Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop

Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop
Written by Steve Patterson. There’s no denying that the internet has brought us all closer together, and that it’s made this world of ours a much smaller place. It’s exciting to live in an age where anyone, anywhere, can instantly share their digital photos with family and friends, or if they choose, with millions of complete strangers, simply by emailing their photos or uploading them to personal or social media websites.If you’re a professional photographer, though, who earns a living from your images or uses them to attract new clients, uploading them to the web for all to see isn’t enough. You also need to make sure your contact and copyright information is included with each image so anyone who’s interested can see who owns the photo and how to contact you for more details.Fortunately, as we’ll learn in this tutorial, Photoshop’s File Info command makes it easy to embed this information directly in the image file itself so no matter where its journey through cyberspace may take it, your contact and copyright information will travel right along with it.Download our tutorials as print-ready PDFs! Learning Photoshop has never been easier!Here’s a photo I have open in Photoshop that I’d like to upload to the web:The original image.Before I do that, though, I want to add my contact and copyright information to the image. The easiest way to do that is with Photoshop’s File Info command which we can get to by going up to the File menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choosing File Info:Go to File > File Info.This opens the File Info dialog box. Details added to an image, like our name and copyright info, are what’s known as metadata, which simply means “additional information” about something. In this case, it’s additional information about our image. There’s lots and lots (and lots!) of metadata than can be included in an image file, which is why, if you look along the top of the dialog box, you’ll see a series of tabs with names like Description, IPTC, Camera Data, and so on. Each tab represents a different category of metadata, and each category has its own panel in the File Info dialog box. You can click on the tabs to switch between the panels (note that I’m using Photoshop CS5 here. If you’re using Photoshop CS3 or earlier, you won’t see the tabs. Instead, the category names will appear in a list down the left side of dialog box):The File Info dialog box. Each tab along the top represents a different metadata (information) category.For our purposes here, the only metadata category we need to worry about is the very first one, Description. Click on its tab in the top left corner to select it (or click on its name at the top of the list on the left of the dialog box if you’re using Photoshop CS3 or earlier):Select the Description category.The Description panel contains fields for entering all of our important information, like our name, a description of the image, keywords to help people find the image in a search, copyright details, and so on. The very first field at the top of the list, Document Title, isn’t terribly important but you may want to enter the file name of your image. In my case, the file name is “HDR_9185″ but of course yours will almost certainly be different:Enter the file name for your image in the Document Title field.Below the Document Title field is the much more important Author field. This is where you enter your name as the author of the image. Below that is the Author Title field. I usually enter “Photographer” if I was the person who actually took the photo, but you can enter a different job title or just leave it blank if you prefer. All you really need here is your name in the Author field:Enter your name in the Author field. The Author Title field is optional.Next, enter a description of the image in the Description field. Try to be as detailed as possible since the description can make it easier for people to find your image:Give your image a meaningful description.Next, move down to the Keywords field. This one is also very important because giving the image meaningful keywords will make it much easier for people to find it when searching for photos that contain one or more of those subjects. It will also make it much easier for you to find the image yourself in Adobe Bridge. Enter either a semicolon or a comma after each keyword to separate them from each other. A keyword can actually be made up of two or more words (like "weathered barn" or "high dynamic range"):Use meaningful keywords to describe the contents of your image.Next up is the Copyright Status option. By default, it’s set to Unknown. Click on the word Unknown, or on the small arrow to the right of the word, and choose Copyrighted from the list that appears. Keep in mind that simply claiming that your image is copyrighted isn’t the same as actually applying for a legal copyright, but it’s usually enough to keep most honest people from using the image without your permission:Change the Copyright Status option to Copyrighted.Once you’ve selected Copyrighted, enter your copyright information into the Copyright Notice field. You’ll usually want to include the copyright symbol followed by the year and then your name. To add the copyright symbol, on a PC, press and hold your Alt key and enter 0169 on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. On a Mac, it’s even easier. Just hold down the Option key and press the letter G on your keyboard:Enter your copyright info into the Copyright Notice field.Last but certainly not least is the Copyright Info URL field. Enter the URL of the website you want people to visit to find out more information about you and your work. Once you’ve entered the URL, it’s a good idea to click on theGo to URL button to the right of the field to make sure you’ve entered the website address correctly:Enter the URL of the website people should visit to find out more about you.Once you’ve entered all of your information and have double-checked everything to make sure it’s all correct, click on the OK button in the bottom right corner of the File Info dialog box to close out of it and accept the information:Click OK to accept the information.To permanently embed the new information with the image file, we need to save the image, which we can do by going up to the File menu and choosing Save. Once it’s been saved, you can close out of it. The next time you re-open the image in Photoshop and open the File Info dialog box (File > File Info), you’ll see all of your contact and copyright information displayed in the fields:Go to File > Save to permanently attach the information to the image file.And there we have it! That’s how easy it is to add your contact and copyright information to an image using the File Info command in Photoshop!

