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Creating a Metadata Template will enable you to quickly add some basic information to all your images. In the old days, when we used to work with prints and slides, we would physically label the images, both with information identifying the subject and location, as well as contact and copyright information for the photographer. I can recall carefully printing information both manually and by computer on little sticky pieces of paper that we carefully applied to slides. It was a challenge to keep them neat and legible. But by attaching that information to each slide, when we sent them off to an editor, we knew that they'd know who to pay and where to return the pictures. And when we looked at them, we knew exactly when and where we took the image. In today's digital world, it's just as vital to include contact and copyright information, as well as subject information with each photo. That way no matter where the file goes, people will know it's yours. Fortunately, it's really easy to create a basic Metadata template that you can add to all your images right as you import them from the memory card into the computer. That way it's done immediately and you won't accidentally send off an image without identifying information. To begin, go to Tools, Create Metadata Template. Give your template a name, such as Contact and Copyright Information and then choose what information to include. Be certain to include at least a copyright and again, to get the copyright symbol on a Mac, it's Option G and on a PC, you hold down the Alt Key and type 0169 on the num pad. Then choose some additional means of contacting you, whether you want to fill in your full address or perhaps just the city and state, perhaps the zip code, country. You may want to include your phone or e-mail or at least a website. You definitely want to include some method of contacting you. Perhaps you also want to have keywords included. That's up to you. When you're done, click Save. Now this template will be available from the Metadata Tab or the getPhotos from Camera option. So if we come up here to this little icon, we can choose to Append the Metadata for this image. Here's our contact and copyright information or we can come up here to Tools, Append Metadata and there's our contact and copyright information again. When we click on it, then our information is added to the image. You can see my copyright is now there and the additional information that I've saved. If at any point you want to edit any of these fields manually, simply click on the Pencil Icon and then you can type in any information that you want. Using Metadata templates is a huge timesaver and makes good sense. It's all too easy for images to be stolen these days and everything that you can do to reduce the chance of your images being used without your permission is a good idea.