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Photo mechanic + batch copy caption to keyword
Dave Klotz, Photographer
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Louisville | ky | US | Posted: 12:01 PM on 02.12.10 |
| ->> Does anyone know if it is possible to batch copy all of your captions to the keyword panel in the IPTC stationary pad? |
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Ed Wolfstein, Photographer, Assistant
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Burlington | VT | USA | Posted: 12:14 PM on 02.12.10 |
->> Sure. Add the following keyword to your list of keyword, or as your only keyword, and PM will add you entire Caption into the Keywords:
{caption}
Make sure you use those squiggly parenthesis. Try it.
- Ed. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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WorldWide Global | ALL | Terra Firma | Posted: 1:00 PM on 02.12.10 |
| ->> NO WAY !! Man it just keeps getting better. I was cutting and pasting. Any more short cuts I should know about? |
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Scott Morgan, Photographer
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Rockford | IL | United States | Posted: 1:45 PM on 02.12.10 |
->> I've said it before, but I'm a personal fan of this one
{iptcdow}, {iptcmonthnameap} {iptcday}, {iptcyear4}
which (today) will return Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
It just takes it from the time you have set in the camera. You can set it so it is in AP style like I have it, or the full month name or abbreviation, or even numbers - 2 / 12/ 10 if that's the way you do captions. Just click on the variables button. |
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Al Goldis, Photographer
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East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 2:09 PM on 02.12.10 |
->> Scott, I use--and love--that one too. It's great knowing you always have the date correct without having to fuss with it. But if you want to make it shorter, you don't need the iptc prefix on each variable:
{dow}, {monthnameap} {day}, {year4}
works too. |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 3:15 PM on 02.12.10 |
->> Dave / Nick ...
~ Snapshots ~
Rather than creating a completely new IPTC pad for each event, if you are covering one sport or school repeatedly you can save the complete IPTC pad as a snapshot.
I have one with all the basic contact info, rights and location saved. Click the little lightning bolt thingy on the bottom left of the dialog box to save and open your snapshots.
After an event, all I have to do open the stationary pad, select the snapshot, type in a general caption (final score or what the event was), headline and keywords for the event I just covered. The I apply that pad to all of the photos. Then I go through each individual photo to type in one or two sentences that apply to that frame. Usually it is ID of who is doing what and what they did special (score game-high, pulled down the most steals, batted four homers....ect).
The number of files I caption in 20 to 30 minutes now use to take two to three times longer before I moved to PM years ago.
HTH! |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 3:18 PM on 02.12.10 |
->> One more thing -
In the caption field for my snapshots I use:
"{tmnn} {day}, {tyr4} - {city}, {state} - "
So every caption starts off with
"February 11, 2010 - city shot in, state - " |
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Dave Klotz, Photographer
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Louisville | ky | US | Posted: 1:32 PM on 02.17.10 |
->> thanks everyone for all the input.
will the {caption} work from the keyword panel? I tried this and it just left the keyword as {caption}, instead of putting the actual caption in the box. the way I am doing this now is I am pasting {caption} in the box and clicking save to advance. Was hoping there could just be a one click step in this through the keyword panel. |
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