It’s a New Year. Update your metadata presets!
Having useful metadata associated with your images makes a lot of things simpler.
Tag: metadata
Importing into Lightroom: Follow the arc!
A fundamental part of any photographer’s workflow should be how they organise and file their photos. Lightroom (OK, the proper name is “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”) provides a great framework to integrate this into your workflow, but it’s imperative that you understand what’s going on. Too many Lightroom beginners try to …
Setting the time on Canon cameras
With the recent end of Daylight Savings time here, I took the opportunity to check the time in all my devices and get them set as accurately as possible. As I noted in my Daylight Savings again! post, for a long time I’ve used Canon’s EOS Utility to set the …
To DNG or not to DNG?
Many times I’ve been asked by students and workshop attendees whether they should be converting their RAW photo files to Adobe’s DNG format. There are various pros and cons to this issue, so I’ll do my best to list them here along with where I’ve ended up on the issue. …
Naming things
I’m not writing here about physical “things” (although sensible names there are important too!). I’m referring to the names we give objects in our digital image processing tools. Not so much the names of image files, but rather things like software presets/templates, actions, layers, etc. My fundamental guideline: Names should …
Metadata Field Guide
Over a year ago I posted an item titled Sensible Metadata Captions. talking about the use (and mis-use) of the image metadata fields such as Title, Headline, and Caption. A new resource that might be useful is the Metadata Field Guide from photometadata.org. If you’re dealing with image metadata (and …
Sensible metadata captions
As photographers build up larger and larger collections of images, having systems and software to organise and track them becomes essential. Whether you use Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture, iView MediaPro, Microsoft Expression Media, Extensis Portfolio, iMatch, or a combination of these and other management software, the metadata …