Panels in Adobe Photoshop

Panels in Adobe Photoshop


As I showed at the beginning of this chapter, keywording images can add value to any catalog. For professional photographers who sell images for a living, good keywording is essential for achieving maximum sales. For amateur photographers who are maintaining an archive of personal photographs, keywording can still add value in terms of making special photographs more easily accessible (see Figure 10.28.). It has taken a while to convince everyone of the importance of keywording, but now that many of us are shooting tens of thousands of photos each year, it is more important than ever now to do what we can to keep our photo catalogs manageable. So how much should you keyword? Professional colleagues of mine, such as Seth Resnick, claim that each image that’s supplied to a picture library should have at least 50 keywords attached if it is to achieve any sales success. Seth generally carries out careful research to look for as many terms and related topics as possible for each of the images he submits. He’ll consider checking for variations in spelling, as well as looking out for hot topic words that might be relevant to something he has just shot. If you are not focused on library sales then this kind of approach may seem like overkill. There is no point in overdoing things and the key is only to spend as much time on the process of keywording as you are likely to benefit from in the future through the time saved when carrying out a file search. Okay, so it’s hard for you to know exactly how much keywording is going to be necessary. I have to confess that I am still kind of catching up with the keywording of some of the older photos in my catalog, but I am at the stage now where every photo has at least one keyword term associated with it.


Figure 10.28. You don’t need to go overboard with your keywording, but adding a few keywords that are relevant can add significant value to each image you annotate. Even if it is just the photos you keep in a personal archive.

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Keywords can be used to describe anything you like. But don’t forget that there are also IPTC fields that can and should be used to enter data such as the location a photo was shot in. While keywords provide a single place for entering informational data, the fields in the IPTC data section are regarded as the formally correct place for entering such data. If you sell photos for a living it makes sense to follow industry conventions and make sure you fill out these sections rather than rely solely on keywording to do this.

You can add keyword metadata via the Import Photos dialog as you import your images (Figure 10.29) or you can add or edit the keywords later via the Keywording panel. Figure 10.30 shows how I have sorted some of the keywords in my Keyword List panel into a hierarchy of keyword categories (also referred to as a controlled vocabulary). In the Places keyword category there is a keyword subcategory called Europe and within that Norway, and within that Bygdøy peninsula. So the full keyword path here is: Bygdøy peninsula > Norway > Europe > Places. Note how you enter keyword metadata in this order placing the child keyword before the parent. This photo also contains the keyword Seascapes, which is a child of the parent keyword Nature subjects and the full keyword path here is: Seascapes > Nature subjects. You will find that it pays to establish a proper keyword hierarchy that suits the content of your library and give some careful thought as to how you wish to structure a controlled vocabulary.


Figure 10.29. You can add keywords at the time of import. In this example, I entered the relevant keywords into the Keywords field so that these would be applied to all the photos as they were imported. Lightroom offers to auto-complete a keyword if it recognizes that the word you are typing might belong to the keyword list.


Figure 10.30. Alternatively, you can go directly to the Keywording panel and type in the keyword or keywords you wish to assign to a selected photo (in the box where it says “Click here to add keywords”). In this example I typed in “Bygdøy peninsula > Norway > Europe > Places” to add the keyword “Bygdøy peninsula” with the desired hierarchy.

