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Awkward Team OkeaH
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February 10, 2024
Question

Adobe Bridge 2024 - IPTC (IIM, Legacy) activated, but some metadata are missing

  • February 10, 2024
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Hi!

The agency I just started working with asks me to fill "category" and "other categories" sections in the images' metadata. Although the IPTC (IIM, legacy) is activated via settings, only these two sections are missing from the metadata tab. 

I use a Mac, with Mac OS Ventura 13.6.1. How can I activate these two sections?

Thanks!

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Lumigraphics
Legend
March 22, 2024

https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=5806.0

elianoimperato
elianoimperato
Known Participant
March 23, 2024

Thank you but I'm on a MacOS system.

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Lumigraphics
Legend
March 24, 2024

It doesn't matter. The fields you want to use are deprecated, unsupported, so you'll need to write a custom solution. That involves scripting or using another app like EXIFTool. What you want is not possible out of the box with Adobe applications.

Erik Bloodaxe
Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
February 10, 2024

Look in Bridge Preferences under Metadata and select the items you wish to see in the Metadata Panel.

gregreser
gregreser
Legend
February 11, 2024

@Erik Bloodaxe is right: make sure Categories and Suplemental Categories are selected.

 

The bigger issue is that these fields are not editable in Bridge (there is no text box beside them to enter data). This is probably because IPTC have defined these as depricated and no longer used.

 https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#deprecated-iim-metadata-properties

 

Obvioulsy, the agency you are working with still uses them, so you need to find a  way to enter them. I would first ask them what software they use to create and read these fields. There is a custom metadata panel for Bridge that might allow you to use Categories and Suplemental Categories, but I haven't tested to make sure it will work.

https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/103752/custom-metadata-panel 

elianoimperato
elianoimperato
Known Participant
March 22, 2024

I selected both, "Categories" and "Suplemental Categories", in the settings panel but I still can't see the Category field in the IPTC panel.

For now I solved using the IPTC metadata panel in Lightroom but for my workflow I prefer to add all the IPTC when I'm importing the photos with Bridge. I think Adobe should take more care about these things because also pro workers are using this apps.
Is not easy to stop to use Photo Mechanic for a photojournalist... I can do everything also with Bridge, the only thing I miss and I'm searching for is an app to use the very useful Photo Mechanic function "code replacement".

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