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File Info IPTC data help.
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I recently sent some photos to a national news paper, and they were kind enough to e.mail me back and tell me i hadn’t enough information in the “FILE INFO” in photoshop.
Part of the e.mail is as follows-Every Picture MUST be Fully Captioned in “File Info” in Photoshop (or similar) and contain the following information:
Who, What, Where, When & Why.Date picture was taken (at the start of the caption) and Photographer’s name at the end of the caption.
Name of publication (e.g. Weekend, Examiner, County, Money&Jobs etc) Name of contact (e.g. Dan, Tony, Margaret, Blake etc) if relevant.
What article the pic relates to, and any other relevant info.Can anyone tell me, what goes where, and what parts need to be filled in with what from the drop down menu, in photoshop.
Section: General
Title:
Author:
Author’s position:
Caption:
Caption writer:
Job Name:
Copyright Notice:
owner URL:
Section: KeywordsSection: categories
Section: origin
Date created:
City:
State/Provence:
Country:
Credit:
Source:
Headline:
Instructions:
transmission reference:Fill in as much as you can.
However, the paper really needs the “Caption” field filled with the details of the event.
thanks but could ya be more specific. what do ya put in source, instructions, headline, caption writer etc etc
Section: General
Title: Image title
Author: Your name
Author’s position: Photographer?
Caption: – Who, What, Where, When & Why.
Caption writer: – Your name
Job Name: Anything
Copyright Notice: Copyright / All Rights Reserved
owner URL: Your website URL to your copyright information
Section: Keywords
keywords of what is in the pict
Section: categoriesSection: origin
Date created: Obvious
City: Where
State/Provence:
Country: Ireland
Credit: Your nameSorry, no offence, but shouldn’t all that be clear? The main thing the paper need is the caption. The rest of the EXIF should already be there, taken directly from the camera (unless you’re stripping it out for some reason, eg – save for web in photoshop).
Thanks paul,
Found what i was really looking for here, without question marks.
http://www.pixalo.com/articles/Embedding-file-info.php” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;Most papers that I know of only really care about 2-3 fields, but you may need to fill in more fields if submitting to a picture library etc.
Main field: CAPTION (or called DESCRIPTION in newer versions of Photoshop) put ALL the relevant details here: Start with the Date (avoid confusing references like Today / Yesterday), the Give the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN & How – as appropriate. If you Want a byline (credit) include this at the end of the caption – don’t expect your website to be credited also! Two other important fields are: File Name – Should be two or three words MAX (with no special symbols) and Copyright notice – Insert your e-mail address and Mobile contact No. – then no legit publisher can claim they could not contact you.Thanks Paddy, much appreciated. Could you use the “Caption” as part of the file name? and/or could ya use your own name, or would this be too much.
No, the caption doesn’t go in the filename. The filename should be short.
The caption is where you describe what is in the photo and give all necessary details.
The papers simply extract the info from specific fields to use. If the info is in the wrong field, they will simply not use it. They work with a particular format. They don’t have time (or patience) to go searching for information. If it’s not where they want/expect it, then according to them, in info isn’t there and the image isn’t used.
Hi Iris,
This is what it should look like:
[attachment=0:1m5q4xeu]caption.jpg[/attachment:1m5q4xeu] , A lot of Photographers start the file name with their initials and use 2-3 words job description.ditto what paddy did.
if you look under some photos in the paper your dealing with, you’ll see the caption. They usually just copy it from the caption above, and paste it to just under the photo. word for word. so by reading other peoples captions, you’ll see the style the paper likes.
Merv.
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