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Captions and Keywording

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Here's some advice on how to attach information to your images when sending them to magazines or stock photo agencies.

IPTC

Both caption and keyword text should be stored inside the image in the IPTC fields. IPTC is the industry standard method for attaching text to images for digital transmission and identification. This can be done using PhotoshopThe brand leader in digtal image manipulation program produced by Adobe Software. You Hoover the floor Google the Net and Photoshop your images! When we use Photoshop we mean any such program.. See under the File menu for File Info and enter subject details under Caption and keywords under Keywords

If you have Photoshop CS the Caption field is called 'description' for some reason best known to Adobe!

Caption

Bow of the "Funizuki" Destroyer - Chuuk.
© Jim Garland

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