Currently, when in the Photolibrary folder, I can see stars even for photos not currently selected.
When culling, it would be useful to see All those tahta re marked as Picked / Rejected (red or green dot), not only when i mouse over or select an image.
"
That way, it is much easier to decide if, form a large selection of similar photos, these are any left picked or unselected.
Even better woudl be if all TAgs AND colour labels remain always visible in thiss view. (like start ratings)
See Edit â Preferences â Display â âImage browserâ section.
wow, great many thanks!
Will see if i can delete my suggestion
Would you have any idea how I can show any photos in a floder taht have not yet been tagged (keyworded)?
@RAGING_FURY As far as I know there is no way of either âFilteringâ or âSortingâ or âSearchingâ on the absence of any Keyword.
âSearchingâ will yield something like this simply by entering the keyword of interest into the search field but there is actually no identifier to indicate that you actually want to search on a keyword.
You can sort on
and you can Filter on
But neither are much help for your âNullâ query.
DxO have made it simple, either for the (potential) benefit to users or to their interface and /or to their coding but actually it makes the product rather restrictive!
Thank you Bryan, it would be great if DXO could be transparent on what they are working on, a little on their roadmap and feedback on Customer suggestions.
At the moment, we can just post, vote and hope for the best, Some kind of Roadmap would be nice.
With regards to this particular suggestion (keywording and filtering images that have not yet been keyworded), I would imagine would be easy to implement.
This can be achieved with ExifToolâŚ
exiftool -if 'not defined $subject' -r -filename .
But that only searches for files that have never been keyworded. You would also have to check for those whose keyword exists but is an empty value.
Thank you Joanna. That woudl be an option but , for me not a great one as I do the keywording and tagging in PhotoLab, it makes more sence and woudl save time if this filter would be added.
I also use PhotoMove which could also give me a report which ones have it missing. but much nicer to have it in teh smae place where we actually do the tagging.
Fingers crossed DXO will add this.
@RAGING_FURY I have voted on this and your other topic but I fear that the chances of DxO taking note are miniscule, actually even smaller than that and as for a published roadmap, not a chance!
They seem to close the book on old developments and never (or hardly ever) return to finish them or clean up any mess they have made.
Actually my latter statement is slightly untrue because they have fixed some missteps they have made but only after colossal amounts of user pressure or when it was obvious that it was a really stupid step to have taken in the first place.
Submit a support request to at least get it logged in the system. The Voting system is essentially a bad joke but we must work with whatever we have, albeit with next to zero DxO involvement in the forum, excluding the lens and camera support posts, we are in the lap of the DxO gods - so not much hope there then.
Sorry to be so bleak but âŚ
I am afraid you need to create your own workaround, e.g. if you donât already use it then set the ⌠sorry that was why you wrote the first post!!
If you are not using âRatingsâ (stars) then use them or use Colour (Color) to identify all images that have keywords set.
Alternatively for a small fee (ÂŁ0) I could provide you with a program to go looking for keywords, or rather the lack of them, and submit the file names to DxPL.
I just got ChatGPT to write the code to submit requests to DxPL and that works fine on PL7.13.0 (I need to switch machines to test on PL8.6.0 so that will be later today) and got this
I have been doing a lot of coding on splitting DOPs into âAlbumsâ recently so I have a lot of DOP handling code and it is relatively easy to find âKeywordsâ in DOPs and the absence of DOPs entirely but that would mean using software developed by me.
It is relatively benign because no DOPs would be hacked in the process and all the work is then done in PhotoLab.
Sidecar = {
Date = "2025-05-26T11:26:11.8757989Z",
Software = "DxO PhotoLab 7.13",
Source = {
CafId = "C52854a",
Items = {
{
Albums = "",
CreationDate = "2025-05-26T10:51:27.7716223Z",
IPTC = {
}
,
Keywords = {
{
"just added",
}
,
}
,
ModificationDate = "2025-05-26T10:51:27.9255722Z",
Name = "image1.jpg",
Orientation = 1,
and Pigs might fly
Sounds like a good request indeed.
Example: hundreds of vacation photos, when keywords are added for selected non-contiguous groups and the whole process lasts several days. You may use some other flag for emulation (like Picked/Unpicked or Stars), but thatâs very clumsy and awkward. Using PL database or dop files for the purpose is certainly not for an average user.
We are completely off the original topic title, so perhaps itâs time to change it?
You are right, i did go off topic.
I have posted a suggestion a few days ago:
Filter images without a keyword - DxO PhotoLab / Feature requests - DxO Forum
Thanks, forgot about that.