I want to add meta data descriptions of photos that can be read by any platform. Can I do this in iPhoto?

I know I can add descriptions, but I can't seem to get them to follow when I copy files outside of iPhoto.

To keep the metadata export the photos (file menu ==> export) checking the appripriate options during export
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How do I add a date stamp to photos

How do I add a date stamp to photos

Make the Type tool active and enter the text.
If you have several photos that you want to add the date to, in full editor, go to File>Process multiple files.
In the dialog under "Labels", select "Watermark" from the drop-down, enter text/date in text box, then set up the other fields.
It's best to have the picture files in a source folder & have an empty destination folder to point to in the batch process. This will preclude overwriting the originals. Look at the top "Process Files From".

Add a date on a photo

Please I want to help me.
It is important for me to add the date of a photo to be viewed on printing.
Or maybe if it is possible to put the date by myself like a word on the photo.
My camera is EOS 7D
Thanks in advance

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Changing meta data of a photo

Is there a way to alter the meta data of a photo taken with my digital camera and imoorted into iPhoto?
I took photos whilst in Singapore but forgot to change the time on my camera to Singapore time, GMT+8hrs. I also took some photos on my phone camera, which did have the correct time. Consequently, when I imported photos from both devices, the chronological order is messed up. I need to change the time data of the digital camera files to correct the sequence.

In iPhoto select the photos with the incorrect date/time and go to the photos menu ==> change date and time
give it the correct information for the first photo and it will automatically correct all of them to the correct date and time
You can select modify original photo if that is what you want
LN

HT1349 I have an ipod shuffle. Never had one before. A friend synced my shuffle to her ipod. I want to add the songs to my computer and make cd's. Any way to do this?

I have an ipod shuffle. Never had one before. A friend synced my shuffle to her ipod. I want to add the songs to my computer and make cd's. Any way to do this?

Apple specifically did not enable ipod to computer transfer so as to prevent people from getting music from friends (which in the majority of cases is illegal).

Since I started using Lion (10.7.2) I'm prompted to type my password if I want to add a folder or put something in the trash. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

Since I started using Lion (10.7.2) I'm prompted to type my password if I want to add a folder or put something in the trash. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

It sounds like the permissions on your Home folder are snarky.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
Restart Lion and hold down the Command and R keys.
You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen. On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.
In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return.
The Password reset utility launches, but you’re not going to reset the password. Instead, click on the icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top. From the drop-down below it, select the user account where you are having issues.
At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.
The reset process takes a couple of minutes. When it’s done, quit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac. Notice that ‘Spotlight’ starts re-indexing immediately.

I want to be able to access my photos that are stored on iCloud – I see mail and contacts but not my pictures? I have been backing up for a long time - Where are they?

I want to be able to access my photos that are stored on iCloud
– I see mail and contacts but not my pictures?
I have been backing up for a long
time - Where are they?

You can't view them on iCloud.com. And photos (and other data) stored in your device backup can't be viewed, other than by restoring the backup to your device.
If you want to view your photos on the web, for the time being you will have to add them to a shared stream (album) with the Public Website option enabled. This will give you a private url to view them from a browser.

How to upload large binary data to dB so it can be read by any app?

Hi everyone,
Short version: how do you upload binary data into a MySQL blob field in such a way that it can be read by any application?
Long version:
I've been struggling with the problem of putting files into database BLOB fields. (MySQL and Database Connectivity Toolkit).
I was initially building a query string and executing the query but was finding that certain binary characters were causing failures (end of string terminators, etc...) So, a working solution was to encode the binary string, and that worked fine, although bloated the dB a fair bit. I could decode in LabVIEW and then save the file as needed.
Now, the customer wants to be able to save the files using other apps, including the MySQL Query Browser, so an encoded file is no good.
I found using a parametrized query allows me to put the unencoded string into the dB, but it appends a 4-byte length at the front of the BLOB before it inserts it into the dB. Some apps ignore these 4-bytes (such as .pdf) but most do not.
A related thread on NI discussion forums: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=354361 has no solution, and my support ticket at NI has been ongoing without answer for a while.
Thanks,
Ben

The problem is the DCT. Using ADO it is fairly easy to insert binary data into a BLOB field. I have not tried it in MySQL, but it works fine in SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird and other free/open source databases I have tried. To get you started, see this thread.
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Rewriting "Save to" add meta data tag at time of save

What I am trying to achieve is this,
When I save a file at the moment I select Save As using the shortcut keys.
However I want to automatically add some meta data to the file every time. So I would write a simple action within photoshop.
So File info
then Description Tag
Author (me) and maybe Author title (photographer)
Then the next part of the script would be in invoke the "Save as" Command, BUT ITS IMPORTANT TO NOTE I DON'T WANT IT TO AUTOMATICALLY SAVE. it needs to jst put the prompt on the screen so that filename type etc can be filled in manually.
Then once the script is made I can assign the keystroke CMD Shift S to this script, hide the save as function in the keyboard shortcuts/ menu items.
Then every time I go to save it would add the meta tags I need as I work?
This is the sort of data I want to save,
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        var idByln = charIDToTypeID( "Byln" );
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Option to Add Meta Data to Web Page on V3 dashboard

Where is the option to add mata date in the V3 dashboard?

