From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge
- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques, The Stuck At Home Edition. No crew, just you and me. I like to think of it as Deke's Techniques one-on-one. Today I'm going to show you how to create the perfect metadata template. So imagine that everything you put out there, whether it's a photograph, a drawing, or a multipage design, identifies you as its author, marks the work as copyrighted, names you or your company as the copyright holder, and directs people to your website, which is great, but the way it works by default it can end up messing up a few properties, including a couple of creation dates. In other words, it changes too much metadata. What I'm about to show you avoids those pitfalls and it works inside Adobe Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Four powerhouse programs, one simple solution. Here, let me show you exactly how it works. All right, so we're going to start things off inside Adobe Bridge, at which point I've got this file right here called harborseal.dng, so it's a raw DNG file. It looks like this, for what it's worth, and in order to fill the screen with the image I just tapped the space bar. Anyway, I'll go ahead and hit the escape key so that you can see that I've applied some development and crop settings inside camera raw, as indicated by these icons in the top right corner of the thumbnail. I've also assigned some metadata in the form of the author name, copyright, and website, and to see what that looks like you want to go up to the file menu and choose the file info command, which also exists, by the way, inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. So all four of these programs, including Bridge, include this command, and it looks absolutely the same. And so notice that I'm looking at the contents of the basic panel, and I've set the author to my name. I've gone ahead and set the copyright status to copyrighted. I've entered some copyright information right here, and I've also entered the URL for my website, deke.com. All right, so let's say I want to assign all of this metadata to every single image, or piece of artwork, or design, that I put out there. Then you want to drop down to this guy right here, template folder, it's truncated, and if you can't see it, by the way, then you can go ahead and resize the dialogue box. In any event I'll click on that guy and then choose export, and this'll allow me to export the metadata as an independent XMP file that I can assign to other files in the future. And just so we can keep track of it, I'm going to leave it set to the name of that image right there, harbor seal, and then I'll just go ahead and click the save button in order to save off that XMP file. All right, I want you to notice one other thing right here. Notice the creation date is set to November 5th of the year 2019, just remember that, because that's an important bit of information that you don't want to lose. We also have the date that the file was last modified. All right, so just remember November 5th, 2019. I'm going to cancel out because I don't want to make any changes to the metadata. That will still maintain that exported file, by the way, and now I'll go ahead and enter this folder right here, Antarctica 2020, which contains a bunch of additional raw image files that I shot in Antarctica. Now these don't have to be raw images, by the way, or images at all. Any kind of file that you create can include metadata. So I'll just go ahead and select this guy right here, and then I'll press control + I, or command + I on a Mac. I want you to notice that the creation date for this file is February 10th of the year 2020, so about three months later. Also notice that all these fields are blank and the copyright status is set to unknown. All right, I want to go ahead and assign that XMP file that I just created, so I'll click on template folder once again and then choose harbor seal, at which point you'll see these import options. You can clear all the existing properties and replace them with template properties. Obviously that would be madness. You don't want to wreck the file. You can keep the original metadata but replace matching properties from the panel, which may seem like a good idea, and so I'll go ahead and click OK. Notice it goes ahead and adds the author information as well as the copyright status and notice and the URL. However, it also messes up the creation date, which is now set to November 5th of the year 2019, which is absolutely wrong. The thing is you're probably not even going to notice that because you'll be so happy that you got your author and copyright information in there, and I must admit, I, for one, did not notice this for years. So I've been messing us a bunch of files over time, at which point all you have to do is click OK in order to do the damage. And notice up here in the edit menu the undo command is dimmed. All right, so what's the solution? Well, one