Ever since I bought Lightroom I've been trying to figure out how to 'and' two keywords together. My collection has over 5000 images of my daughter. To find an image of her reading I need to be able say "name and reading". In Elements this was easy - I just clicked on both tags and I got the and'd list. 'Or' wasn't an explicit option instead a check box appeared at the bottom of screen saying "near/close matches".

It wasn't until I read a tip in Sean McCormack's blog that I realized just what I'd missed. In the Library Module on the left hand side (in the navigation pane) there is a find box. Its funny I'd never really noticed it before - all I need to is enter the keywords I want and they will automatically be and'd together. Apparently the interface also supports exclude (or not) as ! - obvious perhaps only to regex geeks. If we're going to have a text based (vs mouse driven) find mechanism then perhaps Adobe could just give us all the functionality standard text search functionality: quotes, brackets for precedence etc.

Sean - thanks for shining a light in a darkened corner.

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