- Create a metadata template. Click the icon in
the top-right corner of the Metadata panel to display
the panel menu, and choose Create Metadata Tem-
plate. In the top field of the dialog box that appears,
give your template a name like “French Vacation,” as
shown in Figure 1-31. If we’re going to collect these
annotations to use for the entire folder’s worth of
images, we’ll need to make the template a little more
general (the specific description has to go). So turn
on the check boxes next to only those things that
apply to the entire set, namely Keywords, Author,
Author Title, Copyright, and Copyright Info URL.
Then click Save. - Select the other images. Once back inside the Bridge,
press Ctrl+A (or �-A) to select all the thumbnails.
Then Ctrl-click (�-click) the Pont du Gard.jpg image
to deselect it. Figure 1-31.
Figure 1-32.- Apply the template. Click the icon in the
top-right corner of the Metadata panel and
choose Replace Metadata→French Vacation.
Just like that, the Bridge updates the infor-
mation in the Metadata panel for all selected
images, as in Figure 1-32.
PeaRl Of WISDOmPhotoshop has now applied your IPTC information, your
keywords, and the copyright status to all the images
inside the Provence folder. And unlike sort order, stacks,
and thumbnails (see “The Bridge and Its Slippery Cache,”
page 13), metadata and keywords are permanently
appended to the image file without any additional
saving. To confirm this, click any one of the thumbnails.
Scroll to the top of the Metadata panel and look at the
Date File Modified item in the File Properties section
(circled in Figure 1-32). The date should be today; the
time, just a few seconds ago. (Pay no attention to the
time in the image; writers keep strange hours.) You
can copy these images anywhere you want and your
changes to the metadata will travel with them.
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