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To start keywording your photo collection, launch Adobe Bridge, and select the default Essentials workspace. You should find the Keywords tab on the right of the window, alongside the Metadata tab. If for some reason you don’t see it, or if you’d prefer to use your own custom workspace as I do, go to the Window menu, and check the Keywords option to open the window.

You’ll see a panel with some default sample keywords already in place, including the names of some (presumably) fictitious people and a few other categories, such as the names of some cities. These are just there as an example, and you can edit or delete any that you don’t want. You can also add new keywords that suit your photo collection. To add a new keyword, either right-click in the keywords window or click on the “+” symbol at the bottom of the window. To edit an existing keyword, or to add a new sub-keyword, right click on the line you want to change.


One very useful feature of Bridge’s keyword system is the ability to set up nested keywords. In the example above you can see that I’ve got France as a main keyword, with various towns in France as sub-keywords. This way, if I search for the term “Collioure” the program will only return results with that sub-keyword, but if I search for “France” then the results will include all the sub-keywords in that category. This is a good way to organise photos, since you will often have broad categories with several sub-categories, for example “Vehicles: Cars, Bikes, Boats, Planes, Trains”, or “Parties: Birthday, Eid, Halloween, Thanksgiving”, or “Children: Crying, Bawling, Sulking, Making a mess.” It’s a good idea to plan your keyword categories before you start labelling your pictures, but you can edit them later if you think of new ones.

You can move sub-keywords from one place to another simply by dragging and dropping them, so for instance if you think “Racing” belongs under “Sport”, and not under “Cars”, you can simply drag it into the new category and all the nested sub-categories will move with it.

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