Doubt about tool

[Andre Porto]

Good Morning

 

I'm testing affinity these days. looks pretty cool!
I'm a photojournalist and I basically have to edit and caption my photos quickly to upload.
I can't understand how to make a subtitle in matadata and paste it in all the photos. Is it possible to do this? Can you help me?
 

Thanks
Best Regards

[carl123]

Click the File dropdown in the Metadata Studio Panel

You can add stuff here and save with the image

Copy/Paste that, to make a caption.

 

[NotMyFault]

19 hours ago, Andre Porto said:

Good Morning

 

I'm testing affinity these days. looks pretty cool!
I'm a photojournalist and I basically have to edit and caption my photos quickly to upload.
I can't understand how to make a subtitle in matadata and paste it in all the photos. Is it possible to do this? Can you help me?
 

Thanks
Best Regards

Even if it is possible in Photo, there are more specialized apps like exiftool to bulk modify metadata without impacting the pixel content. As you said your are a journalist: some agencies insists of receiving unedited photos. Normally, every Camera (or the accompanying software) has an option to setup metadata in Camera, to put into every captured image.

 

[Wosven]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

some agencies insists of receiving unedited photos.

Unedited as in not modifying the image, since it should reflect the reallity (but adjustements, colors, luminosity, etc.), but usually, the caption and other metadatas should be added, and/or can be completed/corrected by someone managing the photos database or the archives.

[NotMyFault]

6 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Unedited as in not modifying the image, since it should reflect the reallity (but adjustements, colors, luminosity, etc.), but usually, the caption and other metadatas should be added, and/or can be completed/corrected by someone managing the photos database or the archives.

Affinity does not leave image data from jpeg files intact / unmodified. As far as i know it will always de-compress / re-compress pixel data. Metadata might get modified, too. Normally compression should not alter an image, but in edge cases it can be relevant.

There are tools to rotate images by only adjusting the metadata. Other tools will touch every pixel.

You will clearly see the difference after repeated iterations.

[Wosven]

But the images are usually modified by Lightroom or other tools like PS or AP the photograph use before giving them to the agency/publisher.

It's not as strict as in some nature photography contest, — refusing any modification —, since in the end, for the photography to be choosen and published in an article, it should be interesting/stricking... the best part of the shot should be enhanced without modifying the people/objects/scene.

And a really important part is giving a detailed caption, with location, date, etc. (it'll be improved, translated if needed, and keywords can be added too... or the photographers need to learn to do this if they don't have an agency to manage the photos and add them themselves to online site).

[Ron P.]

I don't think there anywhere near as strict now as they once were. Back in 2013 The Sun Times laid off all of their photographers. IIRC, they gave their journalists cellphones and they were required to get the photos for their stories. Other papers in Cleveland, San Antonio followed suit. So it wouldn't surprise me if they would accept crayon drawings now.

[v_kyr]

You have different choices here for bulk images, one would be using an exif metadata read/write tool like Exiftool / ExifToolGUI (... or some other third party tool which reuses the exiftool libs internally). - Further there are also Photo Catalogue Software (DAM) versions, which allow you to do the same (write additional metadata as exifs) and also allow to keep/track/associate additional custom image related data entries (captions, section keywords, author and image descriptions ... etc.) with each catalogued/archived image for overall search and retrival purposes.