 2770 images there there's iphones there's a bunch of nikon cameras there's some fuji cameras so if i wanted to see all the images i took my fujifilm xt3 click right there and there's my late great dog archie is in doggy heaven but there you can see that i have three 3116 images taken with the fujifilm xt3 um once that's clicked you can see over here lenses i have some that were taken with a 16 to 55 millimeter of a 2.8 somewhere take with taken with a 56 millimeter fl 1.2 and so on so i have all these different images that were taken with the fujifilm xt3 with these specific lenses um so you can see how that comes in really handy over here focal length um now i'm on all my cameras all my lenses and there's different focal lengths here so do i want to see images just taken at like 35 millimeter it even narrows it down to the tenth of the millimeter so you could see pretty cool right there how about flash date did i use flash not use a flash and so on so all that is there as well now i mentioned that this is kind of the way it's set up currently for me just the last way i happen to do searches you could change this to really any metadata you want to search for to do that let's say you don't need to look at focal length you want to look for something else click right here and you can see shutter speed so you can search through shutter speeds uh aperture iso speed this is what i most often have on here is because i do videos on topaz labs to noise ai and on one software software's no noise ai and i want to find images that have really high noise so i'll quickly just go here and let's say do 25600 and there's our cat rocky some concert video so our concert vid um images i should say so there's 182 images there so and again i could stack it all if i want to see just ones that were shot with specific lens specific camera i could do all that and stack all this on top of one another so it's pretty powerful now as far as these individual um boxes i happen to have four maybe you don't need to search through four different metadata searches you could click right here this little drop down and remove this column so i just got rid of that column right there um iso speed flash state let's say i don't need that one either oops click on the far right remove that column so i'm just searching through three if i wanted to add another column click there add a column and then i could give this um you know whatever let's say date so these are all the different dates i took images you can see 2017 was a very prolific year um i could add another column as you saw before i had four columns going across the top typically what i do is i like oops i like date i like there we go i like date on this first one i like camera on this one i like lens on this one there and this one i like iso because i'm often searching for iso and this one i just don't have at all so i remove this one accidentally put that so those that's typically the way i have it set up with those four so you can see now you can search through a searchable text field or a searchable field for a text string you could search through your attributes those are flag statuses color labels stuff like that you can search for other metadata like the camera you used also you shot at the focal length and so on you also could stack these for example um let's just open up text all right so we're going to search for a text field and i'm going to search for again thinking or think all right now what about attribute click on that you see how that adds that so i could just do images i don't have any that are flagged here let's do this real quick let's uh flag that one flag that one flag that one like that one and flag that one okay so now i can search for images that just have the text string think somewhere in there that have a white flag and let's go to metadata and i want just the images shot with an 85 millimeter 1.8 lines there you go so you could see you could stack each of those fields with each other as well so you could uh really you know use all these different attributes to try to find whatever it is you're searching for and when you're done just click on none over here and then you'll turn off your your uh your searches and one little thing is this little padlock over here on the far right um these padlocks if it's locked and you did a search when you go and then you have like down in the film strip you have images that you know contain all those search elements if you go over to the develop module map module book module that's going to stay there if you undo the lock then when you go to other modules that search field although it will stay in your library module like when you open up the search bar and you want to do search it'll save it it will not carry over into the other modules so let me try to explain let's go to the text field and let's again search for think okay now these are images down here that just have think now if i go to a different folder right see how that closed and let give it a second now kind of reset that's because it it that padlock is unlocked so if i go back and i go to think these are images just contain think and i close or i lock that padlock now i go to a different folder you can see it's not it's keeping this open and it's searching for in that folder images that have think somewhere in searchable metadata so that is what that padlock does there and also this little drop down here there's just like presets where you could search for camera info so if you have a specific search you always do like you search a text field with a specific word an attribute with a specific like flag status or something and specific metadata that you do all the time you could create a filter preset so you could go over here and you could save current setting as a new preset then you don't have to go through each of these individual headings and type that in every single time you could just go over here and hit your filter preset to find what you need i don't have any filter presets these are the ones that are defaulted with lightroom i don't search for the same thing all the time but if you do you'll be able to do that with a filter preset so that's probably pretty much everything i know about searching using the library filter in lightroom classic if you have anything to add feel free to add it in the comments below and i hope this helps you find images in your lightroom catalog thank you everyone watches my videos i really do appreciate it i'll talk to you guys soon [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Anthony Morganti

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Length: 14min 49sec (889 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 30 2021