250 AlbumPlus Organizer: Managing Photos
Understanding metadata
The main strength of modern photo albums comes in their support for various
metadata types, all intended to report the photo and file information that will
help identify your photo. Three of the most popular metadata formats,
EXchangeable Image File (EXIF), International Press Telecommunications
Council (IPTC) and the eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP), are supported
within AlbumPlus.
Assigning XMP-based tags, file information, ratings, and comments to a photo
means that your album contents can be distinguished from each other by
initiating simple searches for such metadata (see p. 262). Read-only EXIF and
IPTC metadata can also be viewed (see below) or searched for at any time.
If you've assigned metadata to a large number of photos and you then
attempt to close down AlbumPlus, you may encounter a dialog saying
AlbumPlus is currently busy. Select Yes to complete outstanding
"tagging" operations (a further progress bar is shown—use the Stop
button as a last resort!) or select No to return back to AlbumPlus.
Metadata types
XMP
XMP is an editable Adobe XML-based metadata format, now superseding IPTC,
where data is stored as "keywords" representing the photo's subject matter.
The tags you can assign to your photos from the Tags Pane are XMP-based—
you can create tag names and a tag structure that represents the photo contents
of your album (see Using the Tags pane on p. 245). Assigning photos to your
tags then becomes a simple drag-and-drop procedure.
You can also view and search XMP metadata and, in particular, modify
information such as the photo's descriptive Title, Subject, Authors, Copyright,
and Comments.
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