IPTC Fields and Photoshop

[kipper]

Well I've jumped on the IMatch boat recently and have made a script that goes through every image that I have and adds IPTC author and copyright fields. I'm trying to remove a few steps from my workflow to increase productivity. Having to add these in Photoshop is a pain, and yes I could create/write an action to do it but I'd rather not. So my script goes through and adds all of the relevant IPTC info. I open up Photoshop and my NEF and TIFF (if saved to one) has the IPTC fields set.

Now when I go and use Save For Web to convert it to a JPEG those fields disappear. Is there something that I'm doing wrong or is there a setting that I need to set to copy the IPTC data to the JPEG when being converted?

[kipper]

Ok it looks like I've just answered my own question.
From a bit of googling it appears that Save For Web actually strips out IPTC info to make the file as compact as possible. Looks like I'll have to revist using Save As (which doesn't strip) and see if I can get it to this time save out JPEGs as accurately as the original.

[stubbsy]

Darryl

You can do the resize and save for web in iMatch unless you're doing some PP work in Photoshop and WANT to do it from there.

[kipper]

Depends, most of my bird photos I need to do PPing work to (curves, wb etc). However some shots that I've taken a bulk of recently don't really need any work as I took my time, set the WB, set the exposure correctly. So it's just a case of maybe a bit of cropping (yet to master composition with crap D70 viewfinder). If there is a good tool in iMatch to allow you to specify crop width/height or better yet an aspect ratio (eg. 3:2) then that'd be great.

[stubbsy]

<snip> If there is a good tool in iMatch to allow you to specify crop width/height or better yet an aspect ratio (eg. 3:2) then that'd be great.

Not exactly what you want, but a great starting point is the Resize Master 1.5.1 iMatch script.

EDIT: Some more comments. This is a seriously powerful script. Since it uses the FREE ImageMagick libraries you can use any ImageMagick command in the script so you can overlay text, crop and pretty much do anything using the ImageMagick switches. See here for a PARTIAL list!

[kipper]

Stubbsy, I have an idea of what I want to do anyway.

Basically this:

1. IMatch DB for negatives/raws.
2. IMatch DB for processing (with possible folder awareness?)

Basically I'll convert my NEFS to TIFFS using Nikon Capture, crop them and make any final adjustments. Then put them into the processing directory.

Fire up IMatch and run this script on it to convert it to websize and maybe use ImageMagick to add all necessary signatures and borders.

[stubbsy]

Stubbsy, I have an idea of what I want to do anyway.

Basically this:

1. IMatch DB for negatives/raws.
2. IMatch DB for processing (with possible folder awareness?)

Basically I'll convert my NEFS to TIFFS using Nikon Capture, crop them and make any final adjustments. Then put them into the processing directory.

Fire up IMatch and run this script on it to convert it to websize and maybe use ImageMagick to add all necessary signatures and borders.

Sounds good. The ability to call ImageMagick from an iMatch script is a great example of the power of both products. You can even use ImageMagick to add borders and iMatch to add drop shadows.