Tag archive: metadata

While the popular JPEG format unquestionably reigns as the standard for consumer-level digital photography, storing the so-called metadata that goes along with pictures, like the camera they were taken with, time, and camera settings, remains a wild west of different formats. The Metadata Working Group, a consortium formed by Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony, hopes to get that all straightened out in the future with a new… Read More

Aperture 1.5 is a new post production tool for photographers that works with iLife 06 and iWork 06 software programs. It will support XMP metadata and offers an export API that will allow photographers to use Aperture with third party applications and services. “Aperture has given photographers around the globe the confidence to work in exciting new ways,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of… Read More