> Tell me more about IPTC and keywords. I have been looking for a way to do this. I need to save about 57,000 jpgs with keywords.
IPTC is a standard that specifies a number of text fields that can be incorporated in the headers of some types of image files, mainly JPG, PNG and TIFF. One of these fields is Keywords (note: nowadays people usually talk about XMP data, which includes IPTC, EXIF and a few more types of metadata).
Through the
Batch Edit Metadata command in TP10's
Image menu, you can copy your database keywords into the IPTC Keywords field of the respective image files. The benefit of having them there is that the information will always travel with your images and that a database can be easily reconstructed (just re-scan the images and tell the program to read the keywords into its own database). A potential drawback is that anyone who has the image can see what information you have stored there.
It works like this: Select your image files, go to Image | Batch Edit Metadata, and set these values:
[*] XMP field to modify: Description | Keywords
[*] Operation to perform: Set (or Append if valuable keywords may already be present)
[*] New Value: (press Get Value From button) Image Info | Keywords (press OK)
[*] Now click Add Step, and press OK to apply the batch command.
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(Note that by writing to the image files, their time/date stamp will be updated to the current time).
> As for working off the cloud, it seems to work well as long as I keep the data base on the C: drive. Opening the pictures (from my PC) does not generate network traffic unless I make a change to the file.
Well, if the file is stored remotely, it has to travel to your PC whenever you open it.. there's no way around that (except if the file is being cached because it had already been opened shortly before).