thing you can do is select a different file, like so, and then go to the file menu and choose the file info command, and then go ahead and once again choose harbor seal right there, and this time select the final option: Keep original metadata but append matching properties from the template, and then click OK, at which point the creation date is still February 10th, 2020, which is great. So I'll just go ahead and click OK. A problem arises, however, if you select and modify multiple files here inside Bridge. So let's go ahead and say I select these two, so I'm going to click on one, shift-click on the other, and then again go to the file menu and choose the file info command, and then I'll go ahead and once again choose harbor seal as my metadata template, keep original metadata but append, instead of replace, the matching properties from the template, click OK, and now we're seeing all this good stuff right here, but also creation date is set to multiple values. It's not actually true. I'm just going to click OK so I can show you what happens if I now return to the file menu and choose the file info command. Both files now have a creation date of November 5th, 2019, which again is absolutely wrong. So what do you do about that problem? Well, there's the Adobe certified solution here inside Bridge, and then there's another workaround that I'll show you in a followup movie. But first I'm going to go back to the folder that contains the harbor seal there. I'll go ahead and select it, and then I'll go to the tools menu and choose create metadata template. And that will allow me to select the individual attributes that I want to modify. So instead of doing a big dump of all the metadata that Bridge sees, I'll just go ahead and select creator, which is set to me, then I'll scroll down to date created and I'll just select that data and get rid of it and then tab down. Now what's going to happen is you will have selected that attribute. You don't want to, so just deselect it. Don't really have to get rid of it before you deselect it, but it makes me feel less nervous about things, and then I'll go ahead and turn on copyright notice and copyright status. Now you may notice what's missing here is the URL, in my case deke.com, it's just not here. All right, now I'm going to scroll down to this item, camera data exif, and notice that I've got that bad data in there once again. I'm going to select it and get rid of it. As soon as I press the tab key, however, I go ahead and select that attribute, go ahead and turn it off, and so we should just have three properties selected, as we're seeing down here at the bottom of the dialogue box, then click save. And actually I made a mistake there. I'm going to return to the tools menu and choose create metadata. Notice we have this template name option right here, which I left set to untitled. So presumably you'd want to go ahead and change that name before you click the save button, but I've already made that mistake. And so what I'm going to do is just double-click on that Antarctica 2020 folder again, and then I'll grab these files right here. I'll click on this first one in the second row, at least in my case, and shift-click on this guy so that I have a total of four files selected, and then you could go to the tools menu and choose append metadata followed by untitled, that's one way to work. The other is to just go back to the file info command, which I can get here in Bridge by pressing control + I, or command + I on a Mac, and then I'd go down to template folder and choose untitled. Very bad name for a metadata template, but still, that's what I got. I'll go ahead and select this final option once again and then click OK. We're still seeing creation and modification dates that have multiple values, but notice if I click OK to accept that change and then I'll go ahead and select any one of these files and press control + I, or command + I on a Mac, you can see that the creation date has survived. It's still set to February 10th of the year 2020, which is the actual accurate information. The one downside is that I don't have my copyright info URL because it wasn't saved along with that metadata template file. And so the moral of the story is rather than clicking on template folder and choosing export from inside the file info dialogue box, whether you're working in Bridge or Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign, the preferred method, I'll cancel out here, is to go up to the tools menu and choose the create metadata template command here inside Adobe Bridge. All right, now if you're a member of LinkedIn Learning I have a followup movie in which I show you how to maintain a lean, mean metadata machine using nothing more than a text editor. If you're looking forward to next week I'll be showing you how to use my favorite new feature in Photoshop 2020 to create this fantastical, otherworldly, selectively stretched panorama. Deke's Techniques each and every week. Keep watching.
