Picture Captions

[idiotmitten]

Organizer 7

I scanned in a lot of old pictures and for the caption, I usually added the date and content description. Is that information stored in the picture metadata? If so, what picture shower will display that information?

Thanks in advance. You guys helped a lot with your answers to my previous question.

[JonE]

The metadata will show in the picture's Properties in Organizer. If you don't see that, select menu item Window and make sure Properties is checked. Select an individual picture (click once) and look in the Properties box under the tab with the blue circled "i". Since you scanned them, they will not have the date the photo was taken, only the date you scanned it as the creation date.

[Barb O]

In addition to Jon's post about using the Properties to see the Caption, these features of the Organizer may also help you -

1--- If you are displaying just a single large thumbnail (and the Details choice in the View menu is checked), then the Caption is displayed below the photo

2--- on the Find menu there is a choice for Details (metadata). One of the search criteria in the left pulldown box is "Caption/Description". Now depending on how you entered the date and other info, you may be able to use this Find function to display photo with specific contents in that field. This may take some experimenting to determine what is effective for your specific information. If you would like some help, I suggest that you post an example of the exact contents that you entered for one or for a group of photos.

3--- IF your specific objective is to change how the thumbnails displayed by the Organizer are sequenced, there are Organizer commands for changing the timestamp used for that sequencing. However, that will most probably be a very significant amount of typing for you. So I placed it last on my list in order to determine more about your objective before suggesting any specifics.

[idiotmitten]

I want to send these pictures to others on a CD and I thought the caption would be in the metadata.

I am looking for a picture viewer that will display that information. The others don't have PSE but they would probably install a viewer that I told them to that would display the captions.

[dj_paige]

You need to write the metadata to the files themselves before you send them.

Select the desired photos in the Organizer and then use the command File->Write Tags and Properties Info to Files

[Barb O]

Yes, the caption should be in the metadata. However, I can't immediately identify a general photo viewer across different platforms that will display it.

One possibility would be to make a slide show in the PSE Organizer choosing the option (in the slide show preferences) to display the Captions. Then save this slide show as a PDF file.

Using the Organizer Create tab, Slide show process you can save either as a PDF file or as a Windows video file (.wmv file). I think that I would choose the PDF file because many people will have the free Adobe Reader installed and can read the PDF file.

When making the slideshow I would
-- choose the Large or Very Large slide size for the Output because you will be writing to a CD rather than sending by email (so size of the file is not critical).
-- probably choose Manual Advance so people can take as long as they want to read the caption

After you have written the slide show PDF to your hard drive and are satisfied with testing its playback on your PC, then use your CD burning software to write the PDf file to a CD.

Just an FYI - be aware that when creating a slide show for a PDF file,
-- you can not use the pan and zoom functions and
-- that precise timing of any music (that you optionallly add) with the photo display is not effective.
However neither of these limitations should be signficiant for your purpose of displaying your photos with their captions.

[dj_paige]

Irfanview (freeware) works fine on Windows PCs to display tags and captions.

[idiotmitten]

Thank you and thank you. This forum really has the experts! ;)