I understand that I can see an added caption in the INFO box of a photo. It would be more useful if it was shown on the thumbnails view, right under the photo's title. Is there a way to get this piece of metadata to be displayed there?
MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)
"Is there a way for the photo captions to be displayed in the Thumbnail view of Photos"
No.
I put relevant information in the Title, if I can. What you get with a thumbnail is given in the menu item View>Metadata,
and even that is a little misleading-- for instance, Location doesn't mean it shows the location under the thumbnail, but instead it puts on icon on thumbnails that do have a location. Note there is no Caption listed. Captions, of course, could take up a lot of space.
If you want something like this,
with captions underneath pictures, you can get this by selecting Print and then Contact Sheet. You get choices like this:
If you print this as a PDF, then you get a digital copy that you can share with others.
I hope that idea helps you out-- let us know....
"Is there a way for the photo captions to be displayed in the Thumbnail view of Photos"
No.
I put relevant information in the Title, if I can. What you get with a thumbnail is given in the menu item View>Metadata,
and even that is a little misleading-- for instance, Location doesn't mean it shows the location under the thumbnail, but instead it puts on icon on thumbnails that do have a location. Note there is no Caption listed. Captions, of course, could take up a lot of space.
If you want something like this,
with captions underneath pictures, you can get this by selecting Print and then Contact Sheet. You get choices like this:
If you print this as a PDF, then you get a digital copy that you can share with others.
I hope that idea helps you out-- let us know....
In Photos there are user-accessible fields for Title, Capture Date, Caption, Keyword, and Location.
Things like filename and camera info can't be changed. Since Title appears under the Thumbnail, the title is usually short-- though it can be longer with only the first characters appearing with the Thumbnail. Caption, or sometimes Description, can be long-- I'm not sure what the limit is, but I have captions with multiline biographies of several people in a picture. In the contact sheet that I showed earlier, the first line in bold is from the Title field, and the rest is from the Caption field. For editing, it seems that Captions are hard to access, but Titles are available to scripts. For now, at least, Titles do not show in iOS, but Captions do.
For titles I have been using Photos Workbench ($30). You can do stuff like this:
Here are some choices you get:
"Counter" is an index number increasing from a start number you can choose.
My pictures almost always carry a title something like this
with a description, like Six Flags, in this case.
Photos Workbench also has a find and replace function for Titles, which I, unfortunately, make use of often-- after I've discovered my mistakes. I have used it to replace titles on several thousand pictures after I decided to change my format. Here's a name format change:
It's good that you're interested in Titles rather than Captions-- Titles are easier.
Interesting. It seems I was applying my common sense of 'caption' (i.e., as "short piece of text under a picture in a book or article that describes the picture"). In your example (of text that would, indeed, take up a lot of space!!) I would call those 'descriptions'. IAC, PHOTOS 'caption' doesn't appear to be used for what I am looking for. I suppose the 'title' field is intended for that, but that wouldn't work with my decades-long, thousands-of-photos naming scheme so I'll make do with keywords and other functions. Thanks for all the details you provided!
Is there a way for the photo captions to be displayed in the Thumbnail view of Photos (Mac OS)?
