Comments on: Understand and manage your image metadata

By: vlad

vlad — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:06:42 +0000

Brooke…there are a few options at least. I’m not sure exactly what software doesn’t perform the compression when adding metadata. You can try XnView which is free and has excellent metadata compatibility (both IPTC and XMP).

Another option would be PIE made by PicMeta which is a German program that is very lightweight and has excellent support for IPTC and XMP, but it doesn’t have much else…it’s a fast viewer with great metadata support.
PicMeta is not free, but it’s inexpensive and it will also do batch processing for image metadata…their site is http://www.picmeta.com and look for the PIE product.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:46:33 +0000

I mostly have .jpeg images in my personal collection but also have a fair amount of photoshop files & MS Office files. I am looking for user friendly D.A.M. software that will save the IPTC/XMP data to the file without subjecting it to another round of .jpeg compression. I would also like to have a captioning/description field and batching capabilities. What software options are there given the above criteria? I would prefer the software to recognize both IPTC & XMP if possible.

By: vlad

vlad — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:38:30 +0000

Mike…yes InfranView will work. Look for the Copyright field in the IPTC fields. This is the field intended for this use.
Check this link out: EXIF Fields.

Glad to hear you found my site helpful.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:51:49 +0000

Thanks, Vlad. Yah I wanted to add some data to images such as copyright information. Sounds like InfranView can help me with that.

Thanks!!

By: vlad

vlad — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:34 +0000

Mike…thanx for your comment. I’m not really sure what you mean by custom metadata. If you mean entering keywords then there are quite a few free programs that would help you to do that. A couple of my favorite free programs are IfranView, XnView and GeoSetter. They would allow you to edit the IPTC metadata that contains keywords.

Hope this helps.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:33:05 +0000

Are there any programs that will let you easily add cutom metadata to image?

I’m looking for a program that you open, select an image or images. Type in your custom data, and save it.
Thanks for any reply.
Mike