Title Tags & SEO
I worked fine for me but if you want to be sure you can put you own header information into the HTML in your page. I’m going to ramble on because other people may find this information useful
Things have change with search engines and the only thing that is important is your title information in the header and how you write it.
First let's talk about meta tags. Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide information about a web page for the search engines and website users.
Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of a HTML document. These elements are the:
Title Tag,
Description.
Keywords (No one uses these anymore and you can get spam "points" for overuse of keywords on Bing and Google, so just forget them. If you have keyword stuffed "spammy" ones, you probably want to fix those.)
For now it’s back to the basics with SEO! And nothing is more basically important to a site than properly written title tags. You know the ones that used to appear in the little blue bars in your browsers. Most modern browsers try to conceal these, though that doesn't stop them being helpful!
So what is a title tag? Why is it important to SEO, and how do you write the darn things?
A title tag is THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE TAG in your page. It tells the search engines what your page is about. It is still vitally important to paid or organic SEO strategy.
Think of title tags like the title of the chapter of a book. It tells people and search engines what your page is about.
Title tags are also part of what makes people decide whether to visit your site when it shows up in the search results. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.
NOTE: Every experienced SEO has their own unique methods to doing this, so I'm going to give you best practices along with some of my methods
When you do a search on Google, the information that shows up is in the title tag so you need to write title tags for humans but format them for search engines.
Every page on your site has an opportunity to rank high on search engines for a particular keyword,
Quick Checklist
When you're writing your title tag what do you need to know? Here's a quick checklist with some tips on how to write optimized title tags:
Length: Title tags should be a maximum of 70 characters long, including spaces.
Keyword Placement: Your most important words (keywords) need to be first in your title tag, with your least important words being last in the title tag (most to least).
Keyword Separation: Use pipes | to separate important (keyword) phrases (no commas, underscores, dashes or any other punctuation unless the keyword is written that way).
Wording: Keep your important phrases short and simple. Leave out words that would make it read like a sentence. (e.g., and, if, but, then, etc.)
Company Name: If your company name is not part of the important (keyword) phrases, put it at the end of the title tag or leave it out. If it is part of your important words, put it as the first words in the title tag. Some SEOs will tell you to leave it out. You can leave it in for branding purposes – so people will see the brand and click. This isn't valid for all sites.
DON'T DUPLICATE Title Tags: They must be written differently for every page. Don't mass replicate your title tags.
Make It Relevant: Title tags must be written to be descriptive of the content on the page. (e.g., the About Page would be:
About | Important Keywords | Company Name
or
Important Keywords | About Us | Company Name.
Google & Title Tags
Sometimes Google doesn't like your title tag. In fact, sometimes Google thinks it can pick a better one, so it will rewrite the tag for you. There are several places it might get this information, most of them you won't prefer to one you crafted yourself.
While there isn't any assurance your title tag won't be replaced, make sure you write a title tag that is page related, content descriptive, short and sweet, and not keyword stuffed. This is your one defense.
Keyword Stuffed Title Tags
You've probably come across badly written title tags that try to rank for everything or repeat a word over and over. Keyword stuffing is the worst offense when it comes to title tags. (You will be penalize)
Say your site is trying to rank for Blue Bells and Yellow Bells. Many times you will see the main keyword repeated multiple times across the title tag. It might appear like this:
Blue Bells, Yellow Bells, All Types of Bells | Bells Bells and More | Doors.com
This is bad title tag writing. You don't need to repeatedly write the keyword. Google especially can pick up the keywords like your eyes can read them, so you would best to rewrite this as
Blue & Yellow Bells | Doorbells | Doors.com
We removed the extra words, combined the products (if possible you would split these products to separate pages, a blue and a yellow, but this isn't always feasible or desirable) and added a category keyword which would appear in the middle of the title tag on all doorbell related page titles, then end it with the domain name (again this is for branding purposes – there are also good reasons to not do this, it depends on the SEO).
Now our title tag is short, sweet, simple, and to the point. We have also categorized it and added in branding for good measure.
We also took out the word "and" and replaced it with an ampersand (&) so that you don't accidentally relate the two items and make Google think you want people who are looking for Blue AND Yellow Bells.
And there you go, a basic lesson in title tag writing. This can be the most challenging and fun part of any SEO's work! Or should that be "Inbound Marketer's" work?
Some Title Tag Writing Examples
Let's look at a few examples of writing title tags with actual examples.
If your important words (keywords) were "Charlie Sheen" and "Winning" your title tag would be written in that order:
Charlie Sheen Winning
Charlie Sheen would be the first words in the tag.
Now what if we had more than one set of words? What if my keywords were "Charlie Sheen Winning" and "Tiger's Blood"? Your title tag would still be written with "Charlie Sheen Winning" as the first words in the tag. Then you would add a pipe | and "Tiger's Blood" as the second phrase:
Charlie Sheen Winning | Tiger's Blood
Don't use hyphens, underscores, commas or any other type of character – just pipes.
Now what if we had more than one set of words and a company name we were not worried about optimizing for (the company name was not part of the reputation issue). If my words were "Charlie Sheen Winning" and "Tiger's Blood" and "CBS", you would separate these three phrases with pipes, with CBS last and farthest from the beginning, which Google sees as the least important phrase:
Charlie Sheen Winning | Tiger's Blood | CBS
The company name can be repeated in every title tag as long as it as not part of the important words and appears at the far right end of the title tag.
What about sentences? Couldn't you just write a sentence such as "Charlie Sheen Says Winning And Tiger's Blood And Gets CBS Riled Up"? You could, but those extra words like "says", "and", and "riled", dilute your important words and make them less important to content, so best to keep it short, simple, and clear. Leave out the extra words.
Once you’re finish with all of this its time to submit you pages to the search engines. You will need to create an XML & HTML sitemap.
WebAssist Surveyor – Build and submit HTML and XML sitemaps in Dreamweaver
http://www.justdreamweaver.com/blog/2008/07/webassist-surveyor-build-html-and-xml-sitemaps -in-dreamweaver/
Don’t forget to check each page ranking monthly and make the necessary tweaks to your title information as needed. (Each page needs to rank for a unique key word on your site)
I’m going to stop now but that’s only the start of organic search engine optimization.

