Print Metadata

Does anyone know how I can print an individual photo or contact sheet with the Metadata referenced on that/with that print?

David,
I don't think it can be done in Elements. You could use another graphics
viewer like IrfanView (www.irfanview.com), which lets you put the Metadata
right on the image or copy them to the clipboard to be printed separately.
Either way is just a bit cumbersome, but it's a possibility...
Juergen

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Store the Printing Metadata for each picture

2) Can Lightroom store print metadata (font size/color, scaling factor) for each picture and for each virtual copy the way it already stores Vibrance, virtual copies, tone curves, etc. information?
Suppose Photo1 and Photo2 have widely different title lengths (6 letters and 20 letters, respectively). Then I print Photo1 then Photo2 then Photo1 again.
Right now I have to retype the title for Photo1 and re-scale the title letters for Photo1 to make them look the same size as the first time printing Photo1, even though I printed Photo1 already.
I print almost all of my photos with titles and often cannot know which photo I'll print next. This is a real time-waster and not having to do this each time would be a huge timesaver!
Thanks!
Robert

Thanks, Ian.
That is do-able for a small number of pictures but I title hundreds of pictures and it would be much better since LR has a nice database to automatically store that metadata.
An analogy in the Develop module is that users don't have to fill in a template to hold all their Develop metadata from session to session e.g., Recovery = 50, Fill = 10, Vibrance = 30, etc. because that would make LR's workflow far too cumbersome for 100s or 1000s of pictures. The same should be true for LR saving Print metadata.
Thanks again,
Robert

Print metadata label on a label writer?

Anyone know a way to print an metadata label using a label writer? This would be handy stick on the backside of a print. That way it would be easy too see filname, when the photo was taken, where, keywords and so on.
Anyone tried this?

Don't know about a label-writer, but it shouldn't be difficult to print a contact sheet which matches one of the Avery (or other) standard label forms. That will give you not only the metadata, but a thumbnail as well. The trick will be getting it lined up, and getting the metadata you want.
You might be able to do something similar with a label-printer, printing one image w. metadata per page/label.
Note too that you can export metadata for selected images as a text file grid. This then requires additional manipulation -- format and print any way you want. If you do it often, it would be well worth automating the process.

Printing Metadata in Photoshop Elements

I am trying to print photos and have them include the metadata with the printed photo. I need the picture to print with the date the picture was taken etc. Can someone help???

Which version of photoshop elements and operating system are you using?

Printing metadata information as a catalog reference

New to Bridge but use it basically for extensive meta data file info when finding and filing artwork easily. Is there a way to print just the meta data info as a catalog sheet. An inventory of sorts for hundreds of works of art? Rather than recreate the info for every piece of art?
Thanks. Currently I'm shift command 4 copying and printing with the images on the page. Filing separately as a book.
Any recommendations for books or tutorials that lean toward image filing/sorting/labeling use of Bridge?

Hi,
I don't know what metadata you care about? In File Info dialog, you can export the metadata to an XMP file in local drive, which is a xml-formed text file you can print or edit it according to your requirement.
To export:
1. Select a file.
2. Open the File Info dialog.
3. Click the 2nd button in the bottom, then select "Export...".
4. Select a location you want to save.
Please let me know if that works for you.
Regards,
Bridge QE
Fran

Print metadata with contact sheet, or alone?

Hi, I am taking a beginner's digital photo class and we have weekly assignments to bring a contact sheet to class, with metadata next to the photo.
I am on an iMac G4 that is NOT an intel mac so I cannot use picasa, which I'm told is the easiest way. I found how to print a contact sheet in iPhoto but it will not add the photo name or the metadata.
So, I tried with my Adobe Photoshop elements and I am not sure how to do this. I found my way to 'bridge' where I can see the metadata but for the life of me, I have no idea how to print the contact sheet with the metadata, as the instructor has requested.
Can anyone help a beginner find her way? Is this doable in PS Elements?
Thanks for any help and/or guidance anyone is willing to give.
Michelle

The short answer is that it can be done with InDesign CS3 via a script someone wrote:
http://www.indesign1200.com/blog/2009/03/02/branding-contact-sheets/
Not sure if the Web Gallery output option in Bridge works how you want it to. The PDF doesnt. It only includes filenames.

How to print metadata?

I would like to print the exif info of an image.

