- I recommend you take the time
to add some metadata to your images.
This will help you with things like copyright,
as well as making sure you can find
these photos in the future.
Let me just do this in Lightroom,
but it's very similar inside of Bridge,
which we'll take a quick look at in just a moment.
Now I've been organizing these shots,
so this makes it pretty easy.
By continuing to organize your shots
into groups or stacks, you'll have an easier time
finding everything from a particular location.
I can now select all those, and come over here
to my metadata, and just go into my IPTC metadata.
This is where I can add information.
Now you can do things like add your name in,
as well as the job title.
I'm going to tell it not to bother warning me
that it's adding this, there we go.
Let's do our job title.
And then if we want, we can even go as far
as including information about the house and the location.
Now since I'm sharing this with the world,
I'm not going to get too specific,
but I will put the city for this house,
and the state, and postal code so it's easy to find.
By putting in this key information, you can find things.
Now, you'll notice as we scroll down,
there's other additional information,
so you can include, also, your information,
which we put up here under the creator for contact,
and we can come down here to the actual image itself.
This allows you to put the date of creation in,
which might be helpful to find,
or to add the city where the image was actually shot.
Well this was shot near our office as well,
so I could put that same material in.
And you can then add additional information,
such as copyright status or any other things you want.
Now by taking this time of putting in some of
this information, particularly information
about the image, it's going to make
it easier to find in the future.
This metadata is now embedded in the files
and means that if you have to go back
through your library to find it, all the better.
Additionally, you can actually use
some of this other material, such as description here.
I could say that this was from shot one
and then add the date of the shoot.
Now it's going to be easy for me to know
that as I search for that, I could quickly find
just the shots from the first tour.
Now as you do these sorts of things,
you might find it useful to actually take advantage
of metadata templates, this will allow you
under the presets here, to build out a template
and start to fill in key information.
You'll note here that it automatically took
all that material and put it here into this preset.
Now I could take the current settings
and make a new preset, we'll call it VR_shoot.
And I can click done.
Alright, now let's select shot two.
We'll choose everything, and you'll notice
under metadata, that I could apply that
as a preset and apply it to all selected.
Now it populates, and all we need to do
is come in and actually update the name.
I'll just go to the description down here
and change this to shot two.
There we go, we've got the correct description,
hit return, and it applies to all files.
We can come down here to the next set,
select all that, apply the same metadata preset,
and then simply come down to the file name
and modify it as needed, there we go, and it updates.
So by using metadata presets, you can get
the most essential information in.
Now you could of course choose to modify or delete
those presets, but this is just
a great way to quickly populate.
If you're going to use something like Adobe Bridge,
that same metadata becomes available.
Now because we've been modifying these images,
if we take a look at our metadata view,
you'll see that some of that same information
is loaded in, down here we can see
all the information about the properties of the file.
Now what I'm going to do is simply make a few changes,
so if you decide that you need to,
take a look at the IPTC information
and the IPTC extension, this is where you can go in
and actually modify, so if you decide
that you need to add more material,
I often find it's pretty easy to use Adobe Bridge.
Now you can simply select an image
or range of images, and just click into a field
and add the essential information.
This metadata can also be batch applied
by selecting a range of images.
No matter which program you use,
taking the time to add some metadata
is a good idea as it will make it easier
later on to find all the pieces.
Taking that organization, when we take a look
at stacking and actually moving things into folders,
and then turning that into actual embedded metadata
means that in the future as the images move around
or get passed through your library,
or even handed off to other people,
it's going to be much easier to keep all of the images
from a 360 panorama together in a set.