copyright info in metadata

[Chantal Fisher]

Hello lovely people - please be kind this is my first post!

As a PS user for many years I have now switched (well nearly!) to Affinity Photo 2.  My question is... could someone point me in the right direction for adding the copyright symbol and info in the metadata?  I have searched the site and the only one I could find was asked in 2017 - I'm sure things have moved on since then.

Many thanks

[five3141two]

Hi Chantal,

I don't know if I understood correct, but:
e.g. in Publisher you can use the "Fields" (Window - References - Fields) where you can fill up fields with your information. 

[walt.farrell]

And in Photo you can use the Metadata panel.

[Hangman]

And if it is specifically the copyright symbol you are wanting to add, then Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows (I believe) and Option G on Mac which as @walt.farrell mentions you can add using the Metadata Panel Window > Metadata...

[Chantal Fisher]

16 minutes ago, Hangman said:

And if it is specifically the copyright symbol you are wanting to add, then Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows (I believe) and Option G on Mac which as @walt.farrell mentions you can add using the Metadata Panel Window > Metadata...

Doesn't work 😞 Tried ctrl alt c and ctrl alt shift c  - if I try it in a text box it's apparently a shortcut to resize? But thank you for the suggestion 

 

[thomaso]

And, just in case, in many cameras you can set custom text as default metadata for all your future photos, e.g. in a copyright or author field.

They will be transferred to Affinity, whereas there is no fully standardised use of metadata fields and thus different software reads/writes a certain custom entry into different fields (e.g. copyright, author, statement, …).

[Chantal Fisher]

1 minute ago, thomaso said:

And, just in case, in many cameras you can set custom text as default metadata for all your future photos, e.g. in a copyright or author field.

They will be transferred to Affinity, whereas there is no fully standardised use of metadata fields and thus different software reads/writes a certain custom entry into different fields (e.g. copyright, author, statement, …).

Thank you - I use my mobile phone (sacrilege I know) for product photos - while it can do a lot, it can't do that! 🙂  

[thomaso]

5 minutes ago, Chantal Fisher said:

while it can do a lot, it can't do that!

If you need to add a specific, repeated entry not just occasionally it maybe worth to use a separate application … and get it done for a folder or bunch of selected images in one go. There are many metadata tools around, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=windows+exif+editor&atb=v373-1&ia=web

[Chantal Fisher]

8 minutes ago, thomaso said:

If you need to add a specific, repeated entry not just occasionally it maybe worth to use a separate application … and get it done for a folder or bunch of selected images in one go. There are many metadata tools around, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=windows+exif+editor&atb=v373-1&ia=web

Thank you so much - I'll check it out 🙂 

[Hangman]

45 minutes ago, Chantal Fisher said:

Doesn't work 😞 Tried ctrl alt c and ctrl alt shift c  - if I try it in a text box it's apparently a shortcut to resize? But thank you for the suggestion

I'm on Mac and Option G works but perhaps someone can confirm the keyboard shortcut for © on Windows...

[walt.farrell]

43 minutes ago, Hangman said:

but perhaps someone can confirm the keyboard shortcut for © on Windows...

Ctrl+Alt+C does not work for me.

With a keyboard that has a numeric keypad, Alt+0169 should work. Or, of course, you could use the Glyph Browser in the Affinity apps, or Character Map or BabelMap, or another app to generate the copyright symbol in a text field, then copy/paste into the Metadata panel.

[Hangman]

I’d completely forgotten how antiquated Windows is for such simple tasks 😉

[v_kyr]

• Windows keyboard tips and tricks

• https://fsymbols.com/copyright/

[R C-R]

49 minutes ago, Hangman said:

I'm on Mac and Option G works but perhaps someone can confirm the keyboard shortcut for © on Windows...

https://www.lifewire.com/copyright-symbol-on-windows-and-mac-2688246#:~:text=The copyright logo%2Fsymbol can,Alt key while typing 0169. describes various ways to enter the © symbol in Windows (1 way on Macs, although it doesn't mention the quick & easy Option+G method).

From https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/insert-copyright-and-trademark-symbols-f417ddfe-b767-415d-871f-95af27fb9052#:~:text=To insert the copyright symbol,press Ctrl%2BAlt%2BR., on Windows Ctrl+Alt+C enters the © symbol only in Outlook.

[Hangman]

3 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Windows keyboard tips and tricks

Windows certainly doesn’t win the award for elegance or simplicity 😊

[R C-R]

8 minutes ago, Hangman said:

I’d completely forgotten how antiquated Windows is for such simple tasks 😉

I wonder if Windows has anything like the macOS Keyboard Viewer?  I never really used it much in the past but now that I am playing around with it & check out the extra options available via the gear icon, I realize it is quite powerful, even able to make suggestions & do some other stuff I am still trying to figure out as described in https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-accessibility-keyboard-mchlc74c1c9f/10.15/mac/10.15.

The links above are for Catalina but most of these options are available even in old macOS versions like High Sierra! Who knew?

[v_kyr]

30 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I wonder if Windows has anything like the macOS Keyboard Viewer?  

It has far more than just that ...

• How to type special characters on a Windows 10 PC

[R C-R]

20 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

It has far more than just that ...

Is there a suggestions feature like in the Apple one?

Also, from your linked article:

Quote

It’s not difficult to add them to your Windows document, although it’s not quite as smooth an operation as on a Mac, where all you have to do is hold the appropriate key down.

That seems to suggest that there is still not something quite as quick & simple as in the macOS  just typing Option+G to type a © or other Option+one key methods to get symbols like ß, Ω, √, ÷, ∞, and so on ... assuming of course you can remember the key combinations for them. 😀

[Alfred]

This is my ‘go to’ page for a useful set of symbols that aren’t readily available via the keyboard:

https://symbols.typeit.org

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

That seems to suggest that there is still not something quite as quick & simple as in the macOS  just typing Option+G to type a © or other Option+one key methods to get symbols ...

Of course you can on Win too by using & defining Shift states for typing Windows symbols. I use there AltGr-C, since (Alt-G like under macOS) is idiotic for remembering C like Copyright. Same as I often use certain AltGr-x combinations for other symbol chars. - Further on better programmable keyboards you can (re)map and reassign whatever chars you want to certain keys or keycombinations freely. I make use of such features for certain own custom keyb layouts (for programming where brackets I often need <({[]})> etc. are remapped to easy and quick access).

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Of course you can on Win too by using & defining Shift states for typing Windows symbols.

But that is not preconfigured so it works out-of-the-box like in macOS, right?

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

But that is not preconfigured so it works out-of-the-box like in macOS, right?

AltGr-C = © and of course it's the default on Win, aka preconfigured and works right out of the box this way on DE/GER keyboards ...

 

The brackets remapping etc. I told of before, is instead custom made/setup for my personal quicker turn-around needs (I don't use AltGr-</7/0/ß/8/9... default mappings) for typing in prog code!

[R C-R]

57 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

AltGr-C = © and of course it's the default on Win, aka preconfigured and works right out of the box this way on DE/GER keyboards ...

So I gather from some of the earlier comments that CTRL+ALT+C does not work for this, which may be why it isn't working for @Chantal Fisher?

EDIT: I guess that can't be it because according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Ctrl+Alt Windows interprets Ctrl+Alt as AltGr, so it should work????

[v_kyr]

US-Keyb ...

 

Common German-Keyboards ...

 

 

[Chantal Fisher]

Good Morning one and all - I'm pleased to say that Alt+0169 worked a treat!  Thank you so much - all now saved in an xmp file - phew!