Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS- P8: If you're reading this book because you want to be told that digital really is better than film, look elsewhere. Those discussions tend to generate a lot more heat thanlight, andifyouaren't at least contemplatingshootingdigital for some or all of your work, this book isn't relevant. | 192 Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS Embed Private Metadata With thefields I ve created myself the Category Publishedln Print Published Online Unpublished I can embed the metadata in the image but it isn t searchable. It s viewable in the File Info Advanced panel under Adobe Photoshop Properties but it s only editable in my custom File Info panel or by using a text editor on the sidecar xmp file. However I never send out my raw images and any image derived from the raw has my metadata embedded directly in the file where it s safe from geeks with text editors rather than in a sidecar file. AskilMl programmer could remove the metadata but they d have to know to look for it in the first place so it s fairly Figure 6-14 shows a custom F i e Info panel developed by my good friend Seth Resnick. It s quite a bit more complicated than the first example and no I m not going to show you the code that created it Seth put in too much work for me to just give it away and he built this panel without the benefit of the documentation to which you ve been referred. I simply offer it as a useful illustrationof just how much you can accomplish with XMP. There are two significant points to note about this panel. The first is that by default without any user intervention a rights notice is embedded in every raw image that s opened in the File Browser notice that the Rights Management popup doesn t include none as an option. The second significant point is that the entries from the Rights Management popup are embedded in any files derived from the raw image in a form that s uneditable to anyone who isn t either a programmer or a possessor of the custom File Info panel the File Info panel is the secret decoder ring for this private metadata and offers the only reasonable means of removingor changing it. Making Images Smarter Metadata has been around in one form or another for a long time but in many ways it s still in its infancy. Having a standard in the form of XMP is one
