Smart Web Images
We’re starting to see some interesting new technologies for adding connected intelligence to images published on the web. It’s now possible to attach information and other links to images that
May 30, 2013
DST – Don’t Forget to reset your camera’s clock
If you live in the US, today is the start of Daylight Savings Time. In addition to your house clocks, make sure to set your the clock in your camera
March 13, 2011
Metadata Working Group Guidelines 2.0 released
The Metadata Working Group is an collaboration between companies in the imaging business, working to standardize the types and use of metadata. Founding members are Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Canon, Nokia
December 14, 2010
Filename to Title – a New DAMuseful script
Writing the filename into the IPTC title field is a really useful practice. It preserves the name in a place that’s accessible, and likely to survive any kind of renaming
July 29, 2010
IPTC panels out for CS3 and CS4
The IPTC released the new Extended Schema two years ago. Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 support the schema natively, but users of CS3 and CS4 can’t read the new fields.
July 23, 2010
Lightroom Plugin from Beardsworth – Syncomatic
New from John Beardsworth, a plug-in that lets you copy the metadata from one file to another one of the same name (From a JPEG to a NEF for instance).
July 7, 2010
Dr. Brown’s Captionmaker
In The DAM Book, I outline a very useful add-on to Photoshop – Dr. Brown’s Captionmaker. (Script available free here.) I helped Russell make this script, and find it to
July 5, 2010
New IPTC Panels in LR 3
One of the less-trumpeted features of the Lightroom 3 final release is the addition of the IPTC Extension to the metadata panel. These new metadata categories were approved nearly 2
June 14, 2010
Cool new IPTC Extended Panels on the way for CS3 and CS4
At the IPTC metadata meeting at CEPIC in Dublin, Michael Steidl announced the coming availability of new IPTC panels for Photoshop CS3 and CS4. Developed by Electric Lane, these scripts
June 13, 2010