Several tools in ubuntu —GNU/Linux in general— use those fields, but they
may not show by default. Also, as Patrick said, (piwigo ….and most other)
web albums can and do use those fields. Again, maybe not showing them by
default.

When doing a workshop, using the style option in the export module to put
relevant data on the image (by way of the watermark module, and possibly
the frame module), is quite useful. I do find however that, for most
clients, they do not care much about metadata as I do.

One thing I do notice is that tools which use Exiftool may not treat
certain metadata the same as some tools which use Exiv2. That is to say,
all tools can show the relevant data when asked to show all data, but when
asked to show a brief summary, may consider “Description” to be important,
while “Comment” is not, and the other vice versa.

Ergo, I fill in as much metadata as possible. When it comes to
photojournalism and stock photography, I strongly suggest that one fills in
as much IPTC data as possible, (in addition to the usual EXIF/XMP data).
Many stock photography sites and news organisations look there first.

Sincerely,

Karim Hosein
Top Rock Photography
754.999.1652



On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 10:41, Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> wrote:

> I exported a image with description and title. None of the tools on
> Ubuntu showed it me though exiftool showed it to me. I was thinking
> there is some other use for these fields.
>
>

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