Embedding Captions in Photos for Media

[C***@adobeforums.com]

I would like for someone to assist me asap with a problem of embedding my captions into my images that I email to my editor(Newspaper) Is there a an easier way of doing this without having him to put the captions in..sounds confusing.Could you respond to me as soon as possible.Thank you
Craig Goedecke

[G***@adobeforums.com]

Craig

Do this >File >File Info

Then type in your caption in the spot called Caption this creates a meta
file and you editor should be able to read this and it will not appear on
the image.

Grant

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Is there a specific format you have to use? When I think of "embedding captions", what comes to mind is having the caption directly below the image, which will then print out. Is that what you want to do? If so, increase the size of the image canvas by a half to three quarters of an inch, or whatever you feel you'll need through Image>Resize>Canvas Size, set the anchor option to top center (there are 9 choices), and then type the caption in the space below the image.

If this isn't what you want to do, could you please give us an example?

[W***@adobeforums.com]

Hi Grant,

Well I never knew that .... what is it all about and just what does it do?

Wendy

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Jodi,

It works fine in JPG. Just be sure to use >save as..., not >save for web.

Juergen

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well, this is what i was wondering. I wasn't sure if a publisher would be so interested in Jpeg format. Would this work in any non lossy format ? Just curious.

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Jodi,

It will save in psd and tiff. You can read it in >file info. I tried
IrfanView, it does not see it.

Juergen

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well that is cool but what format are we saving in for him to use this ?

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Juergen, I'm really glad I have this info...just in case ;)

[G***@adobeforums.com]

Sorry should have replied to this one and well mind went to mush

There are two forms of information stored as meta files in images that are
supported by Elements.

IPTC (International Press Telecommunication Council) This is intended as a
sort of reporters note pad.

EXIF (Exchangeable image file format) This is the photographers information
related to all the stuff related to the camera that took the image.

Grant

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Where can one access the EXIF data that is recorded? I notice in pbase that on some of the picture files there is an option to view EXIF,in others there is not. In Elements (I have v.1) on the left side of the task bar, when I left click I see recorded width, height, channel, and resolution only. I don't see shutter speed, f-stop, white balance, etc.
Ken

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Ken,

In PE2 I can see EXIF by:

File -> File Info

...then, at the top of the File Info display, change General to EXIF.

Also, using PE2 File Browser, the EXIF data is visible in the lower-left
pane.

I don't know if PE1 works the same way, though.

Byron

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Byron,
Thanks. I found it there. However, it does not list f-stop, shutter speed,or white balance. It does list camera make & model, resolution, EXIF software, date-time, and Exif/YCbCr positioning (whatever that means.) Until now I did't even know about this information access.
Ken

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The file browser also shows Exif in the lower left pane. Remember Exif is a constantly evolving standard and there is a chance that a new camera may have some Exif data that Elements does not read.

Rich

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The EXIF data is created by the digicam automatically and the IPTC must be created.
I have used Irfanview viewer, must load additional plug-in (available from the website - <http://www.irfanview.com)>.
You can view/edit either metadata if the plug-ins are installed (just download and drop the EXIF.dll and IPTC.dll into the Irfanview plug-in folder) Once installed the Image / Info screen displays EXIF IPTC button.

Another app I'm looking at is Pixvue at pixvue.com Freeware, try it out. Its ability to edit metadata was fine but I wasn't sure I liked the way it created folders/thumbnails, just try it.

A Google search on "IPTC editor" resulted in a number of leads.

I'm really interested in the scripting function(s), never tried before. I want to pull the metadata out of the file and put into an existing database.