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Adding meta Data

Posted by: photorick (IP Logged)

Date: September 16, 2009 04:23PM

Hello,

I wish to submit images to one of the posts in PSI daily.
They want me to include ownership meta data, photographers namecontact info,caption and credit info. Do I simply do this by adding info into the file name. or how is this done.
If possible please send an example of a photo with this info along with directions as to how to go about it.

Thank You

Rick Nemish

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: James Cook (IP Logged)

Date: September 16, 2009 07:06PM

Metadata is text embedded in the image file itself and has nothing to do with the file name. You can't see metadata without software that can read it. In Photoshop it's the text accessed by File Info.

Metadata allows you to include caption, keywords, licensing info, and most important, your contact info.

You can find more info about metadata on my company's site at [HSLtd.us]

Also see:
[www.oceanlight.com]
or
[www.photometadata.org]


James Cook

Creator of:
METAmachine
FindAPhotographer

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: photorick (IP Logged)

Date: September 16, 2009 10:45PM

Thank You

Rick Nemish

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: Mike Karlsson (IP Logged)

Date: September 21, 2009 09:15AM

Rick:

As always James hands out good advice.

I would add just two things.

1. Most photo editing software will allow you to batch-add things like contact info, keywords and captions. Doing many images in one automated (once you've done the set-up) is a great task to hand over to your computer.

2. If you have a lot of images that need metadata, keywords, captions etc I'd recommend that you look at something like PhotoMechanic. Very fast and easy to work with. I use it for captioning and adding metadata to my images.

Mike Karlsson
PhotoSource International
www.photosource.com
mike@photosource.com

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: bknox (IP Logged)

Date: October 17, 2009 01:24PM

On some webites I often see a block of 15 to 30 words,in different colors. They are usually in different type styles and sizes and colors all crammmed together. Are these metadata and do the search engines recognize them? Would this help photo editors to find my pictures? Thank you for any insight on this. bknox

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: James Cook (IP Logged)

Date: October 18, 2009 09:19AM

Metadata consists of the words that describe the image. The description typically consists of a caption, keywords, ownership, copyright and contact information.

Text styles, fonts and colors have no part in it. I've never seen any sign that a search engine would pay any attention to any of that. They're looking at the words, not the display.

James Cook

Creator of:
METAmachine
FindAPhotographer

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Re: Adding meta Data

Posted by: rtodtphoto (IP Logged)

Date: November 25, 2009 04:24PM

It is worth checking this site out: www.photometadata.org

Rodney
www.rtodtphoto.com

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