Don’t Forget Your Image Meta Data

The web is a vast and wonderous sea of sites and at the end of the day you’ll never know where your images will wash up. One sure fire way to make sure you get credit for your images is to add the meta data to them. For example I collected from around the web all the best costumes that I could find and have been adding them to an album in my facebook. If you have the proper data in your images it will auto fill fields in facebook with your image information.

 

Through the looking glass.

Lets start. I first get my image – in this case it’s from flickr of a cool Buzz Lightyear costume, I download it and then fire that baby up in Photoshop.

Then You click on ‘File’ Then file info, this pulls up  the window  for entering all the metadata on am image.

I fill in some details, then also make this image copyright

 

Note the copyright symbol here.

So whats the big deal about this info anyway? well, head to  Facebook, and add this image to your album

Notice all the meta data was automatically added,  had another person taken this image and Posted it on their facebook or website all your info goes with it.  Photographers have been doing this since they could do this.

So be sure to tag all your artwork or photography. Cheers

 

Resources

FlickrEdit – Flickr Free Image editor
iTag – Free Meta information editor
ExifTool – Free image meta tag editor