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Video: Assigning copyright and metadata

Something you should know about posting your images on the Web: here I am inside Firefox looking at that big image from my Web site. I can right-click on it at anytime I like and choose Save Image As, or an equivalent command in another browser. So even though it's your intellectual property, were this your image, anybody else can download it to their machine and hand it off to another person and so on. The last thing you want to do there for is leave this image untagged, so nobody has any idea who created it in the first place.

Assigning copyright and metadata


Because, if it does land in the hands of someone of good will, who wants to go ahead and, let's say, republish it, then you want your contact information in there, so that they can get hold of you. You also want to include your copyright information, which ostensibly they would go ahead and reprint on their post. So what I want to do is show you how to metadata your images, so that all of your information is there. I'm going to switch back to Photoshop. I've saved that larger version of the image as 1770x780 photo.tif.

It's found inside the 12_for_Web folder. Now I'm going to go up to the File menu and I'm going to choose this command way down here, File Info, or you can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+I or Command+Shift+Option+I on the Mac. By the way, this very same command is available inside of the Bridge as well. The Bridge and Photoshop share this same metadata information, which gets embedded inside the file, so it becomes part of that file. So notice that I've gone ahead and filled out a lot of this stuff, Document Title is Pont du Gard. I am the author.

I went ahead and gave it a Description. Notice that I marked it as Copyrighted. You can mark it as Copyrighted or Public Domain. You can mark yours as Copyrighted as well, or if you just want to put it out there, you can mark it as Public Domain. Definitely go ahead and include a URL to your Web site. If you want to test it out to make sure that it works, you can click on this Go To URL button. It will automatically launch that site inside your default Web browser. All right! Now we're going to move on to other panels, because some of you may recall that in Photoshop CS4 and earlier, there was another blank right here where you entered your Copyright information, the name of the Copyright holder, in other words.

That's now included in a different panel. It's the same option it ever was. It just got shuttled around. So you can go over to IPTC, which is a standard of conventions from the International Press Telecommunications Council. So the idea is that this is the kind of information that working professionals would like to put inside their files. Now, you can fill out everything you want here. You could fill out your Address, City, State, etcetera, etcetera. I'm not going to do that in the case of this specific image. There is this Date Created item that I don't fully understand, because if you go over to Camera Data, this is the EXIF data that was captured by your digital camera.

You'll see that mine is telling me it was captured on November 6, 2009 at 6:59 a.m. Well, I wasn't really up at 6:59 a.m. I have to admit that I just didn't change the time on my camera when I flew to France. So it would have been eight hours after that. But why change your camera's time when you can just add eight hours, gosh! Then it also tells you all this other information like your Aperture's settings, the ISO, Focal Length and so on, pretty helpful stuff. So, I suppose, I could just say, well, it was November 6.

Go back here and change this to November 6th if I want to. All right! Now I'm going to go ahead and scroll down. What I want you to see is this item way down here, this Copyright Notice 2009 Type & Graphics, Inc. Boulder, CO 80303, which is where I'm at. Now, the hard thing to enter is the Copyright symbol itself. So I want you to see how that is done. I'm going to press the Enter key to nudge that down a line. On the Mac, it's very simple. It's Option+G, doesn't make any sense, but that's what it is, Option+G. On the PC, you have to dial in the character code.

You dial in character codes on the numeric keypad, while the Alt key is down. So what you do is you press-and-hold the Alt key. Then you dial in these numbers sequentially on the keypad, 0169 in sequence. Then release the Alt key. That gives you a Copyright symbol. So once again, press-and-hold Alt, dial 0169 on the keypad and release the Alt key. All right! I don't need those guys, but I want you to see how to make them. That's effectively it. Now you can fill out as much or as little of this stuff as you want to.

