IPTC tags?

Does anyone know if the keywords are part of IPTC tags now, or are they still only within iPhoto?
Thanks,
"D"

I assume that this is still the case? Is there any way to petition Apple to start at least providing the option of providing standard IPTC metadata options in iPhoto and saving that information with the file in the standard way? They're doing it with Aperture, why not with iPhoto?

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IPTC tagging

Hi Folks
an acient user of PSE 6 and I have written IPTC tags to some 20000 plus photos - on re-loading pse6 Organiser I find the data is in the properties but I cannot use the find to pick up the vaiurous Tags and Albums - Abobe have been extremely helpful by stating 'up grade to our latest version (8) but fail to state if the function is missing in 6 and has been installed in 8 - it is there in 6 and I simply have failed to find it or it is not in 6 and not in 8 either.
Either way having catalogued over 20000 twice - the first time not saving via write key word before the year crash of windows xp I don't want to go through the process a third time
any suggeston would be appreciated
Jim Allen

Backing up XP would be a continuous process as with all microsoft programs,
something tried in the past and never found successful, since windows 3.1
Easier to keep the data separate from the programs on separate physical disc
then in theory you don't loose your data and you only spend time reloading
all the programs
Disagree, strenuously. If your separate physical disk crashes, then you have no data. Any disk can fail; having your data on a separate physical disk is not protection. If you value your data, regular backups are mandatory. These forums are filled with people's stories who have lost all their photos or the tags because they don't back up properly or regularly.
The problem is they are all meta tagged already, I just can't get at the
tags as a group in any function of Organiser
All the photos are backed up only the *.psa files are missing - from the
backup the *.tly file within the back up won't behave either..... so that
was a waste of time... surprise surprise - never have managed to
successfully retrieve backed up data.... in 20 plus years
Did you try the Organizer command File->Restore Backup? The .tly file can only be restored this way. "Won't behave" doesn't really explain anything.
Further what good is an organiser which can't pick up the meta tags, unless
it already knows about them before hand.....
Disagree, strenuously. The Organizer will pick up tags that are in the files prior to import.
I'm looking to build the catalogue from the meta tags themselves. While
I agree the tags would be powerful if I could actually pick them up. But a
program which restricts the user to what the programmer wants you to do as
opposed to what the photographer wants and the computer naturally does is
dare I say next to useless in the real world....
Disagree, strenuously. If the tags are in the file, the Organizer will pick them up on import. Are you sure the tags are in the file before you import them? If so, how did they get there? Can you see the tags using Windows or freeware Irfanview? Most people know when they put tags into files, so please explain. Furthermore, PSE does not restrict you. It provides a command that writes the tags and other metadata to the files themselves so this information can be communicated to other applications, and to the "real world". You have to specifically tell PSE to do this, it doesn't do it automatically, but that is not restricting you in any way. It just adds a step.
I'll have a look see if I can find a program more suited to my cataloguing
needs for If I half to re-sort 27,000 photos then I may as well get one
which is not reliant on a separate file to exist.
While your needs may not be suited to PSE, everything you have said indicates that you haven't used PSE effectively, and that PSE actually does meet all your needs.

IPTC tag names used for text output in BorderFX export

Does anyone have a reference list? Nothing is documented or forthcoming on the BorderFX site. For example, I have a photo with IPTC entries on the Aperture metadata/aka info tab under the Image section for both City and Location. BorderFX has a built-in tag for "City" and that works fine. There is an implied capability to add fields to the list, but there I am stymied. There is no existing entry for Location. I tried "Location", "Image location", ImageLocation", "Sub Location", Sub-location", etc. without success. I tried using the names from the IPTC document referenced in earlier questions. I delved into the tags used by AppleScript to no avail. I might have to delve into the Aperture SDK, but I have not yet done much with XCode. Or, perhaps simply there is no capability to use additional tags despite the appearances in the plug-in.

