Merging Titles, Keywords, Caption

huseyinhuseyin Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
edited June 3, 2016 in SmugMug Customization
Is there a way to merge Titles, Keywords and Captions into "Keywords". I realized I kept some info in Titles and some in Keywords, but it's so much easier to add keywords in bulk edit mode. Is it possible to just copy all Titles and Captions and move them (append) into Keywords?
My smugmug still under construction & organization with 17,000 images and counting... meanwhile check my Flickr

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  • pilotdavepilotdave Registered Users Posts: 785 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2016
    huseyin wrote: »
    Is there a way to merge Titles, Keywords and Captions into "Keywords". I realized I kept some info in Titles and some in Keywords, but it's so much easier to add keywords in bulk edit mode. Is it possible to just copy all Titles and Captions and move them (append) into Keywords?

    I'd recommend using the chrome extension to bulk edit photo info instead of improperly using keywords. Titles, captions, and keywords all have different uses and mixing them will just make a mess.

    I personally don't use titles because they were only introduced with new smug, so none of my older galleries would have them. But captions and titles individually describe a photo and should usually be unique for each photo. Keywords should be repeatable... Lots of photos can have the same keywords. If you put a caption into a keyword, it would defeat the purpose of "keywording " or "tagging" photos. The beauty of keywords is the ability to find other photos with one or more of the same keywords. If each photo contains unique keywords that only apply to that photo, they are no longer useful. Might as well use captions for that.

    Dave
  • huseyinhuseyin Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2016
    The reason I asked for this is I realized I was putting keywords in Title, basically names, places, etc.. so all that work I've been doing should have been in Keywords.
    I noticed Titles still work to find persons/places using search but if keywords are more useful, like if there is a keyword cloud or clicking on certain keywords taking you to other pictures with same keywords, I think I should have used only the keywords.

    Another reason I regret using Titles (I had no idea!) that titles are not added anywhere when downloading the pictures.
    Now that I checked, it doesn't look like anything Titles/Keywords/Caption is added to downloaded picture at all.

    So if there is a way to merge all descriptions/titles/captions to Keywords, that would be great and very useful for me. Now, to be honest, I have no idea which files I used Title and which ones Caption, etc..

    I guess you are right, using Chrome, I'll just copy/paste one by one.
    I wish SM had just Caption & Keywords.
    My smugmug still under construction & organization with 17,000 images and counting... meanwhile check my Flickr
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