Embedding title or comments into photo?

I know Iphoto won't do this, but is there another program that will take the metadata (title or comments) and embed them into the picture (render them into the picture)?
Gallerie will do a static line of text, but not the comments.
anybody know another way, even as part of a web gallery creator?
Lenny

Lenny:
There is no application that will automatically take the comments and add them to the image. iWatermark, as recommended by clintbradford, can add text but you'll have to add it for each file individually. Any 3rd party image editor with text capabilities can do it. If you expect to get into a lot of advanced editing you might consider Photoshop Elements for Mac. About 80% of Photoshops capabilities at 1/7 the price.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Entering comments into photos

why, which iPhone's keyboard, can I not enter comments into my photo's taken on my iPhone - there might be something I really would like to say about the picture that I might forget if I don't get it down.

Hamper wrote:
I think it would be better to discuss the idea and then have the final thoughts posted. But, like I said, I'll post the idea to them - they should have done it anyway.
Agreed, though thats not what Apple has set this forum up for. For right now, all you can do it put in suggestion in.
Keep in mind that the DEV team does have their own agenda to follow. Whether or not they include a feature has little to do with our suggestions and more to do with what they are told to include.

Picture title and comment into iDVD?

I imported and album that contained commemt information to iDVD. The comments do not appear in the slide editing window. Must I manually reenter them? Or did I not select some option somewhere? Thanks.

Click "settings" in the lower right and then you will need to address this dialog box (on your own slideshow):
By sdmacuser at 2007-08-23

Copying photos to cd and still having my title and comments

I am a new i photo user. I am very anal about tagging each photo as to who and where. I used a microsoft product that let me place it directly into the photo. I realize this can not be done in i photo. Which is a shame. But my questions are these. I made albums from my library and changed all of the titles and comments to who and where.
1. If I write a cd using the i photo format will my albums be as I made them tagged with all of my info and in that order ?
2. If I write a cd using the format for viewing on a pc will all my info be there too.
( I did write using this format already and there is no rhyme or reason to there order. )
3. Is there a program that I can put words on the photo that does not cost a fortune and is easy to use.
I guess I worry about not being able to view them someday and want them backed up both ways.
Thanks for your help.
Heidi

Heidi
1. If I write a cd using the i photo format will my albums be as I made them tagged with all of my info and in that order ?
Using 'Share -> Burn, yes you will get the Albums and tags etc when viewed in iPhoto. That is, insert the disk to a Mac and iPhoto will open and the disk will appear in the Source Pne.
2. If I write a cd using the format for viewing on a pc will all my info be there too.
No. If you use the File -> Export command you can use your titles as filenames, or one of the other naming schemes. Then complete the export to a folder on the desktop and burn that with the Finder. Result: A disk with a folder of images that any machine can understand.
( I did write using this format already and there is no rhyme or reason to there order. )
Alphanumeric is the usual way things are burned in the Finder.
3. Is there a program that I can put words on the photo that does not cost a fortune and is easy to use.
Some possibilities from free on up:
Seashore
Acorn
Graphic Coverter
Photoshop Elements
Some comments:
If you upgrade to iPhoto 7 (part of iLife 08) you have the option to write your titles and keywords to the files on Export. This, along with non-destructive editing, makes it worth the price of the upgrade, for my money.
No matter what, even if you put a CD burned using the Share -> Burn into a PC you will be able to find the files: there're in iPhoto Library Folder / Originals
Regards
TD

IDVD problem with "Show title and comments"