How to Add Meta Search Description & Keywords in Flex3

How to add meta search data & key words for the page in flex3.
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Content is what you add to your page. The visible part your visitors can see.
Keywords have to be added with [a META tag in the HEAD|http://www.google.com/search?q=meta%20tag%20head] of the webpage. That cannot be done in iWeb. You have to edit the published pages with a HTML Editor of your choice.
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Provide good content.

How do I add simple text to a photo? For example, if I took a photo of a chalk board and wanted to add a date via Lightroom making it look like it was written on the chalk board, how would I do that?

I simply need to know how to do this. Everything online talks about doing this as a watermark feature or during Export only. I need to know how to do this during the Develop stage, if it's possible.
I took a photo of a couple for a pregnancy announcement shoot. We added a chalk board that had the date the birth is to take place written on it, but it didn't show as well when I reviewed the first couple pics. So I erased the chalk board thinking that I could just add the date via Lightroom, but I have been unable to figure it out. Any help would be very much appreciated.

To create a graphic watermark or identity plate for this purpose with a hand written chalk look you would need Photoshop or Elements to create a transparent PNG file so you might as well do the whole thing in one of those programs to start with. You can't do this in the develop stage anyway like you requested.

Best Practice for attaching Meta Data, Organizing & Archiving Photos

I am about to start the daunting task of organizing and archiving ALL of my photos so that I can access them from an external hard drive (or two) when I need them. I want to know/understand the best way to do this before I start so that thousands of hours later I don't realize that I have not considered something critical. I have already spent hours trying to find this information online to no satisfactory avail. I have both iPhoto ('09 v8.1.2) and Aperture 3, which I am just learning to use. I am wanting to back up to my WD My Book. I have already transferred some pictures and realized that, though I had them nicely organized in Albums in iPhoto, that information doesn't transfer over to the My Book so the file names are unrecognizable as any type of descriptor. I believe that I need to assign some Meta Data (?) to each photo so that I can do searches to find particular people or subjects when needed.
Here are all of the things I want/need to know:
1. Which Mac program would be best to accomplish attaching MetaData or adjusting file names: iPhoto or Aperture 3?
2. What is the best way to attach MetaData to pictures so that the information is permanent? Tagging (allowing multiple search options)? Batch Name Change (allowing limited search capabilities)? Other?
a. If I TAG all of my photos and then try to use that information outside of iPhoto or Aperture 3 (from the external HD) will it still be accessible for searches?
3. After attaching all of this information, what do I need to know about transferring the photos to an external HD? Are there multiple copies of the same photo (original, edited) and if so, are both transferred? Are they both deleted when I move the pictures to the trash?
4. Is there anything else that I need to know??
Your expertise would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