Bruce, what is your BorderFX version?
Have a look at this post from Reinhard Uebel: He confirmed that BorderFX is not working for text in the latest version and announced that a new version will soon be available: See
Re: Aperture crashed twice today. Comments?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22308358?ac_cid=tw123456#22308358
Regards
Léonie

Lightroom and IPTC / Tag character set

I'm using TWG for my personal gallery. This tool accepts UTF-8 as character set.
I've still not found any way to display properly my French or Portuguese accented or special characters coming from Lightroom (IPTC fields and Tags as well).
Any tip ? Lightroom setting (to write in UTF-8) ? Post-treatment (to convert into UTF-8) ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Best regards
Philippe

This code below should work. Is this what you tried?
CreateMetaFontWithCharacterSet ("ansiMetaFont", VAL_DIALOG_META_FONT, 11, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
VAL_ANSI_CHARSET);
SetPlotAttribute (panelHandle, PANEL_GRAPH, plotid, ATTR_PLOT_LG_FONT, "ansiMetaFont");
Luis

IPTC - Tags & Keywords

I am planning to switch from PhaseOne/MediaPro (MP) to Adobe PS13/LR. Before doing so I did some test, i.e. using PS13 I added places, people, events and ratings. I then looked at the image in PhotoMe and found the following:
* People, Places and event are all added to Field = Keyword, Tag Name = Keywords
* I could not find ratings in the list of IPTC fields
So here are my questions:
* Shouldn't "people" go under the field "Person Shown" in the IPTC Extensions?
* Shouldn't places go into the fields "City", "Province/State", "Country", etc of Location Created in the IPTC Extensions?
* Shouldn't events go under Event in the IPTC Extensions?
* Where does ratings end up? I believe it should be under "Urgency" (depreciated, is there an alternative?) but can't find it anywhere.

Sigurd den Haan:
Welcome to the iView Forum. Where are you importing from? Another application? Are you adding keywords in that other application? If not, then where?
No knowing the answers to those I will suggest that you do not use the auto-rotate in the camera. It has caused different problems in iPhoto, specifically the use of those images in other applications that do not read those auto-rotate tags.

Nested IPTC Tagging

I would like to know how to apply all tags when using a sub category tag.
For example:
Cars (CAT)
---Ford (SUB CAT)
------Fiesta (TAG)
------Mustang (TAG)
------Crown Victoria (TAG)
------Town Car (TAG)
------Explorer (TAG)
---Chevy (SUB CAT)
---Chrysler (SUB CAT)
I want to be able to apply the explorer tag to a picture and have it also write ford and cars as tags as well.
Also is there a way to get it to add tags based on your folder heirarcy in windows. For example I have a folder called 2007 with all the pictures I have take this year. Is there a way to get it to apply this to all the photos in this folder?

Shurafa
1. highlight all three items, Cars, Ford, and Explorer and drag them to the photo or photos.
2. I use the date method also. I have a category for the year and tags for the months. When I import a group of photos from the same time frame, I select them all and then drag the date tags to them. The helps me find each months photos for further tagging in case I accidently went back to all photos.

Lightroom (1.4.1 and 2.0) doesn't properly save IPTC in UTF8?

I'm having problems viewing metadata written in Lightroom 1.4.1 or 2.0 beta in other applications.
I write titles, captions and keywords in Lightroom on Mac OSX, using danish characters such as Æ Ø and Å. I then export the files to a JPG, and try to use it in for example Flickr and Menalto Gallery 2.2.4 (both of which can read IPTC tags), but in both cases the danish characters do not display correctly, and I have to manually edit all titles, captions and keywords containing them, after I have uploaded.
This prompted me into doing a bit of research on what was actually written to the file, and it seems that both Lightroom 1.4.1 and 2.0 beta do not correctly write IPTC tags in UTF8.
I've been using Exiftool to view the metadata on one of the files exported from Lightroom (both versions), and this is what I see: The XMP tags display correctly, but the IPTC tags do not.
> exiftool -f -G LR1.4.jpg
[IPTC] Object Name : ¾¿ ^' * Erik
[IPTC] Caption-Abstract : Her ¾r nget m¾rkeligt text. J¿¾*@
[XMP] Title : æø å ^' * ç Erik!
[XMP] Description : Her ær någet mærkeligt text. Jøåæ*@
Reading the Exiftool forums, it seems that according to the IPTC specification, IPTC supports UTF8 encoded metadata, but it *requires* that the field IPTC:CodedCharacterSet is set to "UTF8" or "ESC % G". My theory is that Lightroom *does* write IPTC tags in UTF8, but doesn't write the CodedCharacterSet field (I can't see it), and Exiftool then interprets the IPTC data as latin1 (or something similar), and gets the characters wrong. It seems that this is what Flickr and Gallery 2.2.4 are doing as well.
References:
http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/2114
http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/5133
Am I correct? And can Lightroom be changed to properly export IPTC metadata in UTF8?

