1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,265 Add to and edit the fine details of images to leave your mark and make 2 00:00:06,265 --> 00:00:12,917 things more searchable. To open the metadata panel, in the menu bar choose window > 3 00:00:12,918 --> 00:00:19,320 metadata. To understand the metadata panel, you'll need 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:25,472 to understand that the metadata panel reflects whichever file 5 00:00:25,473 --> 00:00:31,608 is active in the content panel. So the metadata that you're seeing right now 6 00:00:31,608 --> 00:00:38,356 in the metadata panel is the metadata for this active file, which 7 00:00:38,357 --> 00:00:44,513 is my strawberries camera raw file. At the very top of the metadata panel, the 8 00:00:44,514 --> 00:00:51,460 placard uses common icons for digital camera commands and functions. 9 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:57,895 Again, the placard is going to change the pending on the file that you have active in 10 00:00:57,896 --> 00:01:03,942 the content panel. Some metadata in the metadata panel 11 00:01:03,942 --> 00:01:10,135 can be edited. If the metadata can be edited, you will see 12 00:01:10,135 --> 00:01:16,707 an editing box next to the title of the metadata. Not all metadata 13 00:01:16,708 --> 00:01:23,000 can be edited, however. If you have more than one file active in 14 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,036 the content panel, then the metadata panel will only list things that the 15 00:01:29,036 --> 00:01:35,061 active files have in common. For example, both of my active images 16 00:01:35,062 --> 00:01:41,272 are 6,000 pixels by 4,000 pixels, so that 17 00:01:41,272 --> 00:01:47,460 metadata information is showing. They're also both at 16 18 00:01:47,461 --> 00:01:53,829 bit depth, and they both have the RGB color mode. The dates 19 00:01:53,829 --> 00:02:00,016 that they were created on is different, so in the metadata panel, the date of 20 00:02:00,017 --> 00:02:06,250 the creation of the file is not going to be listed. Now, if there are times when you open the metadata 21 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:12,516 panel and you find that it's empty, it's likely because you do not have any files active 22 00:02:12,516 --> 00:02:18,688 in the content panel. Also, folders do not have metadata, so if you have 23 00:02:18,688 --> 00:02:24,738 just a folder active in the content panel, there will be no metadata showing in the metadata 24 00:02:24,739 --> 00:02:31,469 panel. Next, let's look at how to use the metadata panel. 25 00:02:31,470 --> 00:02:36,527 I'll click and activate my strawberries image in the content panel. 26 00:02:36,528 --> 00:02:43,860 To enter information in an editable field in the metadata panel, 27 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:49,948 click inside that field, then enter a word or phrase. This field 28 00:02:49,948 --> 00:02:56,197 is for the creator and I took this image, so I'm going to type in my name and press 29 00:02:56,197 --> 00:03:03,007 enter or return. And now, Jen White is part of the metadata of that strawberries 30 00:03:03,008 --> 00:03:09,430 image. There are also apply and cancel icons down here at the bottom right 31 00:03:09,430 --> 00:03:16,833 corner. So if I were to start typing in, say, my email address, 32 00:03:16,833 --> 00:03:23,083 and then I decide to cancel out of that, I can click on the cancel icon, 33 00:03:23,084 --> 00:03:29,084 or if I'm ready to commit the change, I can click on the apply icon. To 34 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:35,209 search your files based on any metadata, in the metadata panel, 35 00:03:35,209 --> 00:03:41,451 click on the panel menu and choose find. This is going to open 36 00:03:41,452 --> 00:03:47,682 the advanced search dialog box. We'll be seeing this dialog box over and over again 37 00:03:47,683 --> 00:03:54,045 in all kinds of situations. But here, it's automatically gearing us towards 38 00:03:54,045 --> 00:04:00,140 the criteria of metadata. And so let's say that I want to 39 00:04:00,141 --> 00:04:07,189 search for files that contain my name, Jen White. 40 00:04:07,190 --> 00:04:12,978 I want it to look in my main folder. I want it to contain 41 00:04:12,979 --> 00:04:19,278 all criteria, including subfolders, and non-index files. Now as you might 42 00:04:19,278 --> 00:04:25,549 suspect, this is only going to pick up information that I've already entered. 