You are trying to defeat the photo management of iPhoto - My suggestion is to learn iPhoto and use it of choose another program - iPhoto does not work well unless it manages the entire library and you access it using the tools build into the OS - click here for a discussion on the many correct and safe ways to access your iPhoto library photos.
Aperture may or may not be a better choice - try the Aperture forum for detailed info
Backing up iPhoto is trivial - simply drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to another hard drive - or use an incremental backup program to do it as changes are made - I use Time Machine to one backup drive and SuperDuper to another
I believe that I need to assign some Meta Data (?) to each photo so that I can do searches to find particular people or subjects when needed.
This is an integral part of iPhoto and one of its strengths
1. Which Mac program would be best to accomplish attaching MetaData or adjusting file names: iPhoto or Aperture 3?
iPhoto does a great job of this - file names are only adjusted when you export - and there is no need for them to be adjusted within the iPhoto library since you never should be going into it directly and never need to see the files directly
2. What is the best way to attach MetaData to pictures so that the information is permanent?
Exporting from iPhoto
Tagging (allowing multiple search options)?
Using iPhoto and the OS tools
Batch Name Change (allowing limited search capabilities)?
Done during export if desired
Other?
Depends
a. If I TAG all of my photos and then try to use that information outside of iPhoto or Aperture 3 (from the external HD) will it still be accessible for searches?
In iPhoto yes so long as you are not going directly into the iPhoto library but are using the provided tools
3. After attaching all of this information, what do I need to know about transferring the photos to an external HD?
Simply drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the EHD - the database is a single entity and it will be the same there (so long as the EHD is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
Are there multiple copies of the same photo (original, edited) and if so, are both transferred?
Yes - Yes
Are they both deleted when I move the pictures to the trash?
You do not move photos to the trash - you select them in iPhoto and press the delete key then empty the iPhoto trash (iPhoto menu ==> empty iPhoto trash)
4. Is there anything else that I need to know??
Lots - if you are going to use iPhoto stop thinking of managing files and start thinking of using a SQL database which is what iPhoto is -- otherwise you need to use a different program
LN

How to add IPTC data to multiple photos w/o overwriting other data?

I need to see if there's a way to add IPTC data to one or more fields to mulitple photos without disturbing the other fields' data that's already there. For example, I've keyworded & captioned my images, but now would like to add the City or the Country to all the shots, or a group of shots.
Conventional Lift & Stamp will override the keyword & caption field info on the stamped images, which I don't want. How to I lift & stamp other select fields? I sure don't want to have to type in the city or country on hundreds/thousands of images!
Randy
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Thanks for the reply.
In the Lift & Stamp HUD, under the IPTC heading,
there's no way to de-select the sub-categories of
Caption & Kepyword, leaving just State (or other
fields which don't seem to be even present). One can
de-select the major categories of Keywords, Caption,
IPTC, etc. but not the subcategories. This is the
problem I'm running into -- no way to just add
additional data in select fields.
Unless I'm missing something.
Indeed! Aperture does not make this at all obvious, but with any line highlighted in the Lift & Stamp HUD just hit the "delete" key and that line is gone. If you delete a category (line with a checkbox) the whole category goes, if you expand a category you can delete individual lines, whatever you like. Also very handy for adjustment stamping when you don't want to stamp a clone job, just white balance.
It remembers what you have removed until you do another Lift.

I want to have the date on my photos.

I have been taking photos of an abused pony. The owner will be prosecuted and hopefully my photos will be used as evidence in court against the owner.
I want my photos to have the date they were taken on them when I print them or put them on a disk. I noticed that when I exported them to a folder on the desktop, they only had the date I exported them rather than took them.
How can I do this? I cannot find anything on iPhoto that will put the date onto the photo or anything in my camera. Get Info in iPhoto will tell you when the photo was taken but does not let you have a date on the actual photo.
Any ideas. If I succeed, this could make all the difference. I suppose I could drag my iMac to Court if required!!!
I tried looking on my camera but it won't help either - Canon S2 IS.
Thanks
Francesx

Frances
Putting the date onto a pic is the business of the camera, there is no way to do it in iPhoto.
When you export a pic, the Finder reports the date that the file was made - i.e the Export date. However, the date the photo was made is contained in the EXIF data that's exported as part of the metadata of the file. You can read the EXIF data with an app such as EXIF VIEWER from http://homepage.mac.com/aozer/EV/.
However, as the dates can be altered on a camera, as can the EXIF data, very easily, any saavy lawyer will be able to challenge the dates of the pics, if they're important. A better way to do it is, if you can, add something date specific into the shot when you take it - that day's newspaper, for instance. Or have someone prepared to testify to the dates and times of the pics.
Regards
TD

I want to add meta data descriptions of photos that can be read by any platform. Can I do this in iPhoto?

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