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Contents
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860 Using an iPad as a Sidecar drawing tablet11m 37s
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861 Introducing Adobe Fresco for the iPad15m 27s
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862 Adobe Fresco paints halftone patterns9m 37s
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863 Live brushes in Adobe Fresco9m 36s
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864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco5m 54s
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865 Masking layers in Adobe Fresco9m 47s
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866 Repurposing and inverting masks5m 25s
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867 Vector brushes in Adobe Fresco9m 7s
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868 Opening Fresco art in Photoshop8m 32s
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869 Customizing the Auto Color command6m 51s
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870 Camera Raw 12: Panoramas with fill edges9m 38s
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871 Developing your panorama in Camera Raw5m 53s
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872 Healing with Clone Source plus Diffusion8m 8s
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873 The improved Simplify command in Illustrator 20207m 25s
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874 Filling in any post-Simplify gaps4m 27s
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875 Posterizing colors, in the style of "Hair"11m 54s
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876 Recoloring art with the Paint Bucket tool5m 34s
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878 Adjusting your poster art dynamically6m 15s
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877 Posterizing colors nondestructively9m 8s
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879 Hiding the Filmstrip in Camera Raw4m 35s
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880 Making an awful photograph awesome10m 14s
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881 What if Rembrandt had painted sea lions?4m 43s
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882 Recolor a freeform gradient in Illustrator4m 58s
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883 Recoloring a gradient using a color group3m 24s
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884 Faking a GoPro over-under shot10m 20s
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885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw4m 41s
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886 Drawing a 3D metal star in Illustrator14m 25s
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887 Rendering the 3D star in heavy metal5m 51s
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888 Creating a Wonder Woman 1984 poster effect9m 5s
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889 Creating the Wonder Woman displacement map15m 5s
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890 Masking your Wonder Woman11m 39s
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891 Creating a metadata template in Bridge9m 24s
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892 Streamlining a multi-use metadata template9m 29s
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893 The Photoshop 2020 freeform Warp enhancements12m 32s
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894 Applying a freeform Warp to a Smart Object7m 54s
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895 Rescuing a frame from a GoPro movie7m 49s
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896 Filling gaps with Content-Aware Fill7m 5s
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897 Two images are better than one13m 8s
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898 Blending images with a hand-drawn vignette4m 44s
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899 Creating a photographic painting12m 37s
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900 Drawing a gradient sphere as a 2D shape9m 49s
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901 Turning a sphere into a colorful pool ball7m 51s
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902 Changing a pool ball from solid to stripes8m 22s
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903 Rotate versus Transform Each in Illustrator9m 36s
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904 Recoloring your pool balls8m 20s
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905 Drawing a pool cue in Illustrator15m 43s
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906 Rotating with precision accuracy7m 28s
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907 Repeating a face so it shares a common eye11m 20s
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908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop5m 42s
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909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips6m 8s
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910 Flipping a face to create new identities9m 8s
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911 Hand painting a symmetrical layer mask4m 18s
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912 Two ways to colorize with gradients6m 9s
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913 Two ways to mask gradient effects6m 40s
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914 Lantern tile: Type 1, onion7m 53s
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915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional6m 33s
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916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop4m 30s
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917 Quickly change the number of steps in Illustrator8m 22s
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918 Creating a blend inside a blend7m 44s
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919 Reversing the stacking order in Illustrator4m 32s
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920 Turning a blend into a repeating pattern12m 16s
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921 Recoloring a blended pattern5m 8s
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922 Precisely sizing any polygon in Illustrator9m 19s
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923 Creating a beveled, equilateral triangle11m 46s
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924 Turning a triangle into a Mercedes star9m 7s
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925 Adding a ring around the Mercedes star7m 57s
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926 Precisely sizing stars in Illustrator10m 20s
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927 Let's review that star technique5m 25s
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928 Creating real artwork with basic shapes9m 55s
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929 Making a face of triangles in Illustrator10m 18s
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930 Painting with gradients and translucency10m 34s
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931 More advanced gradients in Illustrator6m 52s
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932 Combining translucent vectors with a photo5m 30s
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933 Using the dynamic Free Distort filter9m 3s
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934 Combining dynamic effects in Illustrator6m 4s
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935 Creating a Halloween cat’s eye in Illustrator14m 35s
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936 Combining multiple gradient fills and effects8m 28s
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937 Tracing a photo with primitives in Illustrator11m 31s
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938 Halftone pattern and Zig Zag in Illustrator13m 5s
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939 Adding dynamic highlights to your cat’s eye10m 29s
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940 Blending reptile-like scales in Illustrator13m 42s
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941 Shading to your cat’s eye in Illustrator10m 53s
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942 Shading with variable-width strokes9m 10s
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943 Turning your cat’s eye into a dragon’s eye10m 40s
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944 Clearing the Photoshop Home screen5m 5s
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945 Hiding a single Home screen thumbnail3m 29s
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946 Clearing the Illustrator Home screen4m 4s
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947 A new way to unlock stuff in Illustrator5m
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948 Another way to unlock stuff in Illustrator2m 47s
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949 The new Line tool in Photoshop 202110m 43s
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950 Fixing a broken candy cane pattern4m 58s
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951 Creating a candy cane rhinoceros in Photoshop10m 4s
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952 Warping a pattern around an object4m 2s
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953 Adding some rippling, reflective ice shadows8m 35s
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