If you photograph birds and use Lightroom, you will probably be interested in tagging and keywording accurate species information on your photos.
This can be a real pain, searching through field guides to look up species names and scientific names to tag your photos with. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone had done all that hard work for you?
Guess what?
Someone has, click through to read more (the links and instructions are at bottom of the post).
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The idea is you add the keyword of the bird species to an image, and Lightroom adds the family, scientific and international names to your keywords when you export to Photoshop, or anywhere else.
Great for preparing images for stock libraries or even just Flickr, smugmug etc.
Of course, there are more than 10,000 species of bird in the World, so creating a keyword library of all of those species is not really practical. Many of us will only see a fraction of those, let alone photograph them.
So I started with just the British List, as published by the BOU.
Each species has the official British name, scientific name and international English name (if applicable).
To make the list more useful for keywording, I have added family information into the hierarchy, which will also be included when you export.
So, if you were to add “Arctic Skua” to your photo then export it, the keywords will contain “Arctic Skua, Stercorarius parasiticus, Parasitic Jaeger, Skuas, Stercorariidae”.
Should makes life easy shouldn’t it?
Oh, and I didn’t stop with the British List, I created a library for the North American Checklist (as published by the AOU) too.
Instructions for installing the keyword library can be found here.
Download links for the various versions are here.
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