Adding text to existing captions as a batch edit

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December 30, 2021
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I have hundreds of photos with their own unique captions, and I want to ADD an identical line of text to each of the captions. Is this possible as a batch edit?

Like this: [Existing caption] + [New line of text].

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Correct answer john beardsworth

If you select a bunch of images and have <Mixed> in the caption, type your texr after it. This appends your text.

As Rikk mentioned, I do a plugin called Search and Replace which does more sophisticated text replacement (eg replacing a word anywhere in the caption).

john beardsworthCorrect answer

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If you select a bunch of images and have <Mixed> in the caption, type your texr after it. This appends your text.

As Rikk mentioned, I do a plugin called Search and Replace which does more sophisticated text replacement (eg replacing a word anywhere in the caption).

Stig Ove VollAuthor

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Splendid! Thank you so much!

Rikk Flohr_Photography

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I believe plugins by John R Ellis or John Beardsworth offer this type of functionality inside of Lightroom.

http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/lightroom/

https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/allplugins.htm

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Michael J. Hoffman

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Lightroom doesn't have this kind of capability, but it sounds like a job for Exiftool. With exiftool, you could send a folder or multiple folders full of files to be modified at a time, using a command line something like:

exiftool -P -IPTC:Caption-Abstract+="additional text…" *.jpg

(-P preserves the creation date, and += appends new data onto existing data).

I'm not a user of Exiftool, perhaps someone who is could help further. I've just read and noted its capabilities, and see that it's quite powerful for tasks like this one.

https://exiftool.org/

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