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I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

Rob M

In article , Rob M
wrote:

I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

I'd normally recommend Aperture, but it appears as if you are Win based
from your headers, so...

If you're comfortable with a command line, you can use ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Lightroom from Adobe will also allow some [limited] metadata to be
added, and can export directly to the jpegs.

Here's another place to look, you might find something the
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/se...tion=search&st
r=metadata&srchArea=windows&x=0&y=0

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

On Feb 8, 12:52 pm, "Rob M" wrote:
I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

Rob M

I use IrfanView to do that--it's free and an important part of my
workflow in addition to photoshop. You have to make sure you install
the plugins package with it, and then when you open an image hitting
alt+ i and then another i and you're into the area that will allow you
to monkey with the IPTC info or to add a comment. www.irfanview.com

"Rob M" wrote in message
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I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available.
I don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

Rob M


Use freeware with full editing of metadata:

http://www.xnview.com



Mathew Orman

http://tyrell-innovations-usa.com/shack3d/

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article , Rob M
wrote:

I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

I'd normally recommend Aperture, but it appears as if you are Win based
from your headers, so...

If you're comfortable with a command line, you can use ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Lightroom from Adobe will also allow some [limited] metadata to be
added, and can export directly to the jpegs.

What is the limitation on metadata that Lightroom can add?

--
John McWilliams

On Feb 8, 3:38 pm, John McWilliams wrote:
Ken Lucke wrote:
In article , Rob M
wrote:

I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

I'd normally recommend Aperture, but it appears as if you are Win based
from your headers, so...

If you're comfortable with a command line, you can use ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Lightroom from Adobe will also allow some [limited] metadata to be
added, and can export directly to the jpegs.

What is the limitation on metadata that Lightroom can add?


The limitation on lightroom is that it'll cease to function after a
certain date, and then you'll have to buy it for many hundreds of
dollars.

On Feb 8, 2:23 pm, "Mathew Orman" wrote:
"Rob M" wrote in message

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I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available.
I don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

Rob M

Use freeware with full editing of metadata:

http://www.xnview.com


That is a nice looking bit of software, but I will submit that it is
overly complicated for the intended useage. IrfanView, on the other
hand, handily replaces Window's native viewer, which is a piece of
crap, and by hitting the space bar to advance between images and then
alt + i + i + i (literally, hold down the alt and hit the i key three
times) one can easily and quickly access the IPTC content; further,
one can add comments (alt + i + i + c) and apply them to a whole set
of images. Finally, though xnview does allow some editing of exif, as
far as I can see you can only edit the time and date. I am biased in
so far that I feel every photographer (or anyone working with lots of
images) should have IrfanView on their windows system to facilitate
their image workflow.

In article , John
McWilliams wrote:

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article , Rob M
wrote:

I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available.
I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

I'd normally recommend Aperture, but it appears as if you are Win based
from your headers, so...

If you're comfortable with a command line, you can use ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Lightroom from Adobe will also allow some [limited] metadata to be
added, and can export directly to the jpegs.

What is the limitation on metadata that Lightroom can add?

About the only thing I could find that I could add was keywords. All
the EXIF that was originally with the photo was retained, of course,
but I never could find a way to add anything else other than keywords.
that may be changed in the release version.

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

Rob M wrote:
I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

What sort of metadata? Batching your name on or titles & annotation?

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available. I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article , John
McWilliams wrote:

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article , Rob M
wrote:

I need to find some software that allows me to add metadata in the files I
create prior to uploading images as jpegs to a stock library.

I shoot on a Canon, and have Zoombrowser or Raw Shooter Premium available.
I
don't use Photoshop

Is there an piece of software that will achieve this?
I'd normally recommend Aperture, but it appears as if you are Win based
from your headers, so...

If you're comfortable with a command line, you can use ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Lightroom from Adobe will also allow some [limited] metadata to be
added, and can export directly to the jpegs.
What is the limitation on metadata that Lightroom can add?

About the only thing I could find that I could add was keywords. All
the EXIF that was originally with the photo was retained, of course,
but I never could find a way to add anything else other than keywords.
that may be changed in the release version.

Beta 4.1 allows you to make custom metadata templates, for one, so that
everything you want can be added on first import.

--
John McWilliams