Chapter 7. Making Metadata Work for You
Having good metadata is an incredibly important aspect of digital photography that is often overlooked by most amateurs (and even some professionals). Proper keywords and entry of other descriptive information, not only ensures that you can later find your photos, but also that if you send your images to a client or a service, they can properly catalogue and sort your files. Aperture has powerful metadata tools and is leading in its ability to edit and manage metadata. In this chapter we will look at a few examples of why this information is important. We will also look at the ways of quickly and efficiently entering this data.
In this chapter you will learn:
- Why good metadata is important
- How to use the Info tab
- How to set up list views
- Viewing all EXIF data
- Creating metadata templates
- Different ways of entering keywords
- How to enter captions and titles quickly
- Using TextExpander to speed up data entry
- Batch replace metadata
- Adding custom metadata...
