I’d like to be able to add a quick note to a photo in my photostructure, to help me remember the context of it. Doesn’t need to be long - tweet length should be plenty for my needs.
FWIW there’s Title, Description, Caption, Subject, and a bunch of other related annotations tags.
I think it would be reasonable for PhotoStructure to support both Title and Description fields for assets.
I guess I could add a “Consider the following tags to be Title tags” setting (and an analog for Description), and first-one-not-blank wins?
Alternatives are welcome!
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Was going through photos I’ve shared in chat apps, and noticed many of my photos have captions. I agree it would be nice adding these tags to my assets in PhotoStructure, but then also having captions more immediately obvious when viewing photos. Don’t want to expand entire info box just to read a caption, when 80% of my photos won’t have a caption anyway.
Yep, I agree. By the ways where are captions stored in a photo if they were written in the iOS Photos app? Is it in the exif data?
Howdy @Adam-Photo_Curator – welcome to PhotoStructure!
Unfortunately, Apple has frequently changed how iPhoto/Photos it works – if you send me a zip with a photo that has a caption, I can tell you if it’s in the EXIF–but if you’d like to do the research yourself, I’m just going to be running exiftool, like this:
exiftool -json -struct /path/to/image.heic
You can brew install exiftool if you want to install exiftool with homebrew.
Thanks for the tip. I just ran exiftool and it showed that the caption is stored in “ImageDescription”. Maybe this can be integrated in photostructure, if it isn’t already 
Apologies for reviving an old thread, but did any progress happen on the description/title front?
Most of my photos have a description and it would be nice for that to be surfaced when browsing photos. I appreciate the sheer scale of tags, but the name/description aspect is fairly universal (?)
My preferred version would be as you’ve described:
“Consider the following tags to be Title tags” setting (and an analog for Description), and first-one-not-blank wins?
But would want to show either or both - if the option for the title tag to use is not set then don’t show titles and same for description (I’m abusing Title/Headline tags as a layer of Location hierarchy because sublocation seems to be so poorly supported in most tools)
Either would just show up when viewing an image when the options is set and the relevant tags are populated:
The tools I use tend to tag the following for Title:
IPTC:ObjectName
IPTC:Headline
XMP-dc:Title
XMP-photoshop:Headline
and for Description:
IFD0:ImageDescription
IPTC:Caption-Abstract
XMP-dc:Description
(I’m so sick of metadata lol, just need a standard to unify all this mess into one, new perfect standard…)
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