Three ways to add new keywords

As I just mentioned, you can add keywords as you import images into the catalog (Figure 10.29) or add and edit keywords via the Keywording panel (Figure 10.30). You can also add keywords to the Keyword List panel in anticipation of the keywords that will be needed (Figure 10.31). Once such a controlled vocabulary has been set up you can select an image you want to update, choose a keyword from the Keyword List panel, and click in the box to the left (Figure 10.34). This adds the chosen keyword to the selected photo. Whichever method you use, once a keyword has been added, it will from then on always appear listed in the Keyword List panel. But once the keywords are there, you can always rearrange them into a suitable hierarchy. After a keyword has been created, Lightroom can then auto-complete keywords for you as you start typing in the first few letters for a new keyword entry. Apart from making it quicker to enter new data, this helps you avoid duplicating keyword entries through careless spelling or typos. Lightroom also auto-assigns the correct hierarchy. For example, the next time I might choose to add the keyword seascapes, the seascapes keyword will be automatically applied to the image using the keyword path seascapes > Nature subjects (Figure 10.32). I’ll be coming back to this point later, but basically when you enter a keyword, Lightroom is able to auto-complete the keyword and at the same time knows to assign the correct keyword hierarchy. The only problem that arises is where a single keyword can have more than one context and therefore appears listed in more than one hierarchy.


Figure 10.31. You can also add keywords in advance. In this example, I right-clicked on the Norway keyword and chose Create Keyword Tag inside “Norway.” This opened the Create Keyword Tag dialog. I then added “Bygdøy peninsula” as a child of Norway.


Figure 10.32. In this example, the Bygdøy peninsula keyword is a subset of Places > Europe > Norway and the Seascapes keyword is a subset of Nature Subjects.


Figure 10.33. Here you can see the Edit Keyword Tag dialog for the keyword “car.” Under the Keyword Tag Options, all the boxes are checked, allowing keywords to be included on export, for all the containing keywords (such as “land transportation,” which is part of the keyword tag hierarchy), and to include the synonyms entered here when exporting.


Figure 10.34. When you roll the mouse over a keyword in the Keyword List panel, a check box appears to the left of the keyword. If you click in this box, you can add a tick mark, which means the keyword is added to the currently selected image or images. If you click the arrow to the right of the keyword count number, Lightroom filters the catalog to show all photos that share the same keyword.

Keeping metadata private

There is some metadata that you might wish to keep private and it is possible when creating new keyword tags or editing existing keywords to hide “sensitive” keyword content, such as personal attributes that you would not want others to see. For example, one might find it useful to use a keyword term such as: heavily manipulated > Private metadata. You could use this to annotate photos that had a lot of work done to them in Photoshop. It might not matter all that much for all your clients to see such a keyword tag, but some might prefer that this didn’t show up. This is just a tag that is useful for me and not relevant to include on export (because I may sometimes need to filter out image examples that have had a lot of work done to them in Photoshop). Figure 10.35 shows an example of an image of a holiday property, where one might want to keep the location metadata hidden. For example, if you were in the business of supplying location services to clients it wouldn’t really be in your best interests to reveal the exact location details within the metadata. This would apply to keeping any GPS data hidden as well, but that can now be addressed separately within the Export dialog (see page 414).


Figure 10.35. Here is an example an image where, in some instances, you might like to keep the location metadata private.

Synonyms: The hidden keywords

Within keywords it is possible to include synonyms (see Figure 10.33). Synonyms are keywords, too; they’re basically alternative terms that can be used in place of the main keyword, which may or may not overlap with other keyword terms. The key difference between synonyms and keywords is that synonyms, although they are searchable the same way as keywords, actually remain hidden from view in the Keywording List panel. This may seem odd, but there is a good reason for this as I’ll explain in the following paragraph. Basically, keeping synonyms hidden can help keep the Keyword list less cluttered.

