- [Instructor] Importing is a good time
to add some metadata information to your photos.
We're going to create a copyright metadata preset
so that we can add the information to the photos
during the next import.
But before we create the template,
let's take a look at what metadata is.
Metadata is simply information.
In this case, it is a set
of standardized information about photos.
Digital cameras attached,
some basic metadata,
like the capture time and date
and the image size capture settings,
and even the camera and camera lens that captured it.
We can see that in the metadata panel
on the right hand side of the screen here.
With lightroom,
you can use this metadata to streamline your workflow
and organize your files.
The metadata information can also be included
with the exported images that get shared with others.
Adding your contact and copyright metadata during import is
the fastest and most efficient way to attach
this information to your photos.
So to create a preset,
we want to go to metadata in the menu at the top here.
And if you don't see metadata,
make sure that you are in the library module
shown with library highlighted.
And that could even be collapsed.
Because there's a pain across the top here,
and there's a little tiny triangle.
So if you don't see library,
click up here and then make sure that
the library is highlighted
and then you'll find metadata.
About halfway down,
the metadata menu is edit metadata presets.
Now there is a ton of information
that you can add to your photos here,
or metadata information you can add.
We're just going to focus on these two.
The IPTC copyright and the IPTC creator.
So for the copyright,
I like to use a copyright symbol and I'm on a Mac.
So that's an option g,
and if you're on a windows machine,
that's going to be an alt zero one six nine.
For my workflow
I usually like to create a new copyright for every year.
So I would put the year
the photos were captured here as well.
For example, every January 1st,
I create a new metadata preset for the new year,
but for this course, we'll just keep it generic.
Next, we have the copyright status
and you want to make sure that
this is copyrighted, if you click on it,
you'll see a few other options here.
In the rights usage terms,
you might want to put something like
no reproduction rights are granted
without the express written permission
and then your name,
I'm going to leave this blank,
but you could do some research
on what you want those terms to be.
And then in the URL,
you would put the web address
where you have that information.
In the next section, the IPTC creator,
this is your contact information.
So if you're the photographer of the images,
you are the creator and you put your name in there.
And then the rest of the information is really up to you.
How much contact information
do you want embedded in your images.
At a minimum,
you really want to put your email address.
Because you want people to be able to contact you
if they find your images
and then maybe want to buy it from you.
So I like to at least have my email.
Most of the time I'll include my phone number as well.
So now that we have all of the information
for our metadata preset, we need to save this.
But this window is not very user friendly
because we don't see any button that says save as or save.
We'll find that back up here at the top,
where it says preset custom, if you click on that,
you can save current settings as new preset.
And then give it a name
and again, in my real workflow,
I would give it a name with the year.
But for this,
I'm just going to create it for this course.
And then I'll click create,
I'll click done to close out of this.
The preset was saved and now we're ready
to import more photos.
We'll add this metadata when we do so.