While waiting for DxO to give us the possibility of having presets, I found a way to fill in the IPTC fields automatically with presets.
I use Macro Deck for my keyboard shortcuts and I configured a key for a preset with the following sequence:
And I can create as much as I want.
I have a few images in a folder where I have stored the IPTC data I want to copy and I copy and paste from the appropriate reference image.
It works but it shouldn’t have to be this way.
Yes of course there is also this means which I hope is temporary.
I chose another way since I have a navigation between the folders/images which is very slow so go get an image copy the IPTCs then come back to my image, it will be binding.
@Franky & @MikeR or use XnViewMP, complete with templates but without variables (e.g. filename etc.) as in Photo Mechanic, but much cheaper! I agree with your concerns but …
and the result in PL6.1.0
and the “template” I used
2022-12-10 - Shoreham Beach - Edit Xmp -2.zip (981 Bytes)
The lack of IPTC productivity tools in Photolab to maintain metadata with and the absent support for migration to and from other IPTC-software are the main indicators that Photolab in itself still is a hobby user tool when it comes to metadata support.
There is quite a lot to like about Photolab PictureLibrary already but it´s essential that DXO listens and adds these tools ASAP.
I do that as well, and you’re right, given that these values can held in industry standard XML files, it shouldn’t have to be this way.
