Using Lightroom 2, I'm trying to filter by multiple keywords (aka tags) at once, using an AND semantic. i.e. I want to find all pictures that have all of the specified keywords.
The closest I can find is to go to the Library Filter panel in Metadata mode and select multiple keywords, but that has an OR semantic, which is not what I want (and seems generally pretty useless!).
My other attempt was to use the Library Filter panel in Text mode and just search for the tag names, but that ends up finding a lot of unwanted things as well.
This seems like a very basic need, so I suspect I'm missing something obvious here. :)
Answer
The only way I know how to explicitly do this is with Smart Collections. With Smart Collections, you have the ability to choose either AND or OR semantics when configuring your criteria. There is another good thread on this subject here:
Good Uses for Lightroom's Smart Collections
Outside of smart collections, you can use the "Text" search mode in the library module. If you select "Keywords", and type in (separated by spaces) the keyword terms you are interested in, you can kind of get the behavior you are looking for, but it is not always ideal. This is because LR does a basic string search, and ANY term that matches will be included, regardless of whether it is a whole keyword, or just part of a keyword.
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