Re: Scripting PhotoShop.. and IPTC text
Re: Scripting PhotoShop.. and IPTC text
- Subject: Re: Scripting PhotoShop.. and IPTC text
- From: Hellum Timothy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:18:18 -0500
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actually Adobe implements a subset of the IPTC standard)..
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I just tried opening the file I created in GraphicConverter
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with Photoshop and it found all of the header info, so I'd think
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if the IPTC data in GraphicConverter image files doesn't work
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right on the PC then PhotoShop and PhotoScripter wouldn't be
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of much use either.
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R23
Richard,
I am more than pretty sure that IPTC data is kept intact when applied
through PhotoShop (across platforms). I work at a large Canadian daily
newspaper, and so IPTC data tagged to files is exceedingly important to us
(photographer, date taken, location, summary, original text reference and so
on). We download images from databases on the web that don't know on which
platform we plan to use the files, as well as receive images modem'd from
filed photographers that have had their IPTC data applied in situ (on a PB
or Notebook).
We are even experimenting with Data-to-go which may enable our
photographers to apply IPTC via a cell phone connection directly attached to
their Nikon D1 cameras! I only use GraphicConverter to occasionally open
stubborn jpegs that have somehow been corrupted in transmission - often half
an image is better than none at all. So I can't speak to its cross
referencing of IPTC between platforms.
Timothy
Photodesk
The Globe and Mail
(416) 585-5375
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