Iptc - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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IPTC

Another type of metadata is referred to as IPTC (International

Press Telecommunications Council). IPTC is an organization,

and the standard they developed for common digital photo

metadata was originally named DNPR (Digital Newsphoto

Parameter Record). For the purposes of this eBook, I'll refer to

it as IPTC, as do almost all software programs.

Like EXIF data, the IPTC metadata is stored with the photo file,

in this case using Adobe's XMP framework. An IPTC-aware

program is required to show and edit the IPTC metadata. If

you shoot photos for news organizations or major

publications, you need to be aware of this data and have

some way of entering it, as most of them require it to be in

place with photo submissions—it's become the primary

method by which news organizations track captions and

photographer credits. IPTC has defined a common set of

coding guidelines, but you should also check with the

publication you're working with, as they may have their own

specific standards for using the individual fields, as well.

Though the D300 doesn't create any IPTC metadata on its

own, many software programs allow you to add it to your

D300 files, including Nikon Transfer. Nikon Transfer's image

transfer function also has a setting that allows you to copy

some basic EXIF data into IPTC fields, which I recommend

using. I'll deal with that in the section on the Nikon software

in the companion Introduction to Nikon Software eBook you

received with this Complete Guide.

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