![]() ![]() ![]() However the program is set up to read these things automatically and to add the keywords to the Categories tree. In this text file (you can open it with Notepad) the program stores (among other things) the keywords. If you'll go with Explorer you'll see next to your beloved myBestPhoto.jpg another file called myBestPhoto.xmp (or similar). (gee.)Īnd now for us, mortals: That window in which you put the keywords creates a special file which lives / stays "together with" / "next to" the image. The IPTC/XMP (etc.) are standards of encoding metadata in sidecar files. (Let's say that) Keywords and Categories are the same thing. Have i stumbled on to something here or am i about to make a mess of things? ![]() was referring to for using the database for keywords? rather than putting keywords into the image file, i should, instead, create a category for each keyword? wouldn't that result in a zillion categories? and wouldn't it take a lot of extra work to associate each image with all of these categories? Do you want to save?'īabaG wrote:but wait, there's more! having gotten keywords into my file, i noticed that mp had, all of a sudden, created new categories under the heading of 'other.' i'd added three keywords to my test image and these same three words had been added as new categories. Usually this is accomplished through 'Save'/'Save As' actions or through a message from program saying 'The file was changed. = The edits from dedicated forms - IOW from the Edit tabs - need a decisive action from user's part to commit (ie. When you cannot specify a destination, this is the same file (IOW, the file will be overwritten). = The batch edits from Browser are automatically saved on destination. ![]() However there is an option to automatically export these in a special sidecar file (usually an XMP file) which, being an industry standard, can be read by other DAMs. You need XnViewMP to see these but you don't need to 'save' them. In-catalog management = Rating / coloring / keywords are stored in the database.You don't need 'anything' to see that and to 'save' that. On-disk management = File operations = copy/move/delete/rename are "real".the Categories tree which is in the Info Pane in the lower-left corner in one of the tabs there). Better use the trees which are already on screen (eg. references in other posts to things like 'keyword tree' have me completely baffled.įor the keywords, don't use the 'metadata tool' (aka Edit IPTC / XMP window). adding keywords was going to be my next step in trying to follow the logic but i'm stumped at the moment. i'm starting to get a handle on when things are being sorted or assigned virtually and when they are actually being moved or copied but it's still confusing. More generally, being an utter n00b to this, i find myself often confused by virtual vs. i know i'm doing something wrong but don't know what. the other boxes or fields, while they will highlight with a blue bounding box, don't seem to take input. i put something into the first field and it just disappeared. i can add things like byline and copyright but, when i go to the keywords metadata tab of the metadata tool, nothiing seems to work. Still don't get how to add keywords, though. ![]()
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