But I am a big fan of including the Copyright notice. I'm a big fan of including the author name over here in the Description area. I'm a big fan of including the URL. So those things at least need to be inside of your file. Then click OK in order accept, or, actually, here is another thing you can do. You can go ahead and save off a Template. So if you are going to use this File Info as the backbone for a bunch of other images, then go ahead and choose Export here. Call it something like My information, whatever you want. Then click Save.

Now, bear in mind though, that it's saving all this stuff, like The Great Roman Aqueduct Southern France, November 2009, which is not going to be applicable to that many images, or Pont du Gard, that kind of thing. So you may just want to create a basic template that includes only your name, your URL and your Copyright info. Then in the future, what you can do is you can just select it from this list. I could select My information and it would go ahead and populate the fields. In this case, when I choose the command, it's going to say, Hey! Do you want to clear the existing properties and replace them with template properties, which is usually what you do want to do? Because oftentimes, your digital camera will throw its name in all caps or something like that into the Description field.

You probably want to go and replace that, because that information is already in the camera data anyway. You don't need to credit your camera for taking the picture when actually you took the picture. But you could choose to select one of the other options if you want. Then click OK in order to accept that. In my case, I just replaced everything with the exact same thing. All right! That's it. Now in the future, you can just click on My information. It becomes a button, and then click OK to accept your changes, which I'll do. Now, I've got my image all metadated up and ready to go.

In the next exercise, we're going to use Save for Web to export a JPEG image.

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Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Deke McClelland