43 00:04:25,549 --> 00:04:32,163 So if I don't have my name on very many files, it's not going to pick up very many files. 44 00:04:32,164 --> 00:04:38,947 But let's go ahead and see what it finds. I'll click find, and it's basically freaking out with all the information. 45 00:04:38,947 --> 00:04:44,968 So I'm going to click stop search and cancel the find. And let's try that again. I'll 46 00:04:44,969 --> 00:04:51,292 go back into the metadata panel, into the panel menu, and choose find. And this 47 00:04:51,292 --> 00:04:57,365 time, I'm going to not include the non-index files. And I'm also not 48 00:04:57,366 --> 00:05:03,510 going to include any subfolders, and I need to enter that once again. 49 00:05:03,510 --> 00:05:09,545 So I'm going to put in Jen White, click find, and hey, there's that image that 50 00:05:09,545 --> 00:05:15,581 I just tagged with my name. So I'll cancel out of that filter, and then let's 51 00:05:15,581 --> 00:05:21,866 take a look at the metadata of my strawberries photo once again. As you can see, 52 00:05:21,867 --> 00:05:28,947 if you scroll down in the metadata panel, there is a lot of information. 53 00:05:28,947 --> 00:05:35,956 So you may find it helpful to collapse all these groups of categories. To do that, 54 00:05:35,957 --> 00:05:41,977 click on the panel menu and choose Collapse All. And now 55 00:05:41,977 --> 00:05:48,244 all of those categories have been collapsed. And it's much easier to find something. 56 00:05:48,244 --> 00:05:54,928 For example, if I wanted to find the camera raw information quickly, I can collapse 57 00:05:54,929 --> 00:06:01,200 all of the categories and then I can very quickly go to the camera raw category and 58 00:06:01,201 --> 00:06:07,227 expand it and see what it contains. Now let's say that you really don't 59 00:06:07,227 --> 00:06:13,359 care about most of the stuff here in the metadata panel, but you do want to be able 60 00:06:13,359 --> 00:06:19,494 to use it for stuff like the file properties and things like that. Well you 61 00:06:19,495 --> 00:06:25,565 can actually simplify the view that you're given here in the metadata panel by going into the 62 00:06:25,566 --> 00:06:31,683 preferences. You can see the metadata preferences by going up here to the tab, 63 00:06:31,683 --> 00:06:37,699 clicking on the panel menu, and choose preferences. That will open 64 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:43,703 the preferences dialog box, but it will go directly to the metadata tab. 65 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:50,541 Now here you can scroll down and see all of the options that you are given for metadata information 66 00:06:50,542 --> 00:06:56,645 for your files. If some of these you just simply do not want to see, 67 00:06:56,645 --> 00:07:03,463 you can click on them to hide them. For example, up here we have the file properties. 68 00:07:03,464 --> 00:07:09,893 The file properties is going to contain information that you are likely going to want to use. At least 69 00:07:09,893 --> 00:07:16,219 I use this information anyway. But further on down the list, you have things 70 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:22,463 that may not matter to you. For example, if you do not use camera 71 00:07:22,463 --> 00:07:28,836 raw, you could scroll down here and find the camera raw main 72 00:07:28,837 --> 00:07:34,938 category of metadata. And if you click on this checkmark next to camera raw, it's 73 00:07:34,938 --> 00:07:41,258 going to uncheck all of those. When I click okay, and I go back here into 74 00:07:41,259 --> 00:07:47,399 my metadata panel, the camera raw category is no longer showing. So you can 75 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:54,594 see how that could actually help you to simplify the metadata panel if you use it often. 76 00:07:54,595 --> 00:08:00,601 Another big deal in the metadata panel are metadata templates. To 77 00:08:00,601 --> 00:08:06,763 create a metadata template, in the metadata panel, click on the panel menu 78 00:08:06,764 --> 00:08:12,847 and choose create metadata template. By default, in the dialog box 79 00:08:12,848 --> 00:08:18,887 metadata from the currently active file, we'll be included. If 80 00:08:18,888 --> 00:08:25,831 you want to start with a blank slate, click on clear all values. 