IPTC works mostly commonly with jpg's and tiff's. IPTC is information that stays with photos and is not going to disappear just because you burn them to a CD. There's 2 cases in which I've found it to disappear - one in allowing Windows to resize photos before emailing them. Windows (on XP for sure) doesn't know what IPTC is so it just kicks it out when resizing for email. The same can happen when making batch changes using FastStone, which again does not recognize IPTC so it throws it away. Otherwise it's pretty stable stuff used by professional photographs everywhere and slowly making its way into the lower worlds. I put together a summary of some software choices. http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/2008-03-26-iptc_summary.shtml -- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html tcurtisGen wrote: > Thanks Donna; > I appreciate your efforts. Don't worry about the time lag. I corrupted > the boot portion of my hard drive and it has taken some time to put back > together. > > OFF TOPIC: This is the reason we do backups. All I lost was time/effort. > No genealogical data was lost. Whew.... > > I have a better understanding Donna about how you are labeling the > images themselves and your naming convention for the filenames. I like > how you are placing notes about the scan. Neat. > > For increasing my canvas area to put in my text, I use 'Paint.Net'. It's > pretty cool software and best of all it's free. (Donations are > accepted.) I like how 'Paint.Net' scans right from my scanner/printer > and then let's me place the text at the bottom of the image and then do > all the adjusting I need to do. > > JL; Thanks for your input about IPTC. We all should probably use these > attributes more. I wonder though, when I copy the JPEG to a CD, what > happens to IPTC? Oh, and I agree with Donna about folks that don't use > computers much. My great uncle could care less about how I store the > image on my computer. He just wants to physically have a photo in his > hands and have it labeled. > > Another question JL. Does JPEG support the IPTC format or do I have to > use TIFF format? > > Marilyn; Thanks for your advice about adding underscores/dashes for the > spaces in filenames. I had not considered that some programs would not > be able to process spaces in the filename correctly. You have greatly > added to the discussion. And I agree totally with scanning the back of > the image if there is handwriting. > > Art; I use a replacement for Windows Explorer to do mass editing of > filenames and moving of files. This replacement program is called > ExplorerXP and was written by Nikolay Avrionov. Oh, and did I mention, > its free too. It is simple, yet powerful. > > Well, thanks to all for your input and advice. This is a such a great > forum and you'all are really wonderful! > >