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November 13, 2025
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P: Edit IPTC Metadata Presets: hard to see long captions

  • November 13, 2025
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The Edit Metadata Presets window is tiny. The field for the caption (description) information is a small one line window which makes it hard to see long captions. Compare the window to the IPTC editing window in PhotoMechanic where you can see almost all the fields at a glance and there's plenty of room to write a full caption. Also they have lightning bolts on each field which when clicked will call up previous entries which helps repetative typring.

 

Whilst we're at it, can we bring the Metadata template presets out of the Library folder? It makes it very awkward to share presets with other photographers.

 

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johnrellis
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November 14, 2025

To work around this limitation, I first add the metadata fields to a sample photo in the Metadata panel, where you can see the entire contents. Then I create the preset with that photo selected, and the fields in the Edit Preset window will be filled-in with those values.