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Add keywords

- [Instructor] We're now in the second stage of the Lightroom Classic workflow, which is organizing your photos. Keywords are a key component of an organized catalog because keywords help you search for and find images later. I'm going to show you the spray paint method for applying keywords, because it's the easiest and the quickest. But first, let's take a look at the images that are here. I'm viewing this in the Library module grid view, so that we can see the keywording panel on the right-hand side. If I select any image in this grid, it shows us the two keywords, Santa Barbara and travel. These two keywords have been applied to all of the images in this folder because they were applied to the images during the import. Now we want to apply more specific keywords using the Metadata Painter tool. With the toolbar visible at the bottom of the grid view, you should see this spray paint can, and that is your Metadata…

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