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  1. 39m 52s
    1. Welcome to Photoshop CS5 One-on-One
      1m 49s
    2. Making Photoshop your default image editor
      7m 43s
    3. Installing the DekeKeys keyboard shortcuts
      8m 10s
    4. Remapping Mac OS shortcuts
      7m 37s
    5. Installing the Best Workflow color settings
      4m 31s
    6. The color settings explained
      6m 54s
    7. Loading the CS5 color settings in Bridge
      3m 8s
  2. 53m 36s
    1. There is nothing you can't do
      2m 1s
    2. The power of Photoshop
      4m 43s
    3. Duplicating a layer
      4m 49s
    4. Liquifying an image
      4m 43s
    5. Adding a layer mask
      5m 54s
    6. Loading an alpha channel
      7m 42s
    7. Selecting with Color Range
      4m 10s
    8. Making a Hue/Saturation layer
      2m 53s
    9. Luminance blending
      7m 21s
    10. Mask density
      5m 9s
    11. Making a knockout layer
      4m 11s
  3. 51m 23s
    1. The best way to work
    2. Setting General preferences
      5m 33s
    3. Changing the pasteboard color
      5m 41s
    4. File handling, performance, and units
      7m 25s
    5. Touring the Photoshop interface
      11m 5s
    6. Creating and saving a workspace
      7m 21s
    7. Changing settings and updating the workspace
      6m 4s
    8. Resetting the preferences
      7m 33s
  4. 2h 46m
    1. The amazing Adobe Bridge
      1m 17s
    2. Making a new image
      5m 11s
    3. Opening an image
      7m 7s
    4. Opening and closing multiple images
      5m 24s
    5. Opening a problem image
      4m 23s
    6. Adding file information
      8m 37s
    7. Introducing Adobe Bridge
      7m 37s
    8. A whirlwind tour of Bridge
      7m 21s
    9. Adjusting the interface and thumbnails
      8m 18s
    10. Using the full-screen preview
      8m 5s
    11. Rotating images on their sides
      5m 38s
    12. Assigning star ratings and labels
      8m 40s
    13. Filtering thumbnails in the Contents panel
      9m 13s
    14. Moving, copying, and deleting files
      6m 34s
    15. Creating and assigning keywords
      6m 38s
    16. Searches and collections
      7m 3s
    17. Batch-exporting JPEG files
      8m 57s
    18. Batch-renaming
      7m 15s
    19. String substitution and regular expressions
      8m 50s
    20. Grouping images into stacks
      7m 21s
    21. Comparing images in Review mode
      5m 58s
    22. Playing images in a slideshow
      4m 49s
    23. Customizing and saving the workspace
      7m 17s
    24. Using Mini Bridge in Photoshop CS5
      8m 36s
  5. 1h 1m
    1. Learning to swim inside an image
    2. The tabbed-window interface
      5m 19s
    3. Arranging image windows
      4m 26s
    4. Common ways to zoom
      5m 31s
    5. New zoom tricks in Photoshop CS5
      4m 24s
    6. Hidden old-school zoom tricks
      4m 34s
    7. Scrolling and panning images
      4m 8s
    8. Viewing the image at print size
      6m 42s
    9. The Navigator and "bird's-eye" scrolling
      2m 56s
    10. Nudging the screen from the keyboard
      2m 39s
    11. Scroll wheel tricks
      3m 41s
    12. The Rotate View tool
      3m 36s
    13. Cycling between screen modes
      6m 17s
    14. Using the numerical zoom value
      6m 14s
  6. 1h 6m
    1. Imaging fundamentals
    2. What is image size?
      7m 45s
    3. The Image Size command
      6m 0s
    4. Selecting an interpolation option
      4m 56s
    5. Upsampling versus "real" pixels
      5m 22s
    6. The penalty of pixels
      5m 35s
    7. Print size and resolution
      7m 26s
    8. Downsampling for print
      6m 39s
    9. Downsampling for email
      7m 28s
    10. Options for upsampling
      8m 13s
    11. Better ways to make a big image
      6m 1s
  7. 44m 43s
    1. Frame wide, crop tight
      1m 2s
    2. Using the Crop tool
      8m 8s
    3. Fixing out-of-canvas wedges
      5m 31s
    4. Crop tool presets
      6m 53s
    5. Previewing the crop angle
      4m 24s
    6. The Crop command
      4m 47s
    7. Straightening with the Ruler tool
      4m 18s
    8. Cropping without clipping
      5m 1s
    9. Perspective cropping
      4m 39s
  8. 1h 41m
    1. Making drab colors look better
      1m 20s
    2. Brightness and contrast
      4m 10s
    3. Adjusting numerical values
      4m 26s
    4. Introducing adjustment layers
      5m 17s
    5. Editing adjustment layers
      2m 51s
    6. Saving adjustment layers
      4m 35s
    7. Adding a quick layer mask
      4m 23s
    8. Introducing the Histogram
      4m 34s
    9. Working with the Histogram panel
      6m 27s
    10. Using Color Balance
      7m 18s
    11. Introducing the Variations command
      4m 51s
    12. Luminance and saturation controls
      3m 54s
    13. Fading a static adjustment
      3m 21s
    14. How hue and saturation work
      4m 28s
    15. Rotating hues and adjusting saturation
      6m 4s