I did a bit more research: I tried setting the CodedCharacterSet to utf8 myself:
exiftool -IPTC:CodedCharacterSet="UTF8" LR1.4.jpg
...thus forcing Exiftool to interpret the iptc tags as UTF8, but that didn't give me readable IPTC tags:
[IPTC] Object Name : ? ? ^' * ? Erik
[IPTC] Caption-Abstract : Her ?r n?get m?rkeligt text. J???*@
Which led me to believe that Lightroom for Mac OS X isn't writing IPTC tags in UTF8 after all.
Finally I tried saving the content of the IPTC tags to a file, and opened that with TextMate, forcing it to interpret it as MacRoman. That worked. There were still a few weird characters here and there, but the danish characters were displayed.
So apparently Lightroom 1.4.1 and 2.0b on Mac OSX are saving their IPTC tags in MacRoman encoding. I would *really* like an option to have IPTC tags written in UTF8, because the IPTC tags currently generated from my Lightroom on Mac cannot be read properly on Windows or Linux systems.

IPTC legacy Contact - not imported by 3.4.1

Last year I tried out Aperture and found that it was able to see the 'IPTC legacy Contact' field. This is important for me, as it corresponds to the field "People" in the wonderful iView programme that I've been using for ever. It lists the people on my images. Recently when I upgraded to Mountain Lion, this old program stopped working however. And so I decided to buy a fresh Aperture, and import my pictures.
However: the new version of Aperture does not import the IPTC legacy Contact anymore!
This XMP:People field is equal to the IPTC:Contact (legacy) field, and in iView it is used to list the people on the image.
I've checked the jpeg file using exiftool to see if Aperture can write fields using 'Metadata'->'Write IPTC Metadata to original', or do the inverse with 'Metadata'->'Update from Original'. The result is:
-- Aperture can write the IPTC legacy Contact field
-- Aperture does not input the IPTC legacy Contact field
That means that the new Aperture 3.4.1 version cannot do what the older version did half a year ago??
Something else I notice, is that when I fill in the name of a face, this name is added as one of the IPTC Keywords.
.. so should I try to copy my "XMP:People" = "IPTC:Contact" (the two are equal) to the Keywords?
Is this is a known bug, where can I see a list of other known bugs in metadata handling?
How soon it will be fixed? And will I then be able re-read my metadata from the original files?
Another question: in iView, I was used to being able to merge the metadata that I had entered with the fields in the file, where either information in the file or in iView would 'win' in the merger. How should I do such an operation in Aperture?

Same here. I checked on my iMac and an MBP in Aperture 3.4.1, MacOS X 10,8.2, and I see the same. Aperture exports the legacy contacts field, but it does not show it in the versions when importing an image.
However, when I check the imported original/master image file, the IPTC field is not erased - the version just does not reflect the data stored in the legacy contacts field.
Something else I notice, is that when I fill in the name of a face, this name is added as one of the IPTC Keywords.
.. so should I try to copy my "XMP:People" = "IPTC:Contact" (the two are equal) to the Keywords?
Keywords? or do you mean IPTC tags? The keywords are a special kind of metadata tags, and I do not see the "faces" names in the Aperture keywords. In which tag do you see them?
if you want to use another IPTC field to store the Contact info, I'd recommend to copy your info to one of the metadata fieldds, that are not marked as "legacy". Any feature labelled "legacy" is likely not to be supported in the near future.
Is this is a known bug, where can I see a list of other known bugs in metadata handling?
I have not seen this bug reported before, and do not know of any list of known bugs.
How soon it will be fixed? And will I then be able re-read my metadata from the original files?
Write a bug-report to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html
They should be told, that users still depend on this legacy tag, otherwise the chances are slim that they will bother to fix it - the name "legacy" clearly indicates that this metadata tag is doomed and only supported for compatibility reasons.
Your imported originals/masters still have this field and carry the data - at least mine do - so you might consider to write an Automator service to access them with a shell script using exiftool.
But it might be easier in the long run to simply copy these data to a different tag that is still supported.
in iView, I was used to being able to merge the metadata that I had entered with the fields in the file
Aperture keeps the data you enter in the versions. Also, when you import an image file, the tags should be copied to the version. When you edit the tags and want to add these changes to the original file, you can use the command "Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to Original". That will write your changes to the original file, but not merge the data.
Just some thoughts - sorry that I do not have a solution for your problem
Regards
Léonie

