CS5, IPTC core, only author is showing in content

Question

Metadata>IPTC core>creator, job title......>apply. Only the creator s name is showing in content, (as author) not the other items. Any clue why?
Thanks

Answer 1

First of all, where I am: Bridge, I opened up a folder, clicking on the
metadata tab gives a dark gray panel with the thumbnails listed on the left,
What you call the metadata tab I think is in fact the Metadata workspace?
(To my own opinion the Metadata workspace is very useless, but that aside)
My purpose: to make sure that the person on the other end of the mail gets the
captions. I figured out a good part of it , but not all.
In preferences, all the options are checked, so basically I can "write"
anything i want, but I only need title and author.
The preferences for Bridge metadata gives you option to check or uncheck but
that is only to see the lines that you check are visible in the metadata
panel. If you have the option 'hide empty fields' also checked (by default
on) the fields that have no info in it will not show.
But the IPTC in the file info is still having all this fields written to it.
I found out that if I write those (description and author) in Photoshop
file\info, they appear simultaneously in Bridge in both the the lighter gray
panel to the left, in the white fiels with the pencils, AND  next to the
thumbnails, in the dark gray panel.
Bridge just reflects the info you have filled in, only the main window of
the Metadata Workspace does show very little of the content and you are not
able to select what info you want to show next to the thumbs Hence my
'useless' qualification...)
The metadata panel itself however can be of great help for you. You can make
a template for the IPTC / file info. This can be done in both PS and Bridge.
For PS open File info and fill in the fields that you think will need the
same info for every file (your name address copyright etc ) and when done
click export.
For Bridge (where you can also open file info) you have the ability to use
the metadata panel. Top right of the panel is a small icon that provides you
a fly out menu. Here you can choose to create a template but also you can
choose to add a template (when having a template created).
This is a major time saver that let's you add the same info you want to add
to all your files in one go. Select the files you want to alter and choose
append metadata and click on the template you want to add.
Now the files need some time to save but all the data is there!
Having multiple files that need the same description/caption you only have
to select those files and in the editable fields in the metadata IPTC core
section you can write this once and they are written to all the selected
files when done.
Besides that Batch rename (tools/batch rename) let you create a really easy
to use naming convention with auto adding sequence number shot date and a
lot more options.
What is left for me to understand: if my data is embedded from file\info, and
to be more precise it should be file\info\save for web because it seems that a
different title in save for web prevails over file\info
Not sure I understand this, you mean the mobile SFW tab in file info? Or the
file after having used the save for web option to create a file for web??
I verify that the data is there, which means that I dont have to write
nothing anymore, so what is the purpose of the lighter gray panel with the
little pencils?
Those fields let you add custom info to the metadata if you should wish so.
Preferable you should fill in as much as possible in the IPTC using the
template.
Leaving you with only having to add a few fields with custom info that
changes per file/subject. Description, keywords, date created, City, state,
country are fields that can be read by many applications and also will be
used to search for files using phrases or keywords.
What is confusing, is that, and I rephrase the old question, if you write
creator in the IPTC core next to the little pencil, that will appear next to
the thmbnail in the dark gray panel, if the thumbnail is selected of course,
but the next item, job title will not appear, even if I click on apply at the
bottom of the pencils.
If this is still about the metadata workspace forget about it. If you fill
in that field or have filled it in using a template and it shows in the
metadata panel it is saved in there