How to remove a keyword in Aperture 3

In the Metadata inspector I miss the keywords-list, which in Aperture 2 used to be at the bottom of the Metadata tab.

There are different layouts available in this inspector. Click on the dropdown on the upper left.

Regards

TD

Did you open your Keyword HUD and try there?

Use the Keywords and Captions view, highlight the keyword you want to delete at delete it.

Regards

TD

If you open your metadata tab, you can just delete it there in your metadata field. Otherwise, you can go to your menu bar and choose Window>Show Keyword Controls. Once this appears in the bottom of the Browser, just choose your set and go back to the menu bar and choose Metadata>Remove...

If you have the keyword controls active (Window/Show Keyword controls), then you can "Control-Shift-Click" on a keyword to remove it from an image. Fastest way I've found.

Brent

I think this answers part of the question, and probably all of the OP's question, but the issue of affecting keywords using Aperture is still murky in my mind.

So...

Using the Keywords HUD, you can kill off a keyword everywhere it exists in the whole library. Cool.
Individually, you can use the metadata panel to remove keyword(s) one image at a time. Cool.

But, say you import a whole bunch of images and mistype a keyword (the city? 🙂. It would be extremely cool to just replace the old keyword with the corrected one. Here's an example of where it breaks down for me:

- Import 1,700 images from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Stupidly, I realize that half are from Cabo San Lucas, so I move them to a Cabo project.
- Wish I could change "Puerto Vallarta" to "Cabo San Lucas" for just that set of images.

Any hints how this might be done?

Thanks

Piece of cake (Aperture is -- like most programs -- very good at batch processing).

Select all the images which have the wrong keyword. Remove it from all of them (use whatever method you like). All the images are still selected. Add the new keyword (use whatever method you like).

Databases are tremendously powerful at ... manipulating data. In all cases they follow the now-standard "Noun, Verb" syntax: first select what you want to act on, then specify the action.

There are four separate specific sections in the User Manual detailing applying keywords:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=10%26se ction=0

And one specific section on removing them:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=10%26se ction=8%26tasks=true

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger to add links to User Manual.