If I’m going to be happy with PhotoLab, at least in the short term, I will need to find a front-end application that can offer metadata presets. Photo Mechanic seems like overkill and other programs I’ve looked into off photo editing, which is extra baggage.
What application do you use, or would you suggest?
You didn’t ask me but i use this its free if you have a account by adobe.
I am dabbling with that now. It looks as if PhotoLab won’t notice the changes to metadata until I tell it to read metadata from the file. This is even though I have the preference to keep XMP data synced on.
Perhaps it will work at least until DxO adds metadata presets to PhotoLab (I’m sure hoping in v7).
It updates when you select the image in the filmstrip of dxo.
I have often bridge and dxo open at the same time.
GPS from google is copy pastable in dxo but not in bridge. (type of writing i think.)
So that i manual push out.
Keywords i change in bridge.
IPTC i am changing in bridge because well bridge is in dutch wile dxo is in englisch.
It can be a surprise which field is filled in in bridge by dxo.
Colors and stars are from my culling app Fast Raw Viewer 2.0 which produces a xmp in adobe-style and those colortags are sins this year also supported by dxo.
So work flow is
Open folder in FRV, cull all bad one’s out. Give star-rating to usable images so i know which are first, second and last in row of keepers attention, use the collor tags as burst, bracket, groups tagging, so i know which are one of many almost the same or part of a sequence.(stacking)
Then tag and template iptc add some info if needed in the fields.
Open dxo find the new folder
Start editing with help from the by FRV color and stars filled in info.
If i make a virtual copy other then a tryout of something (which i often delete when done.) i use bridge iptc field editor to write in the why and how for vc1,2,3,… So i understand the reason of the vc’s later.
Exporting a tiff for NIC’s (old free version) i let it return in the same folder and give t a suffix from where it came. And add the filternames in the xmp or propertie section.
This way i keep a steady dam structure.
If dxo dam would be as bridge is evolved i can cut out step bridge.
Thanks. I’ll give that a try.
I use Lightroom Classic — which you can do for free if you only use the Library module.
That is exactly the idea I stumbled upon trying to figure a way around not having metadata presets in PhotoLab! I’ll try that for a while and maybe we’ll see those prests in v7.