Some missing and corrupt IPTC metadata on export

As a Lightroom user I'm trying Aperture 3, I may be missing something or failing somewhere...
I've imported some RAW files which already have IPTC metadata, captions, copyright, keywords etc. On export the copyright field has corrupted, the symbol © becomes ¬© and a few fields are missing. I don't have a date, rights usage and the image is marked as unknown copyright status.
All of that data (except copyright status) appears in Aperture so I'd expect to see it in an exported JPEG. Everything appears as I expect when making a JPEG from Lightroom.
Thanks for any comments or advice.
DG

Novak Yo wrote:
As a matter of fact, it doesn't export costum filds at all.
By definition, custom fields are non-standard, and therefore aren't included in the exported file as they won't mean anything to other software. This has been the case since Aperture 1.0 and has absolutely nothing to do with other metadata problems.
Your website will likely be reading IPTC tags so if you want the information to be readable you'll have to find some appropriate IPTC tags to store the information in.
Ian

Disappearing iptc fields - script to lift and stamp metadata

Hi there,
I don't know if this is a general thing or not with Aperture 2.1, but in my library (all referenced images on 3 external disks) lots of not really recent photos get their thumbnails and previews updated anytime I browse the library. Although it slows down aperture a little, it's not really a big issue. The problem is that many older images lose their IPTC data upon refresh. It just disappears, leaving only the keywords in place. Caption etc are all gone. I have tried to update some of this manually, but as soon as I use reveal in an applescript, so I can lift and stamp metadata from another picture in the shoot, some more files get updated etc. etc. I don't really know what's happening here, probably a bug, but I've written a little applescript to update them automatically.
What it does:
It goes through all albums in the library (you can probably change this to something less granular if you only use projects as the basis of your library) and applies the iptc of one of the images with iptc data to the ones without it. It's not 100% error proof but works in my setup. The way it works is it puts all images in one of 2 lists, with and without caption information. It then gets the exif date and the iptc data from the last image on the list with captions and applies the iptc data to any image on the list without captions with the same exif date (to avoid stamping images from albums that have images from various sources.
My library is organized into folders with the name of the external drive the referenced images are on. It then contains projects (with or without a certain theme) and withing those projects are albums that reflect the directory the images on the disks are in. This is a leftover of my old days with iview media pro. All images are within an album. One last thing: Run the script from the Aperture menu. From the script editor it's very slow, due to large amounts of text passing through.
Anyway, here's the script, I hope it helps, maybe it can serve as an example for scripts like it:
-- create lists for photos with and without captions applied and references to the lists (supposed to be faster)
set imagenscomcaption to {}
set imagenssemcaption to {}
set refimagenscomcaption to a reference to imagenscomcaption
set refimagenssemcaption to a reference to imagenssemcaption
tell application "Aperture"
--get all albums of the main library, i assume pictures in albums are related to each other and captions from one image can be applied to another
set albumsdefotos to albums of library 1
repeat with contadordealbums from 1 to the count of albumsdefotos
set cadaalbum to item contadordealbums of albumsdefotos
set fotos to image versions of cadaalbum
--get the name of the album and display it
set nomedoalbum to name of cadaalbum
display dialog (nomedoalbum as string) & " - album " & contadordealbums & " of " & (count of albumsdefotos) giving up after 2
-- get all photos in album and put them in the right group, with or without caption information
repeat with contadordefotos from 1 to the count of fotos
set fotocorrente to item contadordefotos of fotos
tell fotocorrente
-- get all iptc tags and convert to string to be able to search without having to flip through all of them
set nomesdostags to name of IPTC tags as string
-- add to either list depending on having an iptc tag or not
if nomesdostags contains "Caption" then
copy fotocorrente to the end of refimagenscomcaption
else
copy fotocorrente to the end of refimagenssemcaption
end if
end tell
end repeat
display dialog (((count of refimagenscomcaption) as string) & " images with captions - " & (count of refimagenssemcaption) as string) & " images without captions" giving up after 2
--code to apply iptc tags of last photo in list with captions -if it exists- to all photos without them
if (count of refimagenscomcaption) is greater than 0 and (count of refimagenssemcaption) is greater than 0 then
--use last item of the list as source pic for iptc
set fotoorigem to last item of refimagenscomcaption
tell fotoorigem
try
set dataexiforigem to value of EXIF tag "ImageDate" as date
set dataorigem to my date_format(dataexiforigem) as string
set tagsorigem to IPTC tags of fotoorigem
on error
set dataorigem to "0000-00-00"
end try
end tell
--handle pics without caption, check image date first and as extra security only apply iptc of origin to destiny if the date is the same
repeat with contadordestino from 1 to count of refimagenssemcaption
set fotodestino to item contadordestino of refimagenssemcaption
tell fotodestino
set dataexifdestino to value of EXIF tag "ImageDate" as date
set datadestino to my date_format(dataexifdestino) as string
end tell
if dataorigem is equal to datadestino then
repeat with tagcorrente in tagsorigem
set nometag to name of tagcorrente
set valortag to value of tagcorrente
tell fotodestino
try
make new IPTC tag with properties {name:nometag, value:valortag}
end try
end tell
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
set imagenscomcaption to {}
set imagenssemcaption to {}
end repeat
end tell
--routine to format a date into yyyy-mm-dd
on dateformat(olddate)
set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to old_date
tell (y * 10000 + m * 100 + d) as string to text 1 thru 4 & "-" & text 5 thru 6 & "-" & text 7 thru 8
end date_format

