How to export image with caption

When I go to presets>file naming in the Aperture menu, there is a "caption" option. However, none of the metadata options to be included include "caption."

Hello Steve,

when you export an image version, the IPTC metadata tags (caption, creator, etc.) will be included as IPTC tags by default. Applications, that are able to understand these tags can use them.

When you export an image master file, the IPTC metadata tags (caption, creator, etc.) will be included as IPTC tags if you specify so during export.

There is no need to include these tags as part of the filename. Why do you want this information in the filename?

Regards

Léonie

It's not clear just what you are looking for. Do you what the image name to the the caption, do you what the IPTC caption included in the images metadata, do you want the caption to appear in the image?

The second you can do by including the metadata when you export. The thrid will require a plug-in such as BorderFx. I'm not sure about the first and am not a a machine with Aperture to look.

regards

Display where?

Guessing: take a look at BorderFX -- used and recommended by many here (including myself).

Added:

It may or may not be difficult to accomplish. It has proven difficult to specify.

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Hello Steve,

many applications ignore the IPTC caption tags and will only show the filename as annotations, even if aperture is doing its very best to provide this information, e.g. the Apple Screensaver will only show the filename. In this case you really need to make the filename/version name equal to the caption or overlay the annotation as graphics onto the image (e.g. with BorderFX , as Frank Caggiano suggested).

However, there is no easy way in Aperture to create the version name from the caption; you can use "Metadata -> Batch change" to set the a custom version name, but you have to enter the custom part of the name manually, or you could try to create an Automator workflow that writes the caption tag to the version name.

What I do is, I use Aperture's "Smart Webpage" to publish my web galleries with captions and other annotations. For smart webpages you can define arbitrary presets for the information to be displayed with the images - all the IPTC and EXIF data are available as annotations.

Regards

Léonie

Here is an example of adding the IPTC caption to the image uinsg BorderFx

`Ah Facebook, sorry can;t help there don't use it. I do remember something back a while ago regarding captions being used as filename or something like that.

You might want to start a new thread specifically mentioning Facebook, filenaming and captions in the question, or first post at least.

regards

OT: Funny:

Well i could have written फ्लोरिडा 😉

If you do a search here for Facebook captions you'll get a nummber of hits regarding this issue.

regards

That one still zips over my head. 😕

I saw that too. Now it looks like we have to play Where's Florda. I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that place. Very sneky.

I was going to look into BorderFX. I hope they fix their spell checker.

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