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title: "Keywords for Photographers"
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category: "Guides > Teams > Using DPG for collaborative galleries > Team Preparation > Photographers"
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updated_at: 2020-01-07T23:01:19Z
source: Digital Photo Gallery Support
---

# Keywords for Photographers

Keywords are a way of adding information to images, both for internal categorisation and to provide structure to website galleries. You can add keywords in your editing software such as Lightroom, or in DPG after uploading.

You should be provided with a list of keywords to use for your event. Read on to learn more about how keywords work.

### Namespaced keywords

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Namespaced keywords are used to group together keywords of the same type, such as artists, areas or events. 

This example shows an image with **artist:** and **stage:** keywords.

### Namespaced keyword conventions

Namespaced keywords use this format:

```
namespace:Item
```

* The namespace should always be lowercase followed by a colon (:), e.g. **artist:** or **stage:**
* There should be no space before or after the :, e.g. **artist:Coldplay** not **artist : Coldplay**
* The item after the namespace should be written in standard case e.g. **day:Saturday**
* Multiple namespaced keywords can be added, separated by a comma

For example, a band called Grey Sheep on the Main Stage would be keyworded as:

```
artist:Grey Sheep, stage:Main Stage

```

> ⚠️ **Warning:** Keywords are case-sensitive so artist:Lana Del Rey is different from artist:LANA DEL REY. Inconsistent capitalisation will result in duplicate keywords showing up in the gallery.

### Simple keywords

You may also have some individual keywords to use, such as **People** or **Atmosphere**. These don't have a namespace prefix, but otherwise can be used in the same way and should be separated by commas. 

You can include both simple and namespaced keywords in a string separated by a comma:

```
area:The Secret Garden, Atmosphere, People

```

### Automatic keywords

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On the **Upload** screen you may see that some keywords will be added to your images automatically.}

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### Adding keywords in Adobe Lightroom

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You can add keywords in Lightroom by entering them (separated by a comma) in the **Keywording** panel before exporting. When uploading your images to DPG, make sure that **Get details from image metadata** is turned on on the upload screen. 

 You can also add or remove keywords [using the DPG interface](https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/eb94ce26-ab82-11e2-bb5f-b8f6b11825bb).

### Examples

Double check spelling and copy/paste rather than typing by hand.

✅ artist:Kendrick Lamar

❌ artist:Kendrik Lamarr
- - -
The case and spelling should be correct, if you're not sure, check the list provided to you.

✅ artist:Bring Me The Horizon

❌ artist:Bring me the horizn
- - -
There is no space between artist: and the name of the artist

✅ artist:Skepta

❌ artist: Skepta
- - -
Multiple keywords should be separated by a comma. 

✅ artist:Dua Lipa, stage:Main stage

❌ artist:Dua Lipa stage:Main stage
- - -
Names with special characters or stylised capitalisation should be entered as such:

✅ artist:BØRNS

❌ artist:Borns
- - -
Keywords such as artists, stages, events and areas should always have the correct namespace before them.

✅ event:Hula Hooping Workshop, area:The Barn

❌ Hula Hooping Workshop, The Barn