Keyword Manager 1.1 adds major keyword management features, more

Keyword Manager from Bullstorm scored a license purchase from yours truly the day we found it, and the feature-packed iPhoto keyword plugin recently had an unassuming but handy upgrade to v1.1. Clicking on the "What's New?" heading at Bullstorm's site reveals a strong list of new features, including:

Address Book auto-completion
Share keywords between photo libraries
Alphabetic sorting of keyword lists
Preferences windows
Built-in software update

If you've been looking for an easier-to-use and more powerful way to wrangle your iPhoto library, I highly recommend giving Keyword Manager's full-featured demo a try. One of its most useful features, besides highly streamlining the tagging/keyword assigning process, is its ability to filter keywords in a search. This is something iPhoto is sorely lacking, but Keyword Manager makes it easy to pick keywords to both search for and exclude. This feature alone is easily worth a good portion of the plugin's $19 USD (€19 in Sweden and EU) for a single license.

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scfgouveia

I have installed keyword manager and now iphoto doesn't work. I would like to know how I can safely uninstall the software and get iphoto working again. It's a bit urgent as well, as I need this for work.

Thanks

February 04 2007 at 1:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Chartier

#'s 11 and 12: ditto. Whether's KA or KM, iPhoto has gone without features like this for far too long. On the flip side, I'm glad these devs can get the attention and make some money off providing some great plugins... oh what a twisted web!

January 29 2007 at 3:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Keyword Manager really is good. I'm hoping it becomes another coverflow as it does something that iPhoto should do out of the box. KA was great and Kudos to the dev for offering it for free.

January 29 2007 at 7:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Anyway, this seems like a feature Apple has to include in the next upgrade to iPhoto. So I'll wait and see what's in store for the next iPhoto.

January 29 2007 at 4:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Bell

One point about filtering keywords in iPhoto. If you bring up the standard keywords "pane" and option-click a keyword, it will filter it out of the view.

January 28 2007 at 8:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Bell

Can it save the keywords into the files like Picasa does or are they still part of a database so your hard keywording work is lost if your photos are moved to another system or image cataloging program?

January 28 2007 at 8:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Olivier

Thank you saketini99, I'll try Keyword Manager right now.

January 28 2007 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

Olivier-
Keyword Manager will do that, you just assign Matt as a sub-keyword of Friends and it's automatically entered. I used KA before and Keyword Manager is definitely worth the money .

January 28 2007 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Olivier

Anyone knows if this plugin or another way, could link keyword together. i.e. I have the keyword "Friends" and "Matt". Is there a way to have the keyword "Friends" automatically added to a picture I tag with "Matt"?

January 28 2007 at 5:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bart Lee

Geez, Dave, lighten up. There's nothing wrong with posting a strong free alternative. If I hadn't known about Keyword Assistant, I'd be happy to learn about it as well and make up my own mind. I've been using KA for a while now and have found it to be perfect for my needs. While Keyword Manager definitely looks sexier, I can't find any real reason to make the jump.

January 28 2007 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply