One of the things about Aperture is the tagging is flexible. One of the things I like about their method is you can hot-key a set of up to 8 keywords and assign them with an option-3 or similar keypress. But this means you probably want to limit the number of things you’re assigning keywords for on that pass to less than 8 words. So where in yesterday’s post I decided to go with multiple passes, today I spent about 10 minutes working out how many passes I’d need. I ended up with something like 7-10 keywording passes, and I’m going to try this order:
- Wide categories. Family, friends, trips, home, work, events, car, edit.
- Immediate family. (I’ve already done this pass, but oh well.)
- Extended family. This will probably end up as two to three passes on its own, but the number of pictures will get smaller each time.
- Trips/daytrips/locations. Beach, San Francisco, Monterey, New York, Houston, etc.
- Events. Birthday, Graduation, Camp, San Jose Auto Show, Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, etc.
- Work/Home locations. Specific jobs, which house.
So far I like it. It lets me select great swaths of photos and lump them into categories I will sort through at a later time, ending up with smaller and smaller piles. Another thing I plan on doing is removing the outer category (Family) once I tag the specific names, so I can then do the Family query again to find just the pictures without names yet.
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1 njpomeroy // Oct 3, 2007 at 8:27 am
I once read an interesting blog post on tagging best practices. I’ll see if I can google it up.
A few practices I remember are things like:
- use all one case (UPPER or lower)
- always use singular words (“bunny” even if there are a few bunnies)
- if you think of a few synonyms at the time of tagging, use them (“funny” as well as “humor” or “humorous”)
I thought it was an interesting list. I wish I had it bookmarked.
-N
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