Tips - Keywording
I'm going to give you some tips on ow to efficiently keyword your images and videos. Let's start off understanding what IPTC means:
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IPTC is the standard developed in the 1970's by the International Press Telecommunications Council. It was initially developed as a standard for exchanging information between news organizations and has evolved over time. Around 1994, Adobe Photoshop's "File Info" form enabled users to insert and edit IPTC metadata in digital image files and so it was adopted by stock photo agencies, and other publishing businesses outside of the news media.
This is a great tool for when you apply in multiple agencies. All the agencies I know accepted IPTC tagged images so it's really handy. You describe the photo (title, description and keywords) once and it will be read on all the agencies. You can "batch describe" the photos so that saves even more time. I usually use Adobe Bridge to describe the photos
Now, when you keyword an image, try to be as accurate as possible. For instance, when you are keywording the image below, check the do's and don'ts:
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Cattle; Highland Cattle; Bull; Mammal; Farm; Field; Grass; Livestock; Sunlight; Sunbeam |
Fur, Horn, Eyes, Tree, Sky, Cloud, Fat, Large |
Most websites require between 10 to 50 keywords. Avoid keyword spamming or adding irrelevant keywords, names, brands, et cetera...
Here is a list of programs that will let you keyword and describe images:
BR's EXIFextracter (Win)
"BR's EXIFextractor is a simple freeware tool that will extract the EXIF information from all JPG files in a directory and save the data in a CSV-file (Comma Separated Values)." Freeware.
DateTree (Mac)
"Organize files, movies or photos by date on Mac OS X. Copies your files into folders named by date. Reads dates that cameras store inside images (EXIF)."
EXIF Image Viewer and EXIF InfoTip (Win)
A simple image viewer for photos taken with digital cameras. It's capable of reading EXIF information embedded in photos as well as a little thumbnail. EXIF viewer also displays image histogram and features copying/moving and deleting of selected photos. Also available is EXIF InfoTip, a shell extension to display EXIF information in a tooltip in Windows Explorer. Both are freeware.
Exif Reader (Win)
This software analyzes JPEG files created by digital cameras and displays the shutter speed, flash condition, focal length, and other image information. Freeware.
Exifer for Windows
"Exifer is a nearly free software (postcard-ware) with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras. Because many image processing software destroys this metadata when saving such files, the idea was to create a backup of the metadata before editing it in any software, and then, after that to restore it back into the processed file."
EXIFread, EXIFren, and JPEGget (Win)
EXIFread is a C++ command line program to read the exif tags on JPEGs. EXIFren will rename your files to the date the picture was taken. JPEGget will extract the thumbnail JPEG hidden in your digital camera JPEG. Freeware with source code.
EXIFutils (Win/Mac/Linux)
"The EXIFutils are a set of command line utilities that extract, add, remove, copy, and replace EXIF data from JPEG and TIFF image files."
FotoTagger (Win)
"Cogitum FotoTagger is a picture annotation technology for embedding text into the picture itself and a set of tools built on it. Photo annotations are stored in FotoML format in SPIFF section of JPEG file."
Full Image Info (Win)
"Full Image Info is an easy to use program targeted to view and retrieve information about images and photos taken with digital cameras... Full Image Info can also provide detailed EXIF information about photos (model, exposure program, shutter speed value, aperture value, etc.), IPTC information and more." Shareware - US$20
iTag - Photo Tagging Software (Win)
ITag is a free tool that is designed to make editing of key IPTC fields of your digital photos very easy. The editable IPTC fields are Headline, Caption and Keywords (which effectively translates into title, description and tags). The IPTC data can be read by other software such as IrfanView and Flickr. (Freeware)
Jhead (Win/Mac/Linux)
Exif Jpeg header parser and thumbnail remover. A command line driven program to parse through Exif headers and extract the most important digital camera settings. The software is public domain.
Microsoft Photo Info (Win)
Microsoft Photo Info is a new software add-in for Microsoft Windows that allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Explorer (in Details view). (Freeware)
Namexif (Win)
"Namexif is a utility to automatically rename photos with the date they were shot... digital cameras have their own clock and write the date to each photos with a precision of a second. Since the date and time is recorded for each photos (provided it is an EXIF compliant digital camera), Namexif is able to rename these photos according to the date." Freeware.
Simple EXIF Viewer for Mac OS X
EXIF Viewer is a small Mac OS X application to display EXIF information in JPEG files coming from digital cameras. Freeware.
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