Faster Tagging using Lightroom

If you’ve taken a couple of dozen photos of runners at a race, it’s easy enough just to upload them to Flickr and use Flickr’s tagging functionality.

If, like us, you’ve taken hundreds of photos you’ll want to use some software like Adobe Lightroom to tag your photos before you upload them all to Flickr.

Load all your race photos into Lightroom, open up the ‘Library’ module, and find the keyword window over to the left – take a look at the screenshot below.

First up, select all of your photos from the race and add the keyword tags ‘42run’ and the name of the race to all of them. These are the tags that 42run uses to find your photos on Flickr.

Next, the fun part. You need to go through all the photos one at a time and tag each one with the bib numbers of the people in the photos. This enables the runners to find photos of themselves. With a bit of practice, you can tag about 500 photos like this in an hour, especially if you brew youself some strong coffee beforehand.

You’re now ready to batch upload your photos to Flickr using Flickr Uploadr or whatever software you prefer. When you’re done, all of your tags will be visible in Flickr, and 42run will be able to find them.

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