User Manual

AlbumPlus Organizer: Managing Photos 225

Geo-Tagging tags

Tags can also be assigned a Geo-Tag. When a Geo-Tag is added to the tag, any

photo or project that is associated with the tag can be located in the PhotoMap

View (see AlbumPlus Organizer Help).

To display your tags in the PhotoMap View, click the Show on Map

button.

For more information about adding Geo-Tags to your tags, see AlbumPlus

Organizer Help.

Understanding metadata

The main strength of modern photo albums comes in their support for various

metadata types, all intended to report the photo and file information that will

help identify your photo. Three of the most popular metadata formats,

EXchangeable Image File (EXIF), International Press Telecommunications

Council (IPTC) and the eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP), are supported

within AlbumPlus Organizer.

Assigning XMP-based tags, file information, ratings, and comments to a photo

means that your album contents can be distinguished from each other by

initiating simple searches for such metadata (see p. 235). Read-only EXIF and

IPTC metadata can also be viewed (see below) or searched for at any time.

IPTC is an older metadata format (used for news organizations and photo

agencies) which contains photo details (including captions, keywords, credits,

Metadata types

XMP

XMP is an editable Adobe XML-based metadata format, now superseding IPTC,

where data is stored as "keywords" representing the photo's subject matter.

The tags you can assign to your photos from the Tags Pane are XMP-based—

you can create tag names and a tag structure that represents the photo contents of

your album (see Using the Tags pane on p. 220). Assigning photos to your tags

then becomes a simple drag-and-drop procedure.