Are you still interested in printing EXIF metadata? You can program an Apple Script to write the EXIF data (and other meta tags) to a text file and then print this file, like this:
(* Write Metadata tags to a file
Author: Leonie Dreschler-Fischer
To run this workflow, select some images in Aperture,
then start the workflow by pressing the "Run Button",
or install the workflow as service in ~/Library/Services and launch it from the Services menu in Aperture,
when prompted, enter a filename for the text output
on write_info(im_version, f)
          local nam, w, h, dat, dims, nl
          local res
          tell application "Aperture"
                    set dat to ""
                    set nl to "
                    try
                              set nam to "Name: "
                              set nam to "Version Name: " & (get the name of im_version as string)
write nam to f
write nl to f
                    end try
                    try
                              set w to get width of im_version as string
                              set h to get height of im_version as string
                              set dims to "   Dimensions: " & w & "x" & h & nl
write dims to f
                    end try
                    try
                              tell im_version
                                        set dat to (value of EXIF tag "ImageDate") as string
                              end tell
                              set dat to "   Image Date: " & dat & nl
write dat to f
                    end try
                    try
                              local thekeywords
                              tell im_version
                                        set thekeywords to (value of IPTC tag "keywords") as string
                              end tell
                              set thekeywords to "   Keywords: " & thekeywords & nl
write thekeywords to f
                    end try
                    try
                              local rating, isflagged, ispicked
                              tell im_version
                                        set rating to get the main rating of im_version as string
                                        set isflagged to get flagged of im_version as string
                                        set ispicked to get picked of im_version as string
                              end tell
                              set rating to "   Rating: " & rating & ", flagged: " & isflagged & ", picked: " & ispicked & nl
write rating to f
                    end try
                    try
                              local cam_make, cam_model, camera
                              tell im_version
                                        set cam_make to (value of EXIF tag "Make") as string
                                        set cam_model to (value of EXIF tag "Model") as string
                              end tell
                              set camera to "   Camera: " & cam_make & " " & cam_model & nl
write camera to f
                    end try
                    try
                              local focal_length, aperture_value, shutter_speed, capture
                              tell im_version
                                        set focal_length to (value of EXIF tag "FocalLength") as string
                                        set aperture_value to (value of EXIF tag "ApertureValue") as string
                                        set shutter_speed to (value of EXIF tag "Shutterspeed") as string
                              end tell
                              set capture to "   Focal Length: " & focal_length & "mm, Aperture: f/ " & aperture_value & ", Shutter Speed: " & shutter_speed & "s" & nl
write capture to f
                    end try
                    return nam
          end tell
end write_info
on run {input, parameters}
(* Write EXIF info on all selected images to a file *)
          if input is {} then error "Please select an image."
          local outputFile, item_count, im, inf
          set outputFile to choose file name with prompt "Output File name"
          set the inf to ""
          try
open for access outputFile with write permission
                    set the item_count to count of input
                    repeat with i from 1 to the item_count
                              set im to item i of input
                              set inf to write_info(im, outputFile)
                    end repeat
close access outputFile
                    tell application "TextEdit"
activate
open outputFile
                    end tell
          end try
          return input
end run
This script can easily be extended to include more EXIF tags, like longitude and latitude. And you can wrap it as an Automator service to be run from the Services menu in Aperture. I put an Automator workflow for download on my webpage:
http://dreschler-fischer.de/FAQ/Scripts_Services/Entries/2012/2/8_Write_EXIF_Inf o_to_a_File.html
To run this service, install it in the "Services" folder in your user library; then select some images in Aperture, and select the service from the Aperture Services menu.
Regards
Léonie

Printing Metadata Labels

I occasionally like to print a label to go on the back of a photo. The information in the label is from the metadata held for the photo in Lightroom. Is there anyway of getting Lightroom to print such a label?
Nick

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Printing--Linewrap/Metadata/Font-size?

Running Lightroom 1.2 on WindowsXP.
Three questions about printing:
1) Is is possible to wrap lines in the Identity Plate? Ideally, I would like to force a hard line break between Name and Location or Name and Date, such as:
Yosemite National Park
2005
and keep both lines centered within the Identity Plate field.
2) Can Lightroom store print metadata (font size/color, scaling factor) for each print the way it stores Vibrance, virtual copies, tone curves, etc.?
Suppose Photo1 and Photo2 have widely different title lengths (6 letters and 20 letters, respectively). Then I print Photo1 then Photo2 then Photo1 again. Right now I have to re-scale the letters for Photo1 to make them look the same size they were before, even though I printed Photo1 already. That's a real time-waster. Is there a better method when you cannot know which photo will be required to print next?
3) Can Lightroom set font size explicitly instead of using % scale factor? It would be a lot more convenient to set the font size at 10 or 12 or whatever so it could carry over to other titles if you want all your titles to print in a specific font size (e.g. 12 points)
Thanks,
Robert

Thanks. Sorry. I typically don't repeat questions.....
Any guidance on my other 2 questions above?
Robert

Metadata on single image print - How To

How do you print a single image and have the file/version name appear on the print?
I have various clients bringing me unlabled photos from 3 months ago, asking for reprints.
Unfortunately there are no identifying marks on any of the prints whatsoever.
How can I figure out which ones they are without visually comparing them against my enitre Aperture library of 75,000 photos?
In my other Profesisonal photo applications I print the file names directly on single prints.
How does one print metadata on single prints in Aperture?

