So, we can use it to read or edit metadata to a photo that already has some – as long as we’re careful. The first difference between the two editors is that the IPTC editor can read existing metadata. There’s some powerful stuff here we should know about.
We’d like to shave a few seconds off the time we spend on each image’s metadata. We’ll circle back to this.)īut, over years, we’re going to have to do this a few tens of thousands of times.
XMP file format with the “Load” and “Save” buttons. Or we could import or export templates in. That button loads whatever is active in the template editor. (We could also load a template by clicking the “Apply Metadata Template” button. Next, we fill in the caption, maybe add some keywords, do whatever else we need to do, and click “OK”. We now load our standing template by clicking the Snapshot button (lightning bolt icon) and choosing our template from the list. This is great for seeing what you are doing while writing a caption. By clicking on the small preview in the IPTC editor, you can see a fairly large preview. If we click on it and hold, a reasonably-sized preview opens. There is a small preview of the image in the corner of the editor. We can do this from the thumbnail or the preview. We click the “i” button for our image, or we press the “i” key on the keyboard, and the Editor opens. The “one at a time” Metadata (IPTC) Info dialog in Photo Mechanic. If we have just created an image, let’s say we edited in Photoshop and did a save-as, and we want to caption it, the IPTC Editor provides a pretty straightforward workflow. Need a general-purpose How-To on working with metadata in Photo Mechanic? This post and this video might help. (Let’s call it here the “IPTC Editor”.)įor a deep dive, try the video version of this post: Now, you can live a happy life using only Metadata (IPTC) Info. And it is the way to do a whole bunch of other stuff. While it sounds clear enough, it’s not really terribly descriptive. “Metadata (IPTC) Template” may not be exactly an ideal name, either. With the release of Photo Mechanic 6, the name was changed. “Stationery Pad” may not have been the best ever name. Photo Mechanic used to call the Metadata (IPTC) Template dialog the “Stationery Pad”. What’s the difference? When should we use one or the other? Let’s look at both editors in some depth to see when – and how – to use each. Photo Mechanic has two, count ‘en two, big fancy metadata editor dialogs – Metadata (IPTC) Info and Metadata (IPTC) Template. Which of Photo Mechanic’s two IPTC editors should you use and when? When do we use the Metadata (IPTC) Info editor In Photo Mechanic and when do we use the Metadata (IPTC) Template editor? This post attempts to find an answer.
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