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Chapter 12
Searching for and Displaying Images
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Searching by Keyword
You can search for and locate images by any of the keywords that you’ve assigned to
them. You can select one or more keywords to search for. You can also specify which
keywords an image must have to qualify as a match. For example, you can choose to
search for images that have both Silhouette and Landscape as keywords, or images that
have either Silhouette or Landscape as keywords.
To search for images by keyword:
1
In the Projects panel, select a project or an album you want to search.
2
Show the Query HUD by doing one of the following:
 Choose Edit > Find (or press Command-F).
 Click the Query HUD button beside the search field in the Browser.
3
In the Query HUD, select the Keywords checkbox.
Note: The Keywords checkbox is dimmed if no keywords have been applied to the
images in the selected project or album.
4
Choose an option from the Keywords pop-up menu:
 To display images that have any of the selected keywords: Choose “contain one or more
of the following.”
 To display only those images that have all the keywords you selected: Choose “contain
all of the following.”
5
Select the checkboxes next to the keywords you want to search for.
6
Choose “any” from the Match pop-up menu, if it’s not already chosen.
You can also search for IPTC keywords using the IPTC search options. These options
allow you to specify searches for specific IPTC fields in a variety of ways. For example,
you can search for any images that don’t have keywords assigned. For more
information, see “
The images that match the search criteria are immediately displayed in the Browser. To
save your search results, see “
Select the Keywords
checkbox.
Choose an option from
the Keywords pop-up
menu.
Select the checkbox next
to each keyword you
want to search for.