Can we join in as well, or are you happy talking to yourself?
It's a pain if you want to do it with a single image, as you have to drag it into an Album by itself. But you can have a single Album somewhere for that - no need to keep making new ones and deleting them again.
If you want to print more than one image then simply select the ones you want and only those will be passed through to the print dialog, so I'm not sure where this thing about pruning Album contents is coming from. Aperture's printing facilities aren't the best, but it sounds like you are trying to make life more difficult for yourself.
Ian

How to manually set print ordered metadata?

How do you manually set the Print ordered or printed metadata for apeture versions? I have ordered prints through other sites, (Costoc, Smugmug, Mpix...), and would like to be able to manualy set this flag for the images I have printed. Is there a way to do that or is a custom field the best I can do?

Not that I know of (without mucking inside the Aperture package). Sounds like a good use of a custom field, though. You could put in the printing service and the date -- ex: 20120122 Costco, 20120122 Mpix -- and then sort on the field to get a list in order printed, or use a Filter HUD Rule to group by printing service.
You can trigger the built-in Printed flag by ... printing-without-printing. Set up a PDF Printing Workflow that doesn't actually print, and select it from the PDF menu on the second printer dialog that comes up. You could likely automate the whole thing.

Printing a contact sheet

Is there any way to print a large group of photos as a contact sheet, or set of contact sheets?
I know you can use Adobe Photoshop and do an automated batch command to create a contact sheet and then print it.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

"Contact Sheets" should be one of the defaults at the top of the settings panel of the print dialog. There are many options, including printing metadata.
Fuller instructions can be found by searching the Help file for "Contact Sheet":
http://documentation.apple.com/search/#q=contact%20sheet
If you can't get it set up the way you want, ask.

Photoshop CS5+ Default Printer and Remembering Printers in Documents

Yesterday, the last thing I printed from Photoshop was to my Fax subsystem. Today I opened three new raw files, all of which were destined for printing.
This ended up causing the print dialog to initially point to my Fax service for each of the three documents I opened, even though my system default printer is my HP inkjet.
Perhaps it is thought to be a good idea to have the last printer Photoshop printed to (instead of the system default printer) be the default for the next documents created, but... It created exactly the wrong results in this case, multiplied by the number of images I opened. Moreover, it was unexpected operation, because most Windows apps just don't work that way.
Adobe: Please consider adding user-configurable options to your next version that allow a user to select more "traditional" Windows printer operation.
I can envision 3 settings that could be quite useful:
Use / ignore printer metadata from document.
Use system default printer / use the last printer Photoshop printed to.
Store / don't store printer metadata in document.
Through settings like these someone who wants printing defaults to work "the old way" could have what they want, and passing PSDs around amongst multiple users could be managed, instead of getting users into a situation where printer info that's not locally valid came along with the document.
Just a thought.
Thanks.
-Noel

That brings up a similar, and not only annoying but problematic process PS uses.
After running some images from file A, for instance, I now open File B. File B has several images I will combine into a pano. I create the pano, open it in PS and it says "Untitled_Panorama_1". I click Save As and if I do not watch what I am doing, it will not save it to the current File B but to File A. I find this to be true with any file name change. It will save it to the last file opened, not the current. Imagine finding a file under those circumstances! The only saving grace is if you still have the file in Open Recent under File, you can trace back to where it is stored and move it where it belongs.
The only way I have figured to defeat it is after opening to the new file in Bridge, close Bridge and reopen it. Now the Last and Recent are identical.
DXO never does this. I set the default save location to be the same as the Source. At first I thought that was fussiness, but now it makes sense. If I want to save it elsewhere, I know I want to do it and can pick it.
Makes for some interesting folder contents, to see wedding pictures saved in a wilderness folder!
Hmmm, maybe that was an omen!

CS4 Printing Issue

I am running into situations where the following error message appears when I try to print out of Photoshop CS4:
Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printing a document, you need to install a printer.
This seems to be document related as I can have multiple documents open and some will print fine on both of my printers while the one that generates this error will not print at all. I tried saving one of problematic documents, which was a .tiff, to both .psd and .jpg and it still got the error when I tried to print it.
I also tried printing the same document out of Lightroom, while it was open in Photoshop, and Lightroom printed it without any difficulty.
I looked around on the web and found plenty of posts related to this message, but most of the advise ran along the lines of reinstalling print drivers or Photoshop. Knowing that most of the time I do not get this error - it is only with certain documents - I can't see how any of these suggestions would help.
Can any one advise on this?

Both TIFF and JPEG retain the printer metadata. This doesn't solve the issue. You would have to save to a "dumb" format like BMP or TGA that by spec doesn't support any such metadata.
Mylenium

Megadata printing Bridge CS3

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