I have not found that to be the case with IrfanView, and all of its editing is accomplished with no loss to the original image file.

There are numerous other programs that allow for manipulation of IPTC information however I must caution you that some of these other applications may also overwrite/delete some of the maker-specific EXIF tags that may be important to you. It is extremely versatile and powerful, and it is freeware but, it is only available for Windows PCs. The software I’ve chosen to use in my examples of writing IPTC metadata to jpeg images is the widely used IrfanView ( ).

I have chosen to use Armond Avanes’ very popular BluPlusPlus skin in all of my examples, but the concepts are readily transferable to other skins. Several of the JAlbum skins already offer the ability to extract the metadata and allow the person creating the album to customize how the metadata is presented on the slide pages. I hope that I can rectify that omission and resolve some of the confusion by sharing some of the useful information and practical techniques I’ve learned while conducting my investigation. This is strange, because JAlbum is one of the few slide show applications that is well equipped to take full advantage of metadata to provide meaningful information by way of comments, captions, and the drop-down information windows on album slide pages. I found that metadata is not a 'user friendly' topic! After doing some research (Googling), and after performing some experimentation, metadata is now finally starting to make sense to me.Īs I conducted my research, I found that there was very little detailed documentation on metadata as it applies to JAlbum. These are terms used in JAlbum skins that I struggled a bit to understand.

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