I am making a DVD for a neighbor. He has given me CDs with scanned old slides. He has over 1000 photos.
I've got the DVD made in iDVD and everything is fine except in one of the slideshows.
In iPhoto I have 22 albums of photos. When I'm in iDVD I go to "media" and I drag an album into the theme. After it is there I drag another album into that album I just drug. So what I'm doing is combining 2 albums into one slideshow thus having 11 slideshows in my theme. I then go into each slideshow while in iDVD and add music and go to "settings" and unclick "Show title and comments".
After I have completed this for all slideshows I watch each slideshow before burning and everything looks fine. After the DVD burns (which takes 5 hours) I again watch the DVD on my television. In the first slideshow, and only the first slideshow, the first half is fine and then when it comes to the pictures that were in the second iPhoto album that I drug in the titles of each photo are coming up on the screen. All of the other 10 slideshows that I combined are just fine.
I pitched the first DVD and tried to fix this by going into iPhoto and making a separate album that had all the pictures of thos first two initial albums. I then went into iDVD, deleted that problem slideshow and then added the slideshow that I had combined all the photos into that one album. I again make adjustment adding music and going into "settings" and unclick "Show title and comments". I watch the slideshow while in iDVD and everything looks fine.
I burn another DVD and when I watch it on my television again that first slideshow has the first half of the pictures just fine and then the second half are showing the titles of each photo on the screen.
Everything else in the DVD looks fine.
The only other thing that might be of importance is when the DVD is ejected from the burner the screen says:
"Current Operation"
"Image Incomplete"
I click Cancel and then it says:
"Cleaning Up"
"Image Incomplete"
I again click Cancel.
At this point iDVD freezes and I have to go up under the Apple symbol and do a Force Quit.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I know I should try to make 2 DVDs out of all these photos instead of 1 but my neighbor was really hoping he could have all of them on 1.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Just drag them from the iPhoto Trash bin onto the Library icon just above it.
OT

IPhoto "titles" and "comments"

Hey,
I am making a slideshow in iDVD with a lot of pictures that im importing from iPhoto. My problem is that the names of the pictures (when I show "titles and comments") are too large and cover important parts of the image. I also noticed that the "comments" was smaller than the "titles". So is there a way for Automater to replace all the "comment" sections with what is in the "title" section for all my pictures in iPhoto? I have never used Automater so any help would be great.
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Create a workflow with a "Run AppleScript" action and replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the following AppleScript. The easiest way to do that is to click on the link, which will open AppleScript Script Editor, and then copy and paste it into the "Run AppleScript" action.
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click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "iPhoto"
set theAlbum to selection
set thePhotos to every photo of first item of theAlbum
repeat with aPhoto in thePhotos
set theOldTitle to title of aPhoto
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end repeat
end tell
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Captions embedded in PSE 8 organiser photos

Captions embedded in PSE 8 organsier photos using the 'write key word and tag and properties into photo' are not visible in Windows Photo Viewer. How do I have Captions visible regardless of which Photo app I am viewing my Albums in?
Shoopa

I don’t think the photo viewer is designed to display captions. Windows Live Photo Gallery does have support for captions. However, the embedded captions will show up in the folder details but you may have to enable columns for Title or Subject.
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Keywords, Titles, and Comments don't travel - Sharing Pics with my PC

What gives with iPhoto. Love it. Problem though. All the work I've put into adding key words, titles, and comments are only good in iPhoto.
Why is this? Wouldn't those things be considered metadata and be stored in the file and then travel with that file?
So... here's the kicker. If iPhoto doesn't do this - I probably need to switch programs. My house and family and work are all PC environments. We all swap photos pretty regularly.
I look like I suck if my photos are all titled DSC-09874. This especially ***** if I know I've spent hours upon hours applying tagging pics with keywords and comments - only to find out I'm the only person to ever see them.
I need some direction here from some iphoto gurus. What should I do?

There is a program that will do it but it's a bit expensive for just that feature, iView MediaPro. However, you can use it is its 21 day demo mode do write the keywords and comments of the photos you have today back to the original files (not the modified but the original). Tutorial #1 describes how to do that.
I suggest you post that as a feature request at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. The more requests for that the better.
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Can you drag and drop folder names into Photos like iPhoto?

I use to be able to drag folder of pictures into the sidebar of iPhoto and it would import the photos and put them in a folder with the exact name as the folder on my desktop. Photos does not seem to have th same feature. Does anyone know if this should be working?

