Attach tags to images, and manage the tag dictionary.
Le etichette forniscono un modo di aggiungere informazioni alle immagini usando un dizionario di parole chiavi. Puoi anche gestire le etichette in gerarchia, il ché può essere utile quando diventano molte.
Tags are physically stored in XMP sidecar files as well as in Ansel’s library database and can be included in exported images.
In Ansel, attaching tags is also the way to build collections: a collection is the dynamically-queried set of all images sharing a given tag, always kept up to date. So the everyday job of this module — attaching a tag to images — is the same act as “putting images into a collection”. The tag dictionary itself (creating, renaming, deleting, importing and exporting tags) is a separate, occasional, housekeeping task and lives in its own window.
Definitions
Le seguenti definizioni presuppongono che tu abbia impostato una singola etichetta “luoghi|Italia|Toscana|Rio Marina”.
- etichetta
- Un’etichetta è un testo descrittivo che può essere allegata ad un’immagine. Un’etichetta può essere un singolo termine o una sequenza di termini che formano un percorso, separati dal simbolo “pipe
|”. Per esempio, “luoghi|Italia|Toscana|Rio Marina” definisce un’etichetta singola, dove ogni termine nel percorso identifica un sottoinsieme dell’insieme definito dal termine che lo precede. Puoi allegare ad un’immagine quante etichette desideri. Puoi assegnare proprietà alle etichette (nome, privata, categoria, sinonimo e ordine immagine).
- nodo
- Qualsiasi percorso che è parte di un’etichetta è un nodo. Nell’esempio di cui sopra “
luoghi”, “luoghi|Italia”, “luoghi|Italia|Toscana” e “luoghi|Italia|Toscana|Rio Marina” sono tutti nodi. Nella visualizzazione ad albero gerarchico i nodi costituiscono i rami e le foglie dell’albero. - nodo libero
- Qualsiasi nodo che non è stato esplicitamente definito come etichetta è chiamato nodo libero. Nell’esempio precedente “
luoghi”, “luoghi|Italia” e"luoghi|Italia|Toscana" sono tutti nodi liberi. Per i nodi liberi non puoi impostare alcuna proprietà al di fuori di “nome”, e non possono essere aggiunti alle immagini. Controlla la sezione “etichette multiple” più in basso per maggiori informazioni. - categoria
- Ogni etichetta può essere contrassegnata dall’utente per essere una “categoria”.
Module layout
The tagging experience is split across two surfaces, matching the two distinct jobs of culling (fast, frequent) and dictionary maintenance (occasional):
flowchart TB
subgraph Sidebar["Tags sidebar — lighttable / map (top to bottom)"]
C["view (list/tree) · sort (name/count)"]
B["Tag entry + ✓ validate button —
type or pick a tag, then Enter or ✓ to attach"]
A["Attached tags list — tags on the hovered / selected
images, shown as a list or a tree, trash icon on each row"]
D["☑ show system tags"]
end
M["module gear menu → “manage tags…”"]
subgraph Popup["“manage tags…” window"]
E["Tag dictionary — list / tree, multiple selection,
no per-image checkboxes"]
F["search box · new · import… · export… · tree/list · suggestions"]
G["suggestion settings: confidence · recent-tags count"]
end
M -->|opens| Popup
The sidebar toolbox (the Tags module in the left panel) is for the “one image → many tags” workflow: it shows the tags already on the current image and lets you attach more. The manage tags window is for the dictionary itself (create / rename / delete / import / export) and its suggestion settings. It never attaches anything to your images — it only edits the tags. Open it from the module’s gear (preset) menu → manage tags….
Usage
Attach a tag
To attach an existing or new tag to the image(s) under the cursor (or, failing that, the selected images):
- Type its name in the sidebar tag entry — picking from the autocompletion list if it already exists — then press Enter or click the ✓ validate button. Hierarchical tags are created using the pipe symbol “
|” to separate nodes. If the tag does not yet exist it is created, then attached. - Press Ctrl+T to open a small text box at the bottom of the central lighttable view, type a tag name and press Enter. The tag is created if needed and attached to all the selected images.
- Drag an image or group of images from the lighttable/filmstrip and drop them onto a tag row in the collections tab of the Library module. This attaches that tag to the dragged images (no file is moved).
