How can I find photos containing two specific people in Lightroom 6?

Asked 10/4/2016

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In Lightroom 6, I want to find images that contain both of two named people from face/keyword metadata, not photos containing either one or the other. Is there a way to do an AND search for multiple people or keywords in the Library filter?

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Lightroom has a nice feature for this. It might look complicated but it is really easy and powerful! After getting accustomed it becomes 'piece of cake'.

  1. [optional] Clear Quick Collection
  2. Filter photos with the first of your kids (by clicking on apropriate keyword)
  3. Select all of them (Ctrl-A or Command-A)
  4. Filter photos with the second of your kids (by clicking on apropriate keyword) - important! it must be a single click change
  5. Now only photos that BOTH of your kids are on will stay selected
  6. [optional] If the selection alone is not enough for you - add the selection to Quick Collection by pressing "B"
  7. [optional] Display Quick Collection

BTW1. You can continue to filter the third of your kids ;) and so on.

BTW2. This is a common way to find the intersection of two sets of photos. For example you can select all photos in one of your collection and then change collection to another one - now you have selected all photos that are in BOTH collection. This can be used to find the intersection between any sets filtered by keywords, collections, folders or an arbitrary selection of your choice.

UPDATE 2016-10-14: Unfortunately I have noticed important bug in LR 6 - when the intersection is an empty set LR selects a first photo!!! I guess it a new bug in version 6 that means my method is not reliable as it was.

Originally by user11319. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

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Yes. In Lightroom 6 you can find the intersection of two people/keywords by using the Library Filter in Metadata mode.

A straightforward method is:

  • Go to All Photographs.
  • Open the Library Filter bar and choose Metadata.
  • Set the first column to Keyword and select the first person’s keyword.
  • Set a second column to Keyword as well and select the second person’s keyword.

The grid will then show only photos that match both selected keywords.

Another workable approach is:

  • Filter to the first person.
  • Select all matching photos.
  • Change the filter to the second person with a single click.
  • The remaining selected photos are the ones that contain both people.

You can then add those to the Quick Collection if helpful.

So, despite some limitations in Lightroom search, this particular AND-style keyword search is possible without needing a plugin.

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