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                <title>Comment on [Upload Annotate and Share Photos with PictureSync by Jacob]</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:03:07 -0700</pubDate>
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                    Each standard was historically designed for a specific purpose and thus had little or no flexibility. EXIF was for camera-data. IPTC was designed for news agency captioning…

Picasa actually transparently writes IPTC data to your files which is great, it means you can open them in other applications and not loose your annotations. This compares really badly with iPhoto which doesn't do anything. But Picasa also writes a bunch of XML into one of the fields which is the last thing a user wants to see in another app!

XMP has been designed to be extensible from the outset, and is a real winner, but is going to take time for developers to adopt. Vista will include support both, and will only write IPTC if it is already present.

At the end of the day it all depends on your workflow. So long as every stage in your process works with the others (which they probably don't!), you don't need to know about the underlying mechanisms (except for future portability). Some people only need an integrated organisation and annotation application, others prefer the more freeform approach of a stand-alone annotation tool. It's only when you want to move your data that the compatibility issues arise, and that's what PictureSynd is out to provide a solution for, in addition to providing easy access to 'compatible' annotation tools that generally were only available in 'pro' applications.

PS: in r14 you can now tab from the caption field.
                    
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                <title>Comment on [Upload Annotate and Share Photos with PictureSync by Andy Atkinson]</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:38:09 -0700</pubDate>
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                    Hi Jacob.  Thanks for the update on XMP/IPTC data.  It's unfortunate that applications and photo sharing services can't agree on more standards, EXIF/IPTC/XMP, Picasa on Windows, iPhoto on OS X, everything is different and very confusing for a newcomer.  It's difficult to recommend "one solution" to friends and family.

I also want to dig into some of the annotation tools you recommend on this page [IPTC for OS X page](http://holocore.com/?IPTC-OSX).  I've also added [your blog](http://holocore.com/weblog/) to my RSS reader and will be sure to try out the Windows version of PictureSync when that becomes available.  Thanks!

                    
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                <title>Comment on [Upload Annotate and Share Photos with PictureSync by Jacob]</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:29:35 -0700</pubDate>
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                    Hi Andy, thanks for the review! It's good to know that you're finding it useful as a primary annotation tool, something as you note, it is still only really in the tranistionary stages of becoming.

You can jump straight into Fullscreen mode by double-clicking a picture in the list, no need to use the menu. In general I would suggest that you select a batch of photos, use the drawer to enter annotations that apply to all of them, then go through photos one by one. This is why (for example) the country field doesn't appear in fullscreen because it's more likely to be applied to a batch of photos.

Geocoding (latitude/longitude as both read and write with Google Earth integration) has just been added to the latest beta, but the name<->location lookup functions are not yet implemented.

I should point out that most photo-sharing services do not read XMP, and only a few read the older non-extensible IPTC data--but PictureSync writes both. Also PictureSync actually uploads all the annotations separate to the file, thus the photo host does not need to read the IPTC/XMP. (Flickr does both—which may be annoying but can be avoided by choosing remove annotations in PictureSync's preferences).

More to come!
                    
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