There are lots of lightweight graphics programs out there that can help you with this. It used to be that only professional photographers and journalists had easy access to this “IPTC metadata.” But now, with even the simplest photo software becoming powerful, all of us can now benefit from this technique. The best place to add this information is actually a simple text field (box) that you type into and is then stored inside of your master image files. So then where is the right place to go hog wild and write all about your photographs? Captioning Your Photos See, the filename just isn't the best place for a lengthy description Strong and precise keywords for sorting and identification work best there. In part 2 of my series on how to name your scanned photos, I suggested that the image's filename isn't the best place to save a lengthy description of your photograph.

But, now that we are wishing to move our prints, slides and negatives to a digital form in our computer, how do we easily add this information so that it can live with each master image file? With prints, it was easy to record this information by writing the stories by hand on the back. And even if you could, you and your memory aren't going to be on this earth forever. But face it, you probably won't be able to. Some of us might think we can remember all of the details.

I think it's so important that you record these “priceless” descriptions as soon as you can.

Sometimes they're so effective, they just seal the emotional experience of being there - as if you were right there when that photograph was taken - even if you weren't! The description (caption) my Mother wrote on the back to be the storyteller for this photoĪh, there's nothing quite like reading a great caption to go along with a special photograph.

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