Keywords or tags are the hottest topic when it comes to organizing your pictures. So what does an image organizer software do in order to create and add keywords to image files ?

I have been looking for a long time for some software that would allow me to manage keywords in an efficient manner. What do I mean by efficient? It’s pretty simple: all I want is the ability to group my keywords into categories or domains. For example: I want car, boat, ship, carriage, bus and bicycle to all be grouped into a domain called transportation. Can I do that with Adobe Lightroom?

When I read articles regarding the creation of keywords for the purpose of tagging pictures, I see two kinds of advice: some say you should just start adding keywords to your images others say you should be careful and think through your keywords before creating them.

It is rare when a complex problem can have a simple solution. Most of the times however, a complex problem can have a simple solution that only works well for some of the times. This is the case with folder based method of organizing your pictures. So, how do you know when folders are not enough?

Most people believe that tags and folders exclude each other, but this article will show that if used together they can create a simple yet powerful organization structure for your pictures.