In the Figure 10.33 example the keyword car uses the following hierarchy: car > automobile > land transportation > TRANSPORTATION. Using the keyword settings shown here, when any file using this keyword is exported the full keyword hierarchy would be included. However, there are other search terms that people might want to use when searching for cars, such as: auto, motor, or vehicle. Ultimately, any image tagged using the single keyword car, would be discoverable using any of the following search terms: car, automobile, land transportation, transportation, auto, motor, or vehicle. The benefit of using synonyms is that they allow you to include more potential keyword search terms within a single keyword in the keyword list, but without cluttering up the entire list with lots of different keywords that are essentially variations of a single keyword term. When creating keywords for locations, if it is important that other people find your photos there are good reasons to consider including foreign language versions of a name in order to reach a maximum audience. For example, English-speakers might say “Venice,” whereas the Italians will (correctly) say “Venezia.” When I was photographing in Scotland recently a lot of the places I photographed had both English and Gaelic names. Therefore, the Gaelic versions might be suitable for including as synonyms.

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Adobe Updates Creative Cloud with New Photoshop Features, Team Version, Digital Publishing Tools
Tuesday December 11, 2012 6:22 am PST by Eric Slivka
Following up on its announcement regarding Retina display support for Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6, Adobe today announced additional major upgrades to its Creative Cloud subscription service. The upgrades, which are currently exclusive to Creative Cloud subscribers, are headlined by a number of upgrades to Adobe's flagship Photoshop application.
- Immediate support for HiDPI (Retina) displays for Apple MacBook Pro. This feature was also made available to perpetual license customers as a free update.
- Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify.
- The ability to quickly export CSS code for text and objects, and import color swatches to easily design incredible websites.
- New workflow timesavers including Crop tool refinements.
- 3D enhancements including improved live (OpenGL) previews of shadow effects and additional control over illumination using 32-bit color picker to create glow effects.
- Conditional Actions that automatically select the appropriate Action based on user-defined rules, giving users enhanced image processing speed.
Creative Cloud has also been enhanced with a new version designed to support teams of users, updates to the Adobe Muse web design tools, a new Creative Cloud Connection desktop syncing app, and new training tools.


Finally, Adobe is promoting a demo of its Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition at its Create Now event today. The software helps designers create digital publications for the iPad using many of the same tools used by major publishers to bring their content to the App Store.

Adobe's Create Now event begins at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern and will be streamed live on the Creative Cloud Facebook page.

cloud text effect psd-Cloudify Text EffectBy Diego Sanchez in Photoshop,Tutorial

Cloudify Text EffectBy Diego Sanchez in Photoshop,Tutorial 

Note: In order to make this action work in any language, we need to take some steps using the menus (instead of shortcuts) so we can fully control the names of every single layer we make. We will also create a PSD template to start with, in order to work more comfortably.

1) Let´s start with the template. Go to File > New and set the name of the new document as “Template”, the width to 600 and height to 450 and click OK. Please note that you can set any width and height you wish, but I will be working in a 600 x 450 pixels canvas for you to have a better view on the tutorial screenshots.

2) Press “D” to reset the swatches. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient. Set the name to “Background Sky” and click OK.

3) In the new window, click over the gradient and select the first gradient. We do this on order to set both colors to 100% opacity.

4) Double click over the small black square, and in the new window set the color to #adbcd6. Click OK. Now, double click over the small white square, and in the new window set the color to # 4a6cba. Click OK. Click OK once again. In the last window, set the Style to Linear, the Angle to 90º, the Scale to 100% and be sure to have Align with Layer checked. Click OK.

5) Now, you should have a document like this.

6) Before proceeding with the action, we need to provide a text layer for the user to start with; so hit the “T” on your keyboard to select the Text Tool. Set the typeface to Sansumi-UltraLight, the size to 300pt, the Anti-aliasing method to Sharp, the text alignment to Center and the color to white (#ffffff). Click over the canvas and type “Y”.

Note: to change the text color, simply click over the color rectangle and select the desired color in the new window. Click OK.

Next, click over the layer name in the layers panel and set the name to “TEXT”.

Go to File > Save and save it to your desired location.

7) Now that we have our base file ready, it is time to make the assets we need to make the action. These assets are the brushes. Hit the “B” on your keyboard in order to select the brush tool, and now open the brush window: Go to Window > Brush and click over the New Brush icon.

