Adding keywords to the photo files

I know I can assign keywords in iPhoto, but they are not actually written to the photo file itself. I also know I can use iViewMedia Pro to "attach" the keywords to the files using Old Toad's tutorial.
I already have iViewMedia, but it's not the Pro version.
Can I use it to attach keywords, even though it's not the pro version, or do I have to use the pro version?
I just recently starting using keywords so I don't have too many and not too many of my photos have keywords assigned. I was reading a book on Tiger and saw that I could assign keywords with Preview. I don't guess this will allow me to assign keywords to multiple photos at one time. Does this attach the keywords to the file itself? and Will these keywords appear in iPhoto when the photo is imported?

Rayne:
iView Media does not have the capability of writing annotations back to the file. You can use iVMP in its demo mode to do that but it'll be essentially a one time (or 21 day) affair.
Preview will add keywords to the actual photo file which will be read by iPhoto when it is imported. If you add keywords after it's been imported with Preview iPhoto will not recognize them. It's a slow, tedious process with Preview, however.
Other than iVMP and Preview there are some applications, mostly professional, that can do that also. You'll just have to experiment.
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