No because there are no Events in Photos. A folder of images can be added to an album already in Photos. But the photos will be located in the Moments that represent the date each photo was taken.
If you import a folder into Photos you can go to the Last Import smart album, select all of the photos there and create a new album with them in it.
Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.
When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there was a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.
There's a way to simulate events in Photos.
When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder
When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.
The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.
Ask Apple for more sorting options in Photos and any missing features you'd like to see restored via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

Titles and Comments

Can Titles and Comments go with the photo from iPhoto when the photo is moved to another Library, put on a CD or DVD, emailed or used in Pages?

Johin:
To add to Smtr's answer, all metadata added to a photo in iPhoto stays in iPhoto (sort of like Las Vegas). Using iPLM you can transfer that data between libraries. But for any use outside of iPhoto the metadata won't be available.
There's one way to write comments and keywords to the original files on a one time (or 30 day) basis. That's by using Cocktail (not called Expressions Media) to catalog and then write that data back to the files. Check out Tutorial #1 on how to do it.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

[svn] 658: Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.

Revision: 658
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-02-26 11:28:16 -0800 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008)
Log Message:
Fix SDK-14201: Performance: embedded images are written into the swf one byte at a time.
This changes the way swfs are written out when they contain embedded lossless images,
such as PNGs and GIFs. The old code had a loop to write a byte at a time; the new code
does a single biblt. The result is a modest compilation speedup, on the order of
several hundred milliseconds when compiling Flexstore.
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14201
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java

Thanks John,
I've downloaded the exif tool + the gui - I can see how it's meant to work and have successfully processed a single file (even when I got the name wrong it still copied exif time data!)
I'll investigate further on how to do a batch and use command line
Really appreciate your prompt response to my problem.
I will let you all know how I get on - will take quite a few weeks but I am confident I can get there!
Thanks Mike
A week later I've now got back into this. I used the exif gui tool - which was very simple to use once I sat down with peace and quiet for 10 mins! I successfully copied and updated the correct exif data including capture time from the original backup files. My metadata keywords remained untouched when I then updated the metadata setting from disk in lightroom.
exif is a great tool, and I found it easier to use than AM pro - I couldn't see the photo attributes in the trial download so made it hard to sort by date.
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Afraid not. You will need something to convert those comments into standard photo metadata like Exif or IPTC.
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Import iPhotos Events into Photos and maintain previous structure?

I'm a long time iPhoto user and have about 45,000 photos from over a 30 year period that are organized into separate events with the event title being Year-Month-Activity. Such as "2015-4 Easter". It was painful to create those events but once they were done it was fantastic. We can quickly and easily pull-up all photos from my daughter's first birthday from 25 years ago, or look at all of her birthday photos. I probably have a thousand events and want to maintain that event structure when I move the library to any new photo program.
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Moments in Photo are the new Events. There's a way to simulate events in Photos.
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When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder
When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.
The downside to the simulation is that the Album/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can be sorted manually.
Ask Apple for more sorting options and/or other features in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

Print & Preview of iBook does not show titles and comments.

iphoto used is 6.0.6 (322) I Don't know if this is a 10.4.11 or 10.4.4 problem.
problem: iBook prints contain pictures but not title or comments using Epson C60 or HP 1530 printers. Titles and comments are not visible in "preview" but picture is ok. Mac used is an intel Core Duo with system 10.4.4.
However, prints are ok, i.e., have title, comment, picture using the same HP 1530 or an Epson Stylus Photo 1250 on a Pwr PC G4 with system 10.4.11.
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problem: iBook prints contain pictures but not title or comments using Epson C60 or HP 1530 printers. Titles and comments are not visible in "preview" but picture is ok. Mac used is an intel Core Duo with system 10.4.4.
However, prints are ok, i.e., have title, comment, picture using the same HP 1530 or an Epson Stylus Photo 1250 on a Pwr PC G4 with system 10.4.11.
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