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How to Add Keywords to Thousands of Photos Automatically
Manual keywording does not scale past a few hundred photos. A practical workflow to describe a whole archive in the background, privately, on your own PC.
Why XMP Sidecar Files Are the Safest Place for Photo Metadata
Embedding keywords rewrites files you cannot replace. How sidecars work, how they compare with embedded metadata, and which naming each app expects.
Getting AI Keywords into Lightroom, digiKam and darktable: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Which files each app reads sidecars for, the naming to choose, and the exact steps to load titles, captions and keywords into your catalog.
How to Find Old Photos on Windows When They Have No Tags
Quick File Explorer tricks for searching by date and folder, and how to make years of untagged pictures searchable by what is in them.