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IPTC

As the IPTC code is for more than just images I will not describe it in detail, except for the part that is needed for Photographers and others that like good metadata in their images..

Ill try to explain the fields that you can see in software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Portfolio , Irfan View, IviewPro and such.

Keywords will also be a part of this but they need a special chapter because of their complexity.

As I have mentioned before IPTC stands for International Press telecommunications Council (IPTC) organizer of wire transfer for newspapers and news organizations. For the most part the registry is therefor aimed at news needs but can be used for the normal photographer. Stock photographers will find that they can even use it to. All better image manipulation software can at least do the basics of IPTC. It can also be done in raw converters, but not all of them. Software like Adobe Lightroom and Adobe photoshop have full capability to write all the data.

The areas that are mapped and are for images are found here below. Here we can see how Photoshop CS defines the fields according to IPTC basic rules, and also IviewMedia Pro .

IPTC PSCS IWMP2

05 Object name -> Document title ->Product
10 Urgency -> Urgency ->Color Label
15 Category -> Category ->Genre
20 Supplementary Category -> suppl.category ->Categories
25 Keywords -> Keywords ->Keywords
40 Special instructions -> Instructions ->Instructions
55 Date Created -> Date Created ->Event date
80 By line (author) -> Author ->Author
85 By line title (author position) -> (not seen in file info) ->Author title
90 City -> City ->City
95 Province/state -> State/province ->State
101 Country/primary Location name-> Country ->Country
103 Original Transmission reference-> Transmission Reference ->Transmission
105 Headline -> Headline ->Title
110 Credit -> Credit ->Credit
115 Source -> Source ->Source
116 Copyright Notice -> Copyright Notice ->Copyright
120 Caption/abstract -> Description ->Caption
122 Writer/editor -> Description writer ->Writer

As you can see even though we have a a standard not every body is fully following that standard. It can therefore be a bit confusing and one has to learn about this difference depending on software used.

The good thing about software like Photoshop is that you do not have to type in these informations many times as IPTC panel and other info panels share information.

You can also automate the process of filling in some of the fields.

We will go throuhg the IPTC panels next.