Individual metadata

Sometimes you want to make individual metadata for some photos. Below the global metadata settings you have this possibility where you see all the photos individually. All metadata you can edit in the global settings you can edit for individual photos.

As we described earlier, you have two different view of presenting the photos: 1. As an overview, the photos presents as thumbnails and you choose which photo you want to edit by clicking on it. 2. Individual, every photo is already expanded so the input field for the metadata is visible directly

Photo overview

In Photo overview, you can open the individual metadata setting for one photo by clicking on the thumbnail, or pressing cmd+E when the photo is in focus. You can move within the list so move to the specific photo by using the arrows on the keyboard.

Individual

If you choose the individual tab, all the photos are already expanded.

If you edit one metadata that earlier was the same on all photos, and therefore has a value in the global settings, this field will after your individual setting has the text about individual metadata exists in the global settings. In the global settings, only the metadata that are the same on all photos are displayed.

Photographer

If you have a name of a photographer on the metadata for the image, this photographers name will be stored in the field Original Photographer (1). This name will also be stored as the concept Author (2). This will do, that when you use this photo in an article, this name will be set as Byline for the photo.

The normal behavior of all metadata concepts (Authors, Tags, Categories etc) is that each concept is persistent and unique. Since all photographers are not created as concepts, we can handle authors in two different ways:

• Persistent concepts

• Strings of text - such data that is not persistent or unique, but only “text”. These are displayed with a red frame