Missing keywords on RAW files in iphoto

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Missing keywords on RAW files in iphoto

Hi

I am editing my photos using Photoshop elements and i an using the Adobe Bridge to help organize my photo. With the Adobe Bridge i add keywords to both JPG and RAW files.

When i import the JPG and the RAW files in Iphoto(i do not copy the photos to iPhoto library) i can see both files, but only the keywords from the JPG can be seen. The RAW files just displays RAW in the keyword field in Iphoto. I have the latest raw support downloaded and my camera is among the supported cameras.

Any good ideas on how to see my RAW photo keywords in Iphoto ?

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Per (2 weeks of mac experience, and i keep getting better :-))

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 2, 2010 12:06 PM

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Yer_Man

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Jan 2, 2010 12:19 PM in response to Perl

Have you written the tags to the Raw files with Bridge?

As a general comment? It seems a complex workflow - is there a reason you're using Bridge? Why are you using a Referenced Library?

Regards

TD

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Jan 2, 2010 5:05 PM in response to Perl

Bridge writes metadata to sidecar XMP file for raw files. I would doubt that iphoto can read the xmp file, but I don't know for sure.

EDIT but one thing to check is to be sure that you are creating sidecar files and not writing to a central database. The setting is in the Camera Raw preferences (click the little square with the lines on it over the preview area in the raw converter).

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Perl Author

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Jan 3, 2010 11:08 AM in response to Perl

Thanks for you help

Perl

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