Assign keyword to one photo at a time

[nancyw1025313]

In Lightroom 5, working in Library grid view, I have one photo highlighted in the grid.  I'm trying to assign existing keywords to just this photo, but every time I assign a keyword, the keyword attaches to every photo in the folder.  What am I doing wrong?

[dj_paige]

Are you sure you have only one photo selected?

Can you show us a screen capture of the one photo selected?

[nancyw1025313]

[dj_paige]

How are you assigning the keyword to this one photo?

[nancyw1025313]

Tried a few ways:

Clicked into Keyword Tag box and typed

Made a Keyword set and selected from the set

Selected an item in the keyword list

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

Hi Nancy,

Just looking at your screen-clip.

What Keyword are you trying to assign to this one photo selected?

If it is "Genovesa" you can assign it by clicking in the box to the left of the Keyword "Genovesa" when the cursor hovers over. It will then show '1' instead of '0'

If you had 3 photos selected- clicking the box would add "Genovesa" to 3 photos and show '3'

The Keyword list shows that you have 150 photos keyworded with "Galapagos" and the panel above is displaying all keywords attached to the one selected photo (which in this case is one keyword "Galapagos" until you add another!)