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Cameras that support IPTC data provide a way to store text data in raw images. This data is useful to photographers who transmit images for publication and want to provide information such as time, location, caption, credit, and copyright notices.

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Editing IPTC Information

Bibble accesses the IPTC data associated with an image and provides an interface for editing the data. Bibble saves IPTC data in a settings file. When the image is output, the IPTC data in the settings file is merged with the output file.

To edit IPTC data:

1. | From the File menu, click Browse.

2. | Click File Browser and navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to open.

3. | Click the thumbnail for the image whose IPTC you want to adjust.

4. | From the Edit menu, click Edit IPTC Info.

5. | In the IPTC dialog box, enter data in the text fields (or use the drop down menu to select a value).

Note: many of the text fields include a drop-down menu that holds common data entries for the given field.

1. | Click Save to write the ITPC data to a text file with a .bii file extension.

2. | In the Save IPTC Information dialog box, navigate to the folder that you want to contain the IPTC data file.

3. | In the File name field, type a name for the .bii data file.

4. | Click Save.

Adding and Removing Field Menu Options

Bibble's IPTC data text fields include drop-down menus that hold often-used data entries. You can add entries to the menu as needed.

To add options to an IPTC data field menu:

1. | In the IPTC dialog box, type the entry you want to add as an option to the drop-down menu into the text field.

2. | Click the plus icon next to a data field.

The information you typed is saved as a menu option.

To remove options from an IPTC data field menu:

1. | In the IPTC dialog box, open the drop-down menu for the text field that contains information you want to remove.

2. | Click the option that you want to remove.

3. | After the option displays in the text field, click the minus icon next to the data field.

The entry is removed from the list of menu options.

Working with Keywords

IPTC data can contain keywords associated with an image that make it easier to find when performing a search. If you have common, often-used keywords that you associate with your images, you can add these keywords to Bibble's master list to simplify the process of applying keywords to images.

To add words to the master keyword list:

1. | Under Keywords, in the keywords field, type the keyword that you want to add to the master list.

2. | Click the plus icon below the list field.

The keyword is added to the list field.

To remove words from the master keyword list:

1. | Under Keywords, in the keywords list field, click the keyword that you want to remove from the master list.

2. | Click the minus icon below the master list field.

The keyword is removed from the master list field.

To apply keywords from the master keyword list to an image:

• | Under Keywords, in the keywords list field, double-click the keyword that you want to apply to the image.

The keyword is added to the keyword list associated with the image.

Loading Saved IPTC Data from a File

When you use the IPTC interface in Bibble to edit the data, your changes are saved to a file. If the data saved in the file applies to numerous images, you can load the data file to populate the IPTC data fields.

To load previously saved IPTC data and apply it to the current image:

1. | From the File menu, click Browse.

2. | Click File Browser and navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to open.

3. | Click the thumbnail for the image whose IPTC you want to adjust.

4. | From the Edit menu, click Edit IPTC Info.

5. | In the IPTC dialog box, click Load.

6. | In the Load ITPC Information dialog box, select the ITPC data file (*.bii) you want to load and click Open.

Bibble associates the data from the saved file to the selected image. To customize the ITPC data for the current image, edit the data and click Save.