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Bulk remove keywords in Aperture

Author: Jason Category: photography Tags: aperture, keywords, photography, photos

Thursday
Apr 24, 2008

This was annoying me for some time. Particularly because:

  1. I couldn’t work out how to do it.
  2. I regularly make mistakes in adding keywords to a bulk set of images
  3. I only recently migrated to Aperture from iPhoto and all those imported images are tagged with “iPhoto Original”
  4. When I upload images to flickr I don’t want the weird tags on the images (ref to point 3!)

Anyway, because basically I’m dumb at that stuff, I found this little gem. It’s a great tip that essentially goes like this:

  1. Select the images that you want to blast those nasty bulk mistake keywords from
  2. Complain to yourself mentally that you wouldn’t need to be doing this if you hadn’t made the mistake in the first place
  3. Make sure the keyword controls are visible (Window -> Show control bar, Window -> Show keyword controls)
  4. Type the keyword you want removed in the keyword box, and (Wait for it)
  5. Press Shift-Enter. Now this is very important. Shift-Enter.

My life is bliss.


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  • Christian Ashby
    Or - slightly more intuitive...

    1. Select the photos you want to remove the keyword from.
    2. Window->Show keywords HUD. Search for the nasty keyword.
    3. Click the keyword, then click the delete button (crossed circle)
  • Jason Elston
    Thanks for the alternative Christian. That is definitely more
    straightforward.
  • liz
    thanks. just what I needed to know
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