Datasheet

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Creating and locating metadata
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2 Choose Window > Workspace >Reset Standard Workspaces. This ensures that you
are in the Essentials view and that all the default panels for Adobe Bridge are visible.
Alternatively, you can click and hold on the Workspace drop-down menu, in the
Application bar at the top of the Bridge workspace. You may need to maximize your
Bridge window after you reset the workspace.
Resetting the workspace using the Workspace
drop-down menu.
3 Click once on IMG_1374.JPG, and look for the Metadata and Keywords panels in the
lower-right area of the Adobe Bridge workspace.
4 If Metadata is not in front, click on the Metadata panel now. In this panel, you see the
image data that is stored with the  le. Take a few moments to scroll through the data and
view the information that was imported from the digital camera that was used to take
the photo.
Click and drag the bar to the left of the Metadata panel farther to the left if you need to open up
the window.
5 Select the arrow to the left of IPTC Core to reveal its contents. IPTC Core is the
schema for XMP that provides a smooth and explicit transfer of metadata.
6 Here you see a series of pencils. The pencils indicate that you can enter information in
these  elds.
If you are not able to edit or add metadata information to a  le, it may be locked. Right-click on
the  le and choose Reveal in Explorer (Windows) or Reveal in Finder (Mac OS). In Windows,
right-click on the  le, choose Properties, and uncheck Read-only; in Mac OS, right-click on the
 le, choose Get Info, then change the Ownership and Permissions to Read and Write.
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