Is there a way to keep it? PP 4 maintains the exif data but not the iptc which is where I store copyright and general info...
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Unfortuantely not! This is one of my pet issues, everytime I edit a picture in PP I have to add the IPTC data again and this is extra time and money.
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ah...thanks Alfred. This is a really crummy oversight on Corel's part...it is a lot of extra work and terrible if you forget to do it.
I just got a professional photo assignment and had resisze 32 images to send to a newspaper. I foolishly did the work in Corel and was about to copy-paste all the info back into the smaller files when my husband suggested I try my image viewer. (He uses Irfanview as well)
So I redid the resizing in a batch dialog that involved simply setting the new dimmensions, the dpi, and choosing to keep the iptc and exif data. Took 2 minutes. How embarrassing.
Yes it is embarrassing when you have to use a free application to do what PP as a professional app. should be doing for a long time!
Has this issue been addressed in X5?
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Probably one of the top three reasons I have abandoned PP as an editing application. Stripping of data is not an option I can tolerate.
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I would like to remind Corel Corp. that many of it's customers are using other software to handle chores that Photopaint should already be able to handle as of several versions back and it is not a pleasant experience having Photopaint delete our hard work.
Photographers, archivists and any people who have to compile data in mass amounts for cataloguing require that their software be able to retain (if not be able to directly edit) IPTC data.
I will give an example:
As a photographer about every 3-4 days I download 100 to 200 images from my cameras directly to my computer.
I sort those photos into a straight forward folder structure: Year>Month>Camera Model>Date
These sorted photos are then accessed through a renaming program whereby they are labelled by date.
They are then accessed by my image viewer to input the important IPTC data: COPYRIGHT, DESCRIPTION OF SUBJECT, etc.
At the start of each month the previous month's images go through another sorting process that involves appending the name to reflect the subject matter- this may also include editing the IPTC again in bulk.
(I use two separate programs to do these things to avoid potential disasters.)
Once this is done the photos (or any image that can hold IPTC data actually) that we send off to newspapers, magazines, web sites etc. always require further processing in our image editor: resizing, colour corrections, and watermarking to name the commonest tasks and we would like to feel comfortable using Photopaint but many of us don't because of the lack of IPTC compliance.
I use Photopaint a LOT because for some strange reason it is extremely capable of handling massive amounts of images that go through the same processes one after the other (manually- not with a macro) and it ANNOYS ME NO END that after all the processing I've just done I'M FORCED TO RE-INPUT the information that Photopaint stripped out.
Photo-Paint simply have to show IPTC/Exif data.I have been resaving from CPT/JPEG/Tiff back and forth, and got different results. Not everything is lost, but surely enough. It has to be a improvement to this.
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We have been missing you Alfred.
Photographer should check this out http://dxo.com/intl/photo I'm giving it my Award for best RAW converter this side of Mars.
And so it should be at the price.
I'm sure metadata will come. Better not be before Page Numbers and Power Fields in Draw. ;)
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Rikk Flohr: Probably one of the top three reasons I have abandoned PP as an editing application. Stripping of data is not an option I can tolerate.
This is really disappointing. How many times have we complained about this? I have already jumped to another app for my photo cataloguing and editing needs, to a database-centered program. Only use PP for editing images that are imported into Draw, or those rare occasion I have to do layers or masking. We have been waiting for this for 3-4-5 versions now. What are they waiting for? Really weak not to address this issue. Corel are not interested in photographers? Every other human being has a camera nowadays.
My critique might sound harsh, but even as as a loyal Corel user, I must someday speak out clear and loud.
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