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Published 10/14/05
New entry under USA Today Follow-ups on metadata.
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I spoke of the virtues of metadata for images, and of one particular program: PixVue. But using metadata isn’t just about having notes in your files. There’s plenty of software that can take advantage of it — for example, to make a Web-based photo album. There are a lot of photo-album packages out there — programs that will take your images and made HTML albums. What you like will depend on your needs. Many are free. I wasn’t looking for something with nested albums, or one that would allow user comments. I just wanted to get my pictures online in a format that fit my site. I use JAlbum, an excellent piece of free software. It has its quirks, but it wasn’t hard to fit it into the look and feel of my site. What I like about it is that JAlbum works with the IPTC/XMP and EXIF metadata I wrote about. It can pull that info out of your images and make it part of the album. Check out the two sample galleries I made. One features pictures of my son, the other has shots of Roanoke. All the images have IPTC names and descriptions, as well as technical EXIF data. JAlbum pulls that information out, and I designed the Web page — where that info is placed. For example, on the thumbnails page I put the XMP title underneath in a small font. On the image page, I put the title up top, and the caption (XMP) and shooting date (EXIF) below. Below that is technical data about the image (EXIF). All automated. And if I switch from JAlbum, that information remains with the image. Cool.
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Richard Hitt says:
I am new to JAlbum. While searching the web for examples, I came to some photos of your son. I was impressed that you were able to coax JAlbum into producing such a nice format.
I will have to delve into the inner workings of JAlbum to see if I can come up with something as nice as you.
Were you serious when you said you were accessing XMP data? I can only see how to get at the IPTC and EXIF info. Any hints?
Thanks,
Richard Hitt