 Set the name to “300” and be sure to have the”Capture Brush Size in Preset” checked. Click OK.

9) Under Brush Tip Shape, apply the following values:

10) Under Shape Dynamics, apply the following values:

11) Under Texture, apply the following values:

If you do not have the “clouds” texture loaded, click over the texture thumbnail, and in the new textures window, click on the arrow next to the thumbnails. From the dropdown list, select “Texture Fill” and click OK. Now that you have the textures loaded, select “clouds”.

12) Under Transfer, apply the following values:

13) Finally, be sure to have checked Airbrush and Smoothing.

14) Now that we have made or brush, we must save this values to a Tool´s Preset file (TPL). To do so, and with our brush tool and settings still selected, click over the brush icon in the tools palette. From the dropdown thumbnails list click over the “New” icon. Set the name to “300” and be sure to uncheck the “Include Color” option. Click OK.

Now, our brush is available in our Tools Preset Panel.

15) With the base file ready and our assets created, it is time to make the action. First, close all the opening documents and open “Template.psd” (the file we´ve just created). In the Layers panel, click over an empty space in order to have no layers selected.

16) If you do not have the Actions Panel visible, go to Window > Actions. Click on the Create New Set icon and set the name to Cloudify. Click OK.

As you can see, now we have our Cloudify Action Set created, but we still need to create the action file, so let´s do that.

17) In the Actions Panel, click over the the Create New Action Icon, and set the name to 300. Click Record. From now on, every single step we make will be recorded into the action, so be sure to follow the instructions exactly as shown.

18) Press “D” on your keyboard to reset the color swatches and click over the TEXT layer in the Layers Panel. Notice how these two steps are being recorded in the Actions Panel.

19) Go to Layer > Type > Create Work Path.

20) Go to Layer > New > Layer and set the name to “1”. Click OK.

21) Press “B” on your keyboard to select the brush tool. Click over the brush icon in the tool´s palette and from the dropdown menu select the brush we have made “300”.

22) Press “X” on your keyboard to switch Foreground and Background colors (this will make White our Foreground Color).

23) Press “P” on your keyboard to select the Pen Tool and right click (Control+click on Mac) over the canvas. From the dropdown menu select Stroke Path. Be sure to have Brush as the selected Tool and uncheck “Simulate Pressure”. Click OK.

24) Go to Layer > New > Layer and set the name to “2”. Click OK.

25) Press “X” on your keyboard to switch Foreground and Background colors (this will set Black as Foreground Color).

26) Press “P” on your keyboard to select the Pen Tool and right click (Control+click on Mac) over the canvas. From the dropdown menu select Stroke Path. Be sure to have Brush as the selected Tool and uncheck “Simulate Pressure”. Click OK.

27) We will repeat the last 3 steps one more time to give our clouds more realism. Go to Layer > New > Layer and set the name to “3”. Click OK.

28) Press “X” on your keyboard to switch Foreground and Background colors (this will set White as our Foreground Color).

29) Press “P” on your keyboard to select the Pen Tool and right click (Control+click on Mac) over the canvas. From the dropdown menu select Stroke Path. Be sure to have Brush as the selected Tool and uncheck “Simulate Pressure”. Click OK.

30) Now that the main steps are made, it´s time for some adjustments. First, hide the layer “TEXT” by clicking over the eye´s icon in the layers panel.

31) Select the layer “2” and bring down the opacity to 25%.

32) Finally, click the STOP icon in the actions panel to finish recording the action.

33) Now that we have our assets and action created, let´s see a practical example on how to use it. First, close all the opening documents and open “Template.psd”. Go to Image > Canvas size and set a Width of 1500px and click OK. As you will notice, the background sky is filled thanks to our “Background Sky” layer made with Gradient Fill.

34) Press “T” on your keyboard to select the text tool, and type “LAYERS” in the TEXT layer.

35) Now, go to your Actions Panel, select the action named “300” inside the Cloudify group and press PLAY.

36) And that´s the end of the Cloudify tutorial.