Hi there,
I don't know if this is a general thing or not with Aperture 2.1, but in my library (all referenced images on 3 external disks) lots of not really recent photos get their thumbnails and previews updated anytime I browse the library. Although it slows down aperture a little, it's not really a big issue. The problem is that many older images lose their IPTC data upon refresh. It just disappears, leaving only the keywords in place. Caption etc are all gone. I have tried to update some of this manually, but as soon as I use reveal in an applescript, so I can lift and stamp metadata from another picture in the shoot, some more files get updated etc. etc. I don't really know what's happening here, probably a bug, but I've written a little applescript to update them automatically.
What it does:
It goes through all albums in the library (you can probably change this to something less granular if you only use projects as the basis of your library) and applies the iptc of one of the images with iptc data to the ones without it. It's not 100% error proof but works in my setup. The way it works is it puts all images in one of 2 lists, with and without caption information. It then gets the exif date and the iptc data from the last image on the list with captions and applies the iptc data to any image on the list without captions with the same exif date (to avoid stamping images from albums that have images from various sources.
My library is organized into folders with the name of the external drive the referenced images are on. It then contains projects (with or without a certain theme) and withing those projects are albums that reflect the directory the images on the disks are in. This is a leftover of my old days with iview media pro. All images are within an album. One last thing: Run the script from the Aperture menu. From the script editor it's very slow, due to large amounts of text passing through.
Anyway, here's the script, I hope it helps, maybe it can serve as an example for scripts like it:
-- create lists for photos with and without captions applied and references to the lists (supposed to be faster)
set imagenscomcaption to {}
set imagenssemcaption to {}
set refimagenscomcaption to a reference to imagenscomcaption
set refimagenssemcaption to a reference to imagenssemcaption
tell application "Aperture"
--get all albums of the main library, i assume pictures in albums are related to each other and captions from one image can be applied to another
set albumsdefotos to albums of library 1
repeat with contadordealbums from 1 to the count of albumsdefotos
set cadaalbum to item contadordealbums of albumsdefotos
set fotos to image versions of cadaalbum
--get the name of the album and display it
set nomedoalbum to name of cadaalbum
display dialog (nomedoalbum as string) & " - album " & contadordealbums & " of " & (count of albumsdefotos) giving up after 2
-- get all photos in album and put them in the right group, with or without caption information
repeat with contadordefotos from 1 to the count of fotos
set fotocorrente to item contadordefotos of fotos
tell fotocorrente
-- get all iptc tags and convert to string to be able to search without having to flip through all of them
set nomesdostags to name of IPTC tags as string
-- add to either list depending on having an iptc tag or not
if nomesdostags contains "Caption" then
copy fotocorrente to the end of refimagenscomcaption
else
copy fotocorrente to the end of refimagenssemcaption
end if
end tell
end repeat
display dialog (((count of refimagenscomcaption) as string) & " images with captions - " & (count of refimagenssemcaption) as string) & " images without captions" giving up after 2
--code to apply iptc tags of last photo in list with captions -if it exists- to all photos without them
if (count of refimagenscomcaption) is greater than 0 and (count of refimagenssemcaption) is greater than 0 then
--use last item of the list as source pic for iptc
set fotoorigem to last item of refimagenscomcaption
tell fotoorigem
try
set dataexiforigem to value of EXIF tag "ImageDate" as date
set dataorigem to my date_format(dataexiforigem) as string
set tagsorigem to IPTC tags of fotoorigem
on error
set dataorigem to "0000-00-00"
end try
end tell
--handle pics without caption, check image date first and as extra security only apply iptc of origin to destiny if the date is the same
repeat with contadordestino from 1 to count of refimagenssemcaption
set fotodestino to item contadordestino of refimagenssemcaption
tell fotodestino
set dataexifdestino to value of EXIF tag "ImageDate" as date
set datadestino to my date_format(dataexifdestino) as string
end tell
if dataorigem is equal to datadestino then
repeat with tagcorrente in tagsorigem
set nometag to name of tagcorrente
set valortag to value of tagcorrente
tell fotodestino
try
make new IPTC tag with properties {name:nometag, value:valortag}
end try
end tell
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
set imagenscomcaption to {}
set imagenssemcaption to {}
end repeat
end tell
--routine to format a date into yyyy-mm-dd
on dateformat(olddate)
set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to old_date
tell (y * 10000 + m * 100 + d) as string to text 1 thru 4 & "-" & text 5 thru 6 & "-" & text 7 thru 8
end date_format

