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How To Add Metadata to Your Photos in Photoshop
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Towards The Summit | Climbing Mount Kinabalu | Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo I know that most photographers are too busy to care about Metadata, some of you maybe haven’t heard about it or know about it but simply doesn’t know what it’s function or how Metadata can be any good to you. Metadata is a set of standardized information about a file, such as author name, resolution, color space, copyright, and keywords applied to it. For example, most digital cameras attach some basic information to an image file, such as height, width, file format, and time the image was taken. You can use metadata to…
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Photography | What is EXIF Data? | What Can You Learn From Photo EXIF Data
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer and His Camera | My Son Actually First of all, what is EXIF, what it stand for? EXIF stand for Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used widely by digital camera. EXIF was created by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA). Version 2.1 of the specification is dated June 12, 1998, and the latest, version 2.3 dated April 2010, was jointly formulated by JEITA and CIPA. Though the specification is not currently maintained by any industry or standards organization, its use by camera manufacturers is nearly universal. The metadata tags defined in the Exif standard cover a broad spectrum: Date…