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Chapter 3: Manage mode

Use the thumbnail hover icons to tag, rate and add color labels to your images. Alternatively you can display these setting

in the Properties pane by clicking Tools | Options | Properties Pane and selecting Show Tagged, Rating, and Color

Labels.

Metadata tab

The Metadata tab displays the rating, category, IPTC, EXIF and ACDSee metadata stored with a photo. The ACDSee metadata fields

are available for you to enter the caption for your photographs as well as date, author, notes and keywords. IPTC information is

automatically embedded into your image, while ACDSee Metadata is not embedded in your files, but instead is held in the database.

ACDSee Metadata can be embedded into all your files (or just selected ones) by clicking the Tools | Embed ACDSee Metadata

command.

The IPTC data fields provides a standard means for entering and storing information about your photographs such as description,

creator, and copyright information. ACDSee supports fields defined in IPTC Core 1.1.

The EXIF data fields hold information captured by your camera such as shutter speed, camera model and GPS information.

Certain EXIF fields are no longer visible by default. The EXIF Artist, Copyright, Image Description, and Date/Time Original fields are

automatically modified when their matching IPTC fields are modified (see table below). This change reflects the recommendations of

the Metadata Working Group (MWG). If you need to have these fields visible in the EXIF section you can adjust your settings by

clicking Tools | Options | Properties Pane and clicking the Manage Metadata Views button.

Matching IPTC and EXIF fields

IPTC EXIF

Description writes to Image Description

Creator writes to Artist

Date Created writes to Date/Time Original

When ACDSee parses metadata from a file, the contents of the field is displayed without mapping.

Categories tab

The Categories tab displays a tree of categories. The Category tree context-menu (right+click) allows you to add and delete

categories and sub-categories. You can create category sets to quickly categorize your files.

File tab

The File tab displays detailed file information and image attributes for a selected file or files. You can set or change the Read-Only

and Hidden properties of a file or folder, and view a summary of any EXIF information contained in a file.

Embedding ACDSee Metadata into files

If you have metadata in your files and they are copied, moved, or renamed, outside of ACDSee 14, the link between the file

and the database will be broken, but you can rebuild the database using the embedded data in the file.

ACDSee 14 uses XMP to embed ACDSee Metadata into each file. Only some file formats and file extensions support XMP.

These include GIF, JPEG, DNG, PNG, and TIF. In the case of these file formats, the ACDSee Metadata is embedded inside the

file and so you can rename or move the file outside of ACDSee 14 and still be able to retrieve the ACDSee Metadata. For

formats that currently do not support XMP, including RAW, PSD, ABR, the ACDSee Metadata is written to a sidecar file that

is stored in the same folder as its file. Because a sidecar file is separate from the file itself, you need to rename or move

them together, or you could lose the ACDSee Metadata permanently.

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