Importing IPTC data into LR database

I have a many jpeg images on my HD that have basic IPTC data incorporated. Just to set the scene, in the system I used to set this up, I have a short 'Title', such 'Peter enjoying a meal in Venice" and a more wordy description, such as 'This restaurant overlooks the Grand Canal with St Maggiore on the other side. Superb meal consisting of: etc'. For IPTC transalation, I set 'Title' = IPTC Headline (and for a reason to do with the system, IPTC Object Name); 'Description' = IPTC Caption/Abstract. (These are the IPTC tags provided by the system).
For importing into LR, I have set up an IPTC preset to include Basic Info - Caption, IPTC Content - Headline, IPTC Status - Title. The successfully imports my short 'Title', but NOT the description.
Can anyone please advise how I can import the description.
Peter

You can store the list of data from the Excel sheet that you have read already into an ArrayList
Then go through the JDBC tutorial, and learn how to insert a single record into the table.
After you understand how to insert a single record, you can iterate through the ArrayList of data and insert them into the table in the database.
If you know JDBC, see if you can use OR Mapping frameworks like Hibernate or iBatis, they make it very easy to manage database in Java.

Importing files with embedded IPTC metadata - Workaround?

I was hoping the the "metadata improvments" that Apple delivered with Aperture v.1.1 would include the ability to import legacy files with IPTC and XMP metadata embedded by Photoshop, iView, Photo Mechanic, and other similar programs.
Unless I am missing something that ability is still not a part of the Aperture program.
I really like Aperture and think Apple has got many things right in the new program. I would like to make it my primary tool for digital image management. That would require the ability to read into the Aperture Library the metadadta written by other programs.
Does anyone have a workaround for importing files that lets other programs IPTC tags be imported or connected with the files.
Thomas
G5 dual 2.7Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6) http://www.thomaswhitephoto.com

Gilles-
I think your problem is likely that you have the option to stack the copy with the original turned on. First, right-click on one of these photos and go to the stacking menu. If Unstack is not grayed out then you have a stack -- select Unstack to reveal all copies.
To change the automatic stacking of edited copies from Photoshop, when you next choose to edit a file, in the bottom left corner of the dialog is the check box for unstacking. Clear it, and that choice should "stick" until you change it again.
Hope this helps!
Tony

