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In this video, we're gonna talk about exporting and importing keywords.

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So you may be wondering, why back up or export your keywords? First, I should tell

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you that keywords are part of the metadata of your files. And so you shouldn't have to worry about

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those keywords going missing. But just like any application, things

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here in Bridge can go wonky or become corrupt. So just as an extra measure

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of security, if you do a lot with keywords, I would recommend that you keep a backup.

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You may need to use the backup to fix corruption or just to replace organization

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that was accidentally deleted. To save the current keywords in the keywords panel, click

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on the panel menu and choose export. In the dialog

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box, you'll want to give your keywords a very unique name. So I could

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type in here, jens-keywords, and then type in

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a date. Let's say it is January 15th, and

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I'll just scooch over here and put in 2024. So I have

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this very unique name that tells me exactly when this particular backup was

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created. I'll need to choose where to save it. I'm just going to go ahead and save it to my Jen White

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folder. The format of your exported keywords is always in the

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form of a text file. Here on a Mac, it's going to be a.txt.

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And then I'll click Save. And you can see that that file has been

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added to my Jen White folder. Let's take a look at that file and see what it looks like.

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When I double-click on the file, it opened in the application that Adobe Bridge associates with that

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file type. In this case, it is the text edit application. This

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file is comprised of words and tabs, top-level

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keywords in the keyword panel are at the left edge of the file with

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no tabs. Sub keywords in the keyword panel,

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like the keyword Indiana, are shown in the text file with one tab before

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the word. If there were additional keywords under the keyword of

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Indiana, so like Indiana had a couple sub keywords themselves. They

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would look similar to this. I would return, press the tab twice, type in

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a city. South Bend. add another one. Fort Wayne.

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and that would be a secondary sub keyword. Now notice that I have typed these out

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of alphabetical order. That is not going to be a problem, because if you do work in the

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text file and then import this text file into your keywords panel, which we'll be doing

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in just a second, it will automatically alphabetize them for you. So this text file

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for keywords can be very helpful, especially if you have a lot of keywording that you want to set up.

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I would mostly recommend working with this text file if you need to set up keywords before

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you actually apply them to your images. So let's say for example, that I wanted

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to set up some sub keywords for my bird photos. Instead of having to click on

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the plus icon every time and then type in a keyword, I can just do this in my text file.

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So I would click on the end of that main keyword, which are my bird photos.

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I'll press enter and then I'm going to tab over once to get a sub keyword.

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I can type in Robin and then maybe red-

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bellied woodpecker and then maybe one more. Downy

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woodpecker. I could possibly even separate out the males and the females.

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by making additional sub keywords. I would click return and then press the tab

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two times to make a sub keyword for the downy woodpecker. I'll type

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in male, press return, press tap twice, and type in female.

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Again, these are not in order alphabetically, but when I import them into my keywords panel,

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they are going to be alphabetized automatically. And then let's take a look at some importing

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options. That keyword text file is just going to sit over there in

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this Jen White folder for now. To add a text file of keywords in the keywords

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panel, click on the panel menu and choose import. The

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import option is going to append the current keywords, not replace them.

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So basically it will just add to what you already have. If a keyword or a

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sub keyword from the file is the same as a keyword or sub keyword

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in the panel, then it will be skipped. If a keyword

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or sub keyword in the file is new, then it will be added to the keyword panel

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and arranged alphabetically. So let me show you how that looks. I

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will navigate to my keyword file, which is right here

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and click open. And now you can see in the keywords

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panel that the new keywords that I added in the file have been added here

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in the panel. If I click on this arrow next to Downy Woodpecker, you will also see

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those additional sub keywords. So that was the import option that

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appends the keywords that are currently in the keyword panel. Let's open

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that keyword text file one more time. And this time, I know

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for a fact that I'm not going to be using event keywords. So I'm just going to go ahead

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and erase them out of my text file. I'm going to add to the people. I don't

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have a Matthew or a Ryan in my family. Let's change this to Larry

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and Jen and I'll add

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one for my kids. Create some sub keywords

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for my three kids Paige, Galen

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and Carter. Galen has two children. So

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I'm going to create a sub keyword for them, Stetson

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and Tobias. I'm also not going to use the places

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keyword. I'll just go ahead and get rid of those and I'm going

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to take out the other keywords. So let's say that I did a whole bunch of

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work for how I want my keywords to look before I start tagging my photos.

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So I've got them to this point. I'm going to save my text file. Again,

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it's sitting over here in my Jen White folder. It could be anywhere on your computer. It doesn't

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really matter as long as you remember where it is. And this time I'm actually going to replace all the

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current keywords in the keyword panel with my text file. To do that,

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in the keywords panel, click on the panel menu and choose clear and import.

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Again, it's going to ask me to navigate to that file and I know that it's right here.

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I'll click open and now my keyword panel only contains the keywords

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that I know that I'm going to use. So it's got my birds and I'm going to expand

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this list of my kids and my grandkids. I'll just state

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again, the keywords is not something that I typically use when organizing

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files in Adobe Bridge. But regardless of that, in the next three modules,

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we are going to extensively talk about keywords just in case you want to use them.

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But just to be clear, I do not consider them to be essential. I'm going to go ahead and

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close the keywords panel by clicking on the panel menu and choosing close panel.

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So that's how you work with the keywords panel. This has been Jen White.