    16. Creating a quick and dirty sepia tone
      4m 42s
    17. Adjusting hues selectively
      5m 32s
    18. The Target Adjustment tool
      4m 24s
    19. Photoshop CS5 Target Adjustment enhancements
    20. Adjusting the color of clothing
      8m 44s
    21. Enhancing a low-saturation image
      4m 23s
    22. Refining saturation with Vibrance
      5m 1s
  9. 1h 57m
    1. Photoshop versus the real world
      1m 21s
    2. Meet the selection tools
      10m 26s
    3. Marking the center of an image
      4m 9s
    4. Drawing a geometric selection outline
      4m 45s
    5. Blurring a selection outline with Feather
      6m 8s
    6. Copy and paste versus drag and drop
      5m 31s
    7. Creating a graduated selection
      4m 29s
    8. Aligning one image with another
      4m 45s
    9. Accessing the Move tool on the fly
      3m 34s
    10. Invert and Match Colors
      5m 4s
    11. Matching colors selectively
      3m 52s
    12. Feathering and filling a selection
      5m 14s
    13. Dressing up a composition with effects
      5m 34s
    14. The incredible image rotation trick
      2m 18s
    15. The Magic Wand tool
      4m 12s
    16. Tolerance and other options
      7m 7s
    17. Grow, Similar, and Inverse
      5m 39s
    18. Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso
      7m 27s
    19. Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask
      8m 52s
    20. Saving and loading selections
      6m 14s
    21. Placing an image with a layer mask
      3m 23s
    22. Eliminating edge fringing
      7m 43s
  10. 1h 58m
    1. Brushing to correct
    2. How brushing works
      4m 52s
    3. Working with spacing
      7m 32s
    4. Changing size and hardness
      7m 45s
    5. The heads-up Color Picker
      7m 17s
    6. Flipping a mirror image
      3m 33s
    7. Setting the source for the History brush
      3m 42s
    8. Brightening details with the Dodge tool
      7m 49s
    9. Darkening details with the Burn tool
      3m 5s
    10. The Sponge tool
      4m 29s
    11. Backing off edits
      8m 4s
    12. Patching eye bags
      8m 57s
    13. Evening out flesh tones
      7m 23s
    14. Smoothing away whiskers
      7m 41s
    15. Reducing shadow noise
      7m 0s
    16. How healing works
      4m 40s
    17. The enhanced Spot Healing brush
      4m 52s
    18. Using the better Healing brush
      4m 23s
    19. Introducing the Clone Source panel
      3m 49s
    20. Cloning from one layer to another
      5m 30s
    21. Working with multiple sources
      4m 44s
  11. 1h 23m
    1. The layered composition
      1m 0s
    2. Making a new background layer
      6m 58s
    3. Working with "big layers"
      6m 24s
    4. Move, Duplicate, and Scale
      4m 11s
    5. Transforming a copy and repeat
      5m 15s
    6. Stacking order and eyedropping a layer
      5m 15s
    7. Adjusting multiple layers at once
      4m 22s
    8. Switching between layers
      4m 56s
    9. Making a digital star field
      5m 9s
    10. Blend mode and clipping mask
      4m 50s
    11. Dragging and dropping from your desktop
      4m 38s
    12. Black + Lens Flare = glow
      6m 16s
    13. Locking transparency
      5m 42s
    14. Adding gradient layers
      8m 12s
    15. Stacking an adjustment layer
      4m 12s
    16. Adding shadow and stroke
      6m 9s
  12. 1h 17m
    1. Outputting from Photoshop and Bridge
      1m 32s
    2. Printing an RGB composite
      5m 31s
    3. Customizing the subjective print file
      3m 15s
    4. Gauging print size
      5m 35s
    5. Scale, position, and page orientation
      5m 6s
    6. Three important printing curiosities
      4m 41s
    7. Introducing the Output options
      5m 34s
    8. Establishing a bleed
      5m 52s
    9. Using the Color Management options
      7m 21s
    10. Generating a PDF contact sheet
      6m 18s
    11. Creating a contact sheet template
      6m 8s
    12. Saving and opening a PDF contact sheet
      4m 18s
    13. Introducing the Web Gallery
      7m 53s
    14. Exporting and editing an HTML site
      3m 58s
    15. The Airtight Photocard site
      4m 56s
  13. 1h 9m
    1. Rules of the web
      1m 1s
    2. Introducing web graphics
      6m 59s
    3. A first look at Save for Web
      5m 47s
    4. Scaling a layered image versus a flat one
      7m 30s
    5. Incremental downsampling
      3m 1s
    6. Adding text, bar, and stroke
      4m 24s
    7. Assigning copyright and metadata
      6m 21s
    8. Comparing GIF, JPEG, and PNG
      4m 59s
    9. Determining the perfect JPEG settings
      6m 31s
    10. Saving metadata
      3m 52s
    11. Working with an unprofiled RGB image
      4m 35s
    12. Downsampling graphic art
      4m 49s
    13. Saving a GIF graphic
      6m 1s
    14. Antiquated GIF versus the better PNG
      4m 6s
  14. 1m 37s
    1. Until next time
      1m 37s

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