81 00:08:25,831 --> 00:08:32,434 The first thing you'll want to do with the metadata template is to name it. So let's say I 82 00:08:32,435 --> 00:08:39,596 want to add my name to the metadata of all the really cool photos that I take. 83 00:08:39,597 --> 00:08:45,622 So I'm going to name my template, Jen White's 84 00:08:45,622 --> 00:08:51,828 Metadata. Then here in this dialog box, I'll be given the option 85 00:08:51,829 --> 00:08:59,163 to enter information into any of the editable fields in the metadata. 86 00:08:59,164 --> 00:09:05,679 So I would put my name here in the creator section 87 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:14,673 and I could also enter my website 88 00:09:14,674 --> 00:09:22,414 and I could put in my email. 89 00:09:22,414 --> 00:09:29,399 So you can see that if you were to use something like this over and over again 90 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:35,413 to add information to files that are on your computer, creating a template like this is 91 00:09:35,413 --> 00:09:41,426 going to save you a lot of time and I'll show you how that works here in just a second. But 92 00:09:41,427 --> 00:09:47,956 I went through and added some information like, I could also add my country 93 00:09:47,956 --> 00:09:54,220 and my state. And then, when I've got 94 00:09:54,220 --> 00:10:00,532 all the information in there for what I would want to include in 95 00:10:00,533 --> 00:10:06,637 a personalized metadata for my photos, I'll click save, and then let 96 00:10:06,637 --> 00:10:12,917 me show you how to use that metadata template. I have this bird photo right 97 00:10:12,918 --> 00:10:19,193 here, and if I look at the metadata of that bird photo, it 98 00:10:19,194 --> 00:10:25,305 doesn't have any information here, but I want to add my personal information to this 99 00:10:25,305 --> 00:10:31,337 photo, so that if somebody else were to get their hands on this photo they would be able to see 100 00:10:31,337 --> 00:10:37,371 that I'm the one that took the photo and they would be able to contact me let's say if they wanted to 101 00:10:37,372 --> 00:10:43,897 send me a million bucks. So what I want to do is I want to take that information from the template 102 00:10:43,897 --> 00:10:51,277 that I created, and I want to add it to the metadata that is already available for this image. 103 00:10:51,278 --> 00:10:57,835 To do that I would go up into the panel menu choose a append metadata 104 00:10:57,835 --> 00:11:03,934 and then choose that template that I just created, called Jen White's metadata. And you can 105 00:11:03,935 --> 00:11:10,158 see that after a second it has taken the information from that template and it's added it to this bird 106 00:11:10,159 --> 00:11:16,719 photo. Now you don't have to add the information from a template to just one photo at a time. 107 00:11:16,719 --> 00:11:22,788 For example, if I had an entire folder full of images, I could select them 108 00:11:22,789 --> 00:11:30,033 all and then append this template into the metadata of those photos. 109 00:11:30,034 --> 00:11:36,830 Other options you have for metadata templates, would be to edit a metadata template. 110 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:42,900 So let's say I found a spelling mistake on the template that I created earlier. I would 111 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:49,117 want to go in and choose edit, choose the template that I created, and 112 00:11:49,117 --> 00:11:55,130 change it, and then save it. It's going to make sure that I 113 00:11:55,131 --> 00:12:02,006 know what I'm doing. I'm going to choose yes, this is actually what I'm wanting, and click replace. 114 00:12:02,006 --> 00:12:08,458 Another thing that you can do is you can entirely replace the metadata of an image, 115 00:12:08,459 --> 00:12:14,506 which I'm not exactly sure why you would want to do that, but you can do it. And if you 116 00:12:14,506 --> 00:12:20,740 were to choose this option, then whatever template that I choose to replace with 117 00:12:20,741 --> 00:12:26,808 all of the editable fields in that file would be removed and replaced 118 00:12:26,809 --> 00:12:32,838 with the information that I have in my template. So we're not going to be using this 119 00:12:32,838 --> 00:12:38,993 panel again in the Bridges class, but hopefully that gives you a good idea of some 120 00:12:38,993 --> 00:12:45,922 things that you can actually do with this panel if you do want to use it. I'm going to go ahead 121 00:12:45,922 --> 00:12:52,085 and close my out because I consider this a non-essential panel. I'll see 122 00:12:52,086 --> 00:12:56,299 you in the next video. This has been Jen White.