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Adding keywords to your images can make the difference to them being seen and licensed for use or just being more findable on your computer to left never to be viewed again. All kinds of search engines depend on keywords. There was a time when keywording was a nightmare but it's gotten a lot easier. Basically you'll want to add keywords that identify the subject. What or who it is, where it was and any other salient information which may include the Latin taxonomic names if you do stock or associated emotions for advertising and such. You don't want to go overboard but you want to include enough words so that someone looking for an image like yours will find it or that you can readily find your own images. Bridge has really made it a lot easier to add keywords. To begin click on the Keywords Tab. If it's not visible, come up here to Window and toggle it on right here. The keyword setup is nested, meaning that there is a hierarchy from more general terms to more specific. Although Adobe includes some items by default in your keywords, they may or may not be of use to you. For example, places was helpful to me. But events was not. I deleted events by clicking on it to select it and then clicking on the Trashcan Icon. I added additional new categories by clicking the Plus Icon. Whatever level of the hierarchy you're on when you click the Plus Icon determines the level of the new keyword. So if you want a broader one, you're going to click on one of the icons that's a broad level and click Plus. Now let's come over here and look. I have a lot of images from Yosemite National Park that's in California. If I want to add the keyword California, I could click on Places but then I would want to click Add New Sub-Keyword and I would type the word California. If I want a sub-keyword within California, I'll select California and then put New Sub-Keyword and put Yosemite National Park. The more images that I select, and in fact I could select all of the images, and then click the check boxes by Yosemite National Park, which also then checks California and Places. This will be applied to all of the images that are selected. If you find that you've added a keyword in the wrong place in your Keyword Panel, click on the keyword and then drag it where you'd like it. For example, Sky doesn't belong in Places. It should be under Other Keywords. In Other Keywords is also where I would add things that just don't fit into my other categories. After a while you'll have created an extensive list of keywords but perhaps you're not sure exactly where the keyword is. If you type it in the blank space here, for example, if I type in Lake, immediately any keyword that uses the word Lake will be highlighted for me. That saves the time of me visually searching for it. If you want to verify that your keywords are applied, you can double check within your Metadata and come over to Keywords. Now we'll pick a particular image and you'll see that it says California, Places, Yosemite, Yosemite National Park. You could also check to verify that you have the keywords added if you came up to the Refine Icon and chose File Information. Then you'll see that the keywords are listed right there. Get in the habit of keywording your images. In the long run it will save you time looking for them.