Pat, A good article is here re IPTC: http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/labelling.html I do not use the visible option, but have in as part of the metadata.
You can use a number of freeware to edit the images: irfan http://www.irfanview.com/ xnview http://www.xnview.com/en/ :) Margaret On 5 January 2015 at 13:43, Pat Hickin <[email protected]> wrote: > So how does one do that?? > > Pat > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Richard Folkerth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> GREETINGS, ALL >> >> I have no opinion about the ability (or not) of Legacy to 'source' >> photographs. But I DO have an opinion about the best way to provide source >> info for a photograph; put the source information in the image metadata. >> >> Metadata is the data about the data image; the text information that >> accompanies each image, JPEG or whatever. The metadata allows us to attach >> everything from our street address to the subject of the photo to the >> technical info about the photograph ... to the source of the photo. I believe >> any useful information associated with an image has a place somewhere in >> the metadata. >> >> Most modern image processing or image viewing programs allow access to >> the metadata, yet too few of us use this important feature of digital >> imaging ... myself included. I know I should type the stuff into the >> appropriate fields but too often I grow bored and move on to more exciting >> things. Doesn't matter if you follow the approach of Elizabeth Shown Mills >> or not; just put something in the metadata that will allow someone else to >> know where you found the image (even if it is from your personal collection >> of photographs). >> >> *Bottom line; put sourcing in the metadata no matter what other sourcing >> you may do !!!* >> >> DICK FOLKERTH >> Dallas >> > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
