Update: Adding Descriptions to Digital Photos by Mike Ashenfelder
Last October I wrote about the importance – and the difficulty – of embedding descriptions into digital photos. As a test, I ended the article by asking readers to download a photo into which I embedded a quote from Benjamin Franklin. I also asked readers to let me know if they could see the quote and, if so, to name the program they used to display the quote.
Here are some results and conclusions from that test.
• Over 80 readers responded
• Almost everyone could see the quote
• Most of the respondents used photometadata freeware to display the quote
So, in general, the test confirms that there are few constraints — technical or financial — to displaying photometadata. Phone-based and standalone digital cameras can display some basic photometadata (though I don’t think it displays descriptions) but you can’t add text. And, of course, you can display and add metadata to a digital photo on a computer with the right software and a little effort.
Source: The Signal