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Search by Open Vocabulary
You type in any keywords that you want to search for.

This search allows you to enter any words, partial words or series of words. While providing the most freedom, it's also a hit and miss system. It checks the both image caption and the keywords for those containing your exact combination of words or letters. It may find images with words entered in an image description, but not entered into its keywords.

Search by Closed Vocabulary
You select words from menus listing existing keyword entries.

This search limits your selections to a fixed set of words. Since you have a limited number of choices, your chances of successful searches are increased. It search checks only the keywords that have been assigned to each image and does not take the words in its caption into consideration.

Search Tips

Searches are not case sensitive.
Singular words usually have more success than plurals.
Do NOT use punctuation.

And vs Or
The simple words AND and OR, used along with any series of search words, can make a significant difference in what you do, or don't, find in your searches. When you indicate AND, you're saying that the results must contain ALL of your search criteria. OR means any entries that satisfy any part of your search criteria should be selected. AND is much more precise and as a result, is more restrictive, yielding fewer results.

Example: A search for Black AND White means an entry containing Black, Blue, Green and an entry containing White, Red, Yellow should both be ignored while an entry containing Black, Blue, White, Red should be chosen since it's the only one containing both Black AND White. A search for Black OR White would choose all three entries since each has at least one or the other.