For a tag that is attached to only some of the targeted images (shown with a count lower than the number of images), right-click it in the attached list and choose attach tag to all to extend it to every targeted image.
When hovering over images in the lighttable you can check which tags are attached either in the attached list here, or in the tags attribute of the image information module.
Detach a tag
From the attached tags list in the sidebar:
- click the trash icon on the tag’s row to detach that one tag;
- double-click a tag to detach it;
- select one or several tags and press the Delete / Backspace key;
- select one or several tags, right-click, and choose detach tag(s) to detach them all in one go;
- right-click anywhere in the list (even on empty space) and choose detach all tags to remove every tag from the targeted images at once.
Create a tag
Esistono diverse maniere per creare una nuova etichetta:
- Type into the sidebar entry and press Enter (or ✓). The tag is created and attached to the target images in one step.
- Use “create tag…” in the dictionary’s right-click menu (manage tags window). The tag is created under the selected node (hierarchical) or at the root, and is not attached to any image.
- Use “set as a tag” in the right-click menu to turn a free node (e.g. “
places|England”) into a real tag, so that it gets implicitly attached to all images carrying its sub-tags (e.g. “places|England|London”). - Import a Lightroom keyword text file (the import… button). Existing tags are updated, new ones are created. You can export your tags, edit the file, and re-import it.
- Import already-tagged images. Tags found in imported images are added to the dictionary (no opportunity to rename or re-categorize them during import).
A number of tags are generated automatically by Ansel for certain actions — for example “Ansel|exported” and “Ansel|styles|your_style” identify images that have been exported or had a style applied.
Edit / rename a tag
In the manage tags window, right-click a single tag:
- edit…
- Change the tag’s name (you cannot move it to another node here — the pipe “
|” is not allowed in this field), and set its private and category flags and its synonyms. The command is aborted if the new name already exists. These attributes are recorded in theXMP-dc SubjectandXMP-lr Hierarchical Subjectmetadata. Which tags end up in exports is controlled in the export module. - A tag set as “private” is, by default, not exported.
- A tag set as “category” is not exported in
XMP-dc Subject, but is exported inXMP-lr Hierarchical Subject(which holds the organization of your tags).
- A tag set as “category” is not exported in
- “synonyms” enrich the tag information and mainly assist search engines — e.g. “juvenile”, “kid” or “youth” as synonyms of “child”. They can also be used to translate tag names to other languages.
- change path…
- Available in tree view only. Lets you change the full path of a node, including the nodes it belongs to (use the pipe “
|” to specify the hierarchy). The dialog shows how many tagged images would be impacted. This is powerful but can significantly rewrite your images’ metadata, so use it carefully. The operation is aborted if it would conflict with an existing tag.
A quick way to reorganize the structure is drag and drop of nodes in the tree view: drag any node and drop it onto another node to make it (and its descendants) a child of the target. Dragging over a node opens it automatically (drag over the node’s selection indicator to avoid opening it). Drop a node onto the top of the window to move it to the root level. Conflicting moves are aborted.
The “copy to entry” right-click item copies the selected tag into the search box, so you can tweak its name and use new to create a similar tag.
Delete a tag
Deleting a tag removes it from all images (selected or not) and from the database. Because this can impact many images, a confirmation dialog shows how many images are affected. Take this warning seriously — there is no undo (short of restoring your database and/or XMP sidecars from a backup).
In the manage tags window:
- right-click a tag and choose delete tag;
- select several tags (Ctrl-click / Shift-click) and right-click → delete tags to remove them all after a single confirmation;
- right-click a branch node and choose delete node to delete that node together with all its child tags.
Tags can also be deleted (and renamed) from the collections tab of the Library module.
Import / export
The import… button reads a text file in the Lightroom tag file format: existing tags are updated, missing ones are created. The export… button writes the entire dictionary to such a file. Round-tripping (export, edit, re-import) is a convenient way to bulk-edit tags.
Keyboard
- In the sidebar entry, Enter attaches the typed/picked tag (creating it if needed). Shift+Tab moves focus to the first user tag in the attached list.
- In the attached list, Tab returns focus to the entry; Delete / Backspace detaches the selected tag(s).
- In the manage tags window, the dictionary’s Left/Right arrows collapse/expand the selected node in tree view; Tab / Shift+Tab move focus to/from the search box.