JLB; I like your idea. However, what happens with the IPTC standardized information when the photo is printed and mailed? Is this information embedded in the JPEG, especially when copied to a CD? Just curious. Enjoy the search! Thayne JLB wrote: > If you want to add a caption under a photo that would, of course, > require making a space that would alter the size of the photo overall. > The alternative is to embed information, using IPTC, a standard set by > the International Press Telecommunications Council. You will find this > under File/File Info in Adobe Elements, and various other editors and > viewers. It will also accept other information such as keywords and > copyright notices. Adobe Elements will work with psd's, tiff's and > jpg's. The compatible file-types depend on the software. Most commonly > only jpg's. Sometimes jpg's and tiff's. > > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html <snip>

Well, of course printing a photo is killing any digital components, of which IPTC would be one. But then for printing you have other options such as writing on the back or underneath in an album. IPTC is the equivalent of writing on the back of digital pictures. And yes, it's embedded information and it's not going anywhere except in a couple of freak cases. One is emailing pictures using Windows. For some darn reason Windows considers IPTC irrelevant and strips it out when you email pictures. Writing to CD should be 100% fine. Various photo viewers handle IPTC differently. XnView reads IPTC on jpg's, tiff's and psd's but only writes it to jpg's. FastStone Viewer doesn't deal with it at all, so if you do resizing and renaming of photos with IPTC info there it will strip it out. Picasa reads IPTC captions and keywords on jpg's (and maybe tiff's?) It takes some experimenting around with the smaller programs. There are programs that are more mature with their options. Adobe is one, Photo Mechanic is another. ACDSee Pro Photo Manager also. I use MediaDex as it handles IPTC organization of other types of files besides photographs. I believe you can print photos from MediaDex that show the IPTC information underneath. I so seldom print to paper I'm not sure, but I do print to pdf alot and I know it's possible there, so I think paper would be the same. If you go over to my website I've written several articles on the subject. Peruse the index or use the Search box for 'IPTC'. JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html tcurtisGen wrote: > JLB; > I like your idea. However, what happens with the IPTC standardized > information when the photo is printed and mailed? Is this information > embedded in the JPEG, especially when copied to a CD? Just curious. > > Enjoy the search! > Thayne > > JLB wrote: > >> If you want to add a caption under a photo that would, of course, >> require making a space that would alter the size of the photo overall. >> The alternative is to embed information, using IPTC, a standard set by >> the International Press Telecommunications Council. You will find this >> under File/File Info in Adobe Elements, and various other editors and >> viewers. It will also accept other information such as keywords and >> copyright notices. Adobe Elements will work with psd's, tiff's and >> jpg's. The compatible file-types depend on the software. Most commonly >> only jpg's. Sometimes jpg's and tiff's. >> >> JL >> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >> http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html >> > <snip> > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I misspoke somewhat about Windows. It only strips out the IPTC if you allow Windows to resize your pictures when you email them. If you mail them at their original size it leaves the IPTC intact. JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html JLB wrote: > Well, of course printing a photo is killing any digital components, of > which IPTC would be one. But then for printing you have other options > such as writing on the back or underneath in an album. IPTC is the > equivalent of writing on the back of digital pictures. And yes, it's > embedded information and it's not going anywhere except in a couple of > freak cases. One is emailing pictures using Windows. For some darn > reason Windows considers IPTC irrelevant and strips it out when you > email pictures. Writing to CD should be 100% fine. Various photo > viewers handle IPTC differently. XnView reads IPTC on jpg's, tiff's and > psd's but only writes it to jpg's. FastStone Viewer doesn't deal with > it at all, so if you do resizing and renaming of photos with IPTC info > there it will strip it out. Picasa reads IPTC captions and keywords on > jpg's (and maybe tiff's?) It takes some experimenting around with the > smaller programs. There are programs that are more mature with their > options. Adobe is one, Photo Mechanic is another. ACDSee Pro Photo > Manager also. I use MediaDex as it handles IPTC organization of other > types of files besides photographs. I believe you can print photos from > MediaDex that show the IPTC information underneath. I so seldom print > to paper I'm not sure, but I do print to pdf alot and I know it's > possible there, so I think paper would be the same. If you go over to > my website I've written several articles on the subject. Peruse the > index or use the Search box for 'IPTC'. > > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html > > tcurtisGen wrote: > >> JLB; >> I like your idea. However, what happens with the IPTC standardized >> information when the photo is printed and mailed? Is this information >> embedded in the JPEG, especially when copied to a CD? Just curious. >> >> Enjoy the search! >> Thayne >> >> JLB wrote: >> >> >>> If you want to add a caption under a photo that would, of course, >>> require making a space that would alter the size of the photo overall. >>> The alternative is to embed information, using IPTC, a standard set by >>> the International Press Telecommunications Council. You will find this >>> under File/File Info in Adobe Elements, and various other editors and >>> viewers. It will also accept other information such as keywords and >>> copyright notices. Adobe Elements will work with psd's, tiff's and >>> jpg's. The compatible file-types depend on the software. Most commonly >>> only jpg's. Sometimes jpg's and tiff's. >>> >>> JL >>> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >>> http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html >>> >>> >> <snip> >> -------------------------------------- >> Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >