This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 26 Mar 2008, by Tris Hussey.
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22 Aug 10
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If you look under your “Tools” menu you’ll see a “Create Metadata Template…” option. Click on it. A dialog will pop up that contains empty fields for all of the IPTC, Audio, Video, and DICOM metadata. The last 3 aren’t of terrible use to photographers, so I’ll focus on the IPTC fields. To create the template, simply fill in the parts that you’d like to be applied to EVERY photo you import under this template.
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my name, location, email, phone, website, and copyright info. Most of the other fields will either vary photo to photo, o
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you’ll need to connect your photos to your computer. Go ahead and do this however you normally would. If you use a card reader, plug in the card. If you connect the camera through a USB cable, plug in the camera. Now ignore or close any pop-ups or dialogs that show up from the operating system or other software —
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does not store your files or place them in a database — the software is only a functional window to your existing file structure on your hard drive.
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our “File” menu and choose the “Get Photos From Camera…” option. I
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looking at
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ou’ll need to choose the source location
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ith thumbnails of your photos with little check boxes below them. Only the items you have checked will be imported when you press “Get Photos”
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ur download i
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sets of options that tell Bridge what to do with those photos as they are downloaded. The “Save Options” have to do with file and folder names.
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n location is merely a directory of subfolders. Bridge gives several options for creating subfolders (all having to do with the date),
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dialog without opening Bridge first. You can also save copie
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e files to another disk location. The one option that might be useful, depending on your preference for file formats, is the “Convert to DNG” function. I
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is for applying metadata. So all that junk up above about creating a metadata template… this is where we
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make their way onto your computer. Do note that the option to apply metadata is only available in the advanced
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job. Once the photos have been downloaded, they’ll be located on your hard drive right where you specified. And if you check on your metadata (and if you used a template), you should see the appropriate fields populated.
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26 Mar 08
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