Subtitles of the Movie

Every digital file can have a host of information included with it that covers not only the camera information, such as what camera, lens and settings you used, but also keywords to copyright and contact information and more. To view the metadata, click on the Metadata Tab. If it's not immediately visible, come up here to Window and then toggle the Metadata Panel on. Next you can scroll to the area of interest. Note that the information that's related to the settings you used for that particular shot appears in its own little window in the top left that makes it easy to see at a quick glance. You can see that I shot this at F56 one six hundred fortieth shutter speed at minus .33 exposure compensation ISO 100 auto white balance evaluative metering. There's also some other information up here about my file size and the color space that I used. You can scroll to the area of metadata of particular interest, whether it's more detail about your camera data, which shows down here that I used the 100 to 400 lens, a focal length of 400, et cetera. Or you could come up here to IPTC Core and see that although I've added my basic metadata template, it's added my name, city, state, e-mail and website but there are lots of other categories. Any category that has a pencil by it is a category that I can edit. For example, perhaps I'd like to add a description. I could put Pair of Blue Snow Geese in Flight. When I click back on my Preview Panel, I get the message asking whether I want to apply it. When I click Apply, you can see now that there's a description of this image. Any field that has a pencil icon by it can be edited. You'll find that there are other categories, such as your camera data, that don't have those pencil icons and those are fields that cannot be edited. If you do edit a field and you have more than one image selected, you can apply the change en mass to all the images that you've selected. It's possible that more or less information is showing in the metadata field than what you might need. To control what fields are visible, go up to Bridge, Preferences and then in Metadata make sure that those fields that you're interested in are checked and those that you don't care about are not checked. When you're done, click OK. Paying attention to metadata is particularly important if you send your images out. This is the information that identifies the file with you. If you post your images on the web, it may take a tiny amount of time longer to load with the metadata attached but then there's no question as to the origin of the images. In older versions of Photoshop, the Save for Web Command automatically stripped the metadata but in CS4, there are options to strip the metadata, retain all the metadata or just the copyright or copyright and contact information, which is what I'd suggest. Paying attention to metadata can be a major step towards making certain you are credit with your images and towards recalling information that was pertinent about that particular image.