Digital SafarisMaintaining ZenPhoto
Album Page
Which may contain subalbums, or image thumbnails.
Album title: Suggest folders on the server are named with ordinal dates, YYYYMMDD, which will be the default album title. Change to something more meaningful.
Album description: Use as appropriate. HTML editor is a bit flaky
Date: will default to folder creation date. Change if needed to reflect album contents
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Thumbnail: ideally this would be Random, but it doesn’t seem to work, so best to select a keynote image to display on the album thumbnail.
SAVE to make everything stick
Sub-albums
Drag to change the order. Don’t forget to SAVE
Images
Files: In Lightroom, this seems to work well. Set dimensions to 1600 x 1600 (preserve aspect ratio), and jpg quality/output file size to 200K.
Title: will pick-up, if present, IPTC Headline, else IPTC Title, else file name
Best to use the title as a summary phrase for all the images in one album.
Description: IPTC Caption/Description from the image. Overwrite as appropriate.
Will display under the image.
Title : Description Will display in the pop-up tool tip when hovering over the image. Also part of the text under enlarged image display and the slideshow.
Date: Should pick-up the date image taken, but for some reason it’s not picking up the time. Might be becasue it's picking up the IPTC Image Date Created field. (problem seems to be solved by a Zen upgrade)
Will display under the image.
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Country / State / City / Location will be picked up from the IPTC location fields and display under the image.
Credit / Copyright will come from the IPTC fields, and be displayed under the image. If the contents are the same, it will only be displayed once
Tags (right hand side) correspond to IPTC keywords.
IPTC Metadata in Lightroom
Keywords: as required. Show up in ZenPhoto
MetaData - default selection
Title: leave blank, or describe the set of photos in the folder. See notes about Headline. My preference is to use Title is preference to Headline.
Caption: Describe the individual photo
Copyright: Enter name
Copyright Status: set to copyrighted
Creator: optional, but might be picked up from the camera
Sublocation: see below
MetaData - IPTC selection
Contact section
Creator: as above.
No other contact fields will be used in ZenPhoto
Content section
Headline is not the same as Title, but if present will be used by Zen in preference to Title. IPTC Headline and Title become just one one field Title in Zen
Description is a synonym for Caption. Anything entered as a Caption will appear as Description, and visa versa
Image section
Sublocation / City / State / Country will all be displayed in ZenPhoto.
Copyright section
If not already set
Copyright: Enter name
Copyright Status: set to copyrighted
MetaData - location selection
GPS: will show Lat and Long co-ordinates, if added by external program. Will only show in LR if present. If GPS data is present, ZenPhoto will link to Google Maps to pinpoint the location.