Wie kann ich mit Aperture 3 und OSX10.6.8 die IPTC Daten in das Originalbild schreiben damit die xmp Dateien nicht mehr benötigt werden

Folgendes Problem, über einen GPS Logger habe ich meinen Canon RAW-Daten eine xmp Datei hinzugefügt. Nun habe ich mit Aperture 3 die RAW Daten geöffnet und sehe die Ortsangaben der xmp Datei. Diese möchte ich nun aber in die RAW Datei verankern ( IPTC Daten in Original schreiben), damit die extra xmp Dateien nicht mehr benötigt werden und ich mit anderen Programmen die Ortsdaten aus den RAW Dateien lesen kann. Es geht darum, dass der Canon RAW Konverter (Digital Photo Professional) diese Angaben dann auch lesen kann und die dann umgerechneten TIF Bilder diese Ortsangaben auch enthalten. Ich versuche es, aber es will einfach nicht gehen.
MacPro mit 10.6.8

Hallo PitOMally,
Aperture bietet wenig Möglichkeiten den Raw Daten IPTC zuzufügen, da das raw format kameraspezifisch ist.
Wenn Du das Metadatenmenue verwendest -
Metadata -> Write IPTC Metadata to Master (im deutschen Menu heißt das vermutlich: Schreibe IPTC Metadata in den Masterfile o.ä.)
dann erzeugt Aperture eine Kopie des Raw-Masterfiles als Tiff-file in der Library, die ziemlich viel Speicher frisst, aber die IPTC tags enthält.
Ansonsten ist die einzige Möglichkeit, beim Export
File -> Export -> Master
wieder einen Sidecar file auszugeben, aber den hast Du ja schon.
Unabhängig von Aperture kann man versuchen mit exiftool, Automator oder AppleScript diese tags zu setzen, wenn man mit diesen Werkzeugen vertraut ist.
Hummel Hummel aus Hamburg
Léonie

Solution for missing EXIF tags and untranslated values

A few weeks ago I asked how I might have Aperture use words rather than numbers to describe various camera settings. It doesn't help much to know that that the exposure program setting was "2" when it fact it was Av. I was old it could not be done.
A freeware product called ExifTool already does this - translates EXIF numerical data into ordinary english. And, while I've never tried to do so, it will also create new IPTC tags based on other tags values. This is a potential solution for getting readable information from EXIF data as well as the EXIF's Aperture doesn't even try such as Bracket Mode, Lens Type, or the auto focus point(s).
There are two things I don't know...
1) Will Aperture correctly handle any IPTC tag it encounters during import?
Maybe - they can be created from within Aperture.
2) How to get ExifTool to actually create a tag?
The provided man page example does not work for me...
[AL3:~] irwin% exiftool -Comment='This is a new comment' ~/Desktop/u/Experiment.CR2
0 image files updated
1 image files unchanged
...or even...
[AL3:~] irwin% exiftool -Comment+='This is a new comment' ~/Desktop/u/Experiment.CR2
Can't add Comment:Comment (not a List type)
Nothing to do.
I'm asking that someone more experienced than me suggest why I can't create this new tag.
There's light at the end of this tunnel,
-Irwin
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8) EOS-5D

In the newer versions of itunes 6+7 (don't know about 5) iTunes by default will rename the file on the HD to match the info in the "Name" column of iTunes - this is true if you have the "Keep" option selected in iTunes prefs>Advanced>General.
With iTunes 4 this was not true. I would use one of Dougs scripts to rename all my files on the HD to be Artist-Song Name. You can still do this in iTunes 6+7 if you turn off the "Keep" option or you don't edit any info in the id3 tag once you have run the script.
I know nothing of the Sonos and other stuff - I can only think that is reading only the file sname and not the id3 tag info. If it doesn't have the capability of reading and displaying the id3 tag info then I think you are out of luck. iTunes is reading the id3 tag info.
MJ

What is the best way to scan and sort old photos in iPhoto

What is the best way to scan and sort old photos in iPhoto? They do not have digital dates.

Hey Chicago Sue,
Once you scan them and have them on your desktop. You should use Automator and assign the common IPTC tags to the images, so that when you do import them into iPhoto, they get recorded.
Here is an example of an action in Automator:

IPTC tags?

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