I, too, embed the source citation on images. As with anything digital it's best to work within a standard. One such standard is called IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council). This is the standard for adding information to what is called the metadata of a photo.
I am not an expert. I am working on a Windows 7 platform and what I've found is that it's best to add your source citation into the Title field since the Title field is the IPTC standard Description field. Every software that deals with images will not follow this standard. Some follow the standard but call the fields something different as Microsoft has done with the Title/Description field. The Subject and Comment fields that you will see in the Microsoft properties of an image are not included in the IPTC standard. More information about this standard can be found at www.iptc.org. A good article I've found that explains this better than I ever could can be found at http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/labelling.html. I followed this article's suggestion of inputting the name of a field into each field, then used various different photo viewing software to see what actually showed up. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Rob Vader <[email protected]> wrote: > > As you never know what the future brings in possibilities to view information > (e.g. 25 years from now I find this file...will I be able to read all > properties still, etc...). What I do with information about persons on a > picture, places, dates, etc. is to enlarge the canvas of the picture. This > will result in an empty part at the (e.g.) bottom of the picture and there I > will paste all kind of text. Everyone will be able to crop the picture later > and will also see the information with certainty. Of course, when using the > image in Legacy output it is cropped. I only do this in the original..... > > Perhaps this can be of help to someone. > -- > Vriendelijke groeten, > > Rob Vader > 06 5058 9079 > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> First, I create the citation using source writer. Select the text of the >> citation and hit cntl-c to copy. (If I am going to use the citation many >> times I save a model of it as a text file.) Then, in the windows picture >> library I right click the photograph and select properties. Click the >> details tab and paste (cntl-v) the citation into the subject field. >> >> If it is a photograph that I took myself than I probably will use Photoshop >> to add a lot more detail about the photograph, but that discussion should >> probably go offline. Unfortunately, Microsoft Picture Editor does not allow >> me to edit properties. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Julie A. McNeice <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 10:20 pm >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Insatlling citation into digital Image, was scanning >> photographs >> >> Would you please advise how to cut & paste the citation into a digital image? >> Thanks, Julie McNeice >> >> Jack wrote: >> And for what its worth, I always (try to) cut & paste the citation into the >> metadata (properties) of the digital image. 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