IrfanView it's free.

Tried Ifranview, and if it has a way to do this, it's buried so deep I can't find it.

Click on the Image tab, choose Information at the top of the drop down list.  Click on IPTC info at the bottom of the box, edit to your hearts content.

Quote from: obj owl on November 20, 2017, 19:14

Click on the Image tab, choose Information at the top of the drop down list.  Click on IPTC info at the bottom of the box, edit to your hearts content.

What/where is the 'Image tab'?

I finally figured out that you have to use Files/Thumbnails to start browsing.  Then I drill down 9 levels (it always starts at the top) and see the thumbnails I want.  But no Image tab, or any other tabs.  Google has nothing for "Irfanvew image tab".

File  Edit  Image  Options  View  Help

I'll assume you mean 'menu item', not 'tab'.

In the "Thumbnails" window where I see and select photos, there's no "Image" menu item.  In the other (main?) window, which is empty, there's an Image menu, but no IPTC selection in it.

Are we talking about the same program?

But hey - we can let this go.  I just found a little gem of a program called PixiShot that does this in a simple and obvious way - see thumbnails, right-click copy, right-click paste. And it's free.

Yes, Menu item.  PixiShot looks interesting.

You can also do it in Windows, right click on thumbnail, properties, but not all agencies can read it.

XnView is a free and good Programm to edit pictures and the IPTC data.

Don't be so complicated. in Irfanview with an image open, I then I, that's keystroke shortcuts for Image and IPTC data. You can open two copys of Irfan at the same time or copy and paste to any text editor, then copy and paste to the next image.

Or batch edit https://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php/Batch_updates_of_IPTC_tags_using_IrfanView

Old thread that I'd like to revive.

I'm still looking for a better tool for editing IPTC keywords, descriptions,titles etc.

PixiShot does the job, but it's dated and clunky.  The main point of pain is the text editor, a pathetic little single-line window that shows about 8 words at a time and can't be enlarged.  And not being able to select ascending/descending sort order is pretty bad.

It's deadware, hasn't been updated in years.

Does anyone know of something newer and better?

I know I tried Breezebrowser once.  Maybe there was a reason I didn't like it, or else I just wouldn't pay $95 which IMHO is crazy. But I'll look again.

UPDATE: I downloaded the trial and now I remember the problem: no way to copy/paste IPTC from one photo to another.  I think you can export it to a file, then import it, or something.  Messy and slow.

GIMP!  Now there's a name from the past.  Being a Windows guy I've never used it.   But I see they have a windows version.  I know it's an image editor, but is it also a good browser and IPTC editor?

UPDATE: No, it's not. I just installed it, took a quick trip to hell, and uninstalled.   

I know I tried Breezebrowser once.  Maybe there was a reason I didn't like it, or else I just wouldn't pay $95 which IMHO is crazy. But I'll look again.

UPDATE: I downloaded the trial and now I remember the problem: no way to copy/paste IPTC from one photo to another.  I think you can export it to a file, then import it, or something.  Messy and slow.

Select images, Apply to Selected images.  That's the easiest part of the system. Check out... select some images, which is one click, hold the CTRL, or you can do the usual, Shift+click and select a range,

then Ctrl+shift+ I which is a bit unusual at first but that's the command to bring up the IPTC edit screen



If you click apply to all, it will do just that, but it also will overwrite the title and description, so you want to add keywords, which the system has a memory, and as you go to each, --> they will be filled in, and you click apply.

Also and this is the nice part if you do the same kind of work or want to use a saved set of words, Save to File, saves all the data into an XMP file. I take a completed image, remove all data, except the keywords, then save that. You don't have to destroy or re-do anything, just save the data and then don't apply the changes.

Now you have a keyword file, say for example I have words for an automobile photo. Any time I'm working on an auto photo, I can go to keywords, click MERGE which doesn't overwrite anything that's there, and now I have the top automobile words that I use, added to that image, or the whole set of images. You could have a set for wildlife, birds, trees, landscape, doesn't matter, they are essentially a delimited text file.

But the bottom line is, making sets of words, then merging them into your images, as needed, so you don't have to do that over and over.

BreezeBrowser does much more, I just don't use the features. You can edit right from the work panel, you set the editor in the settings. I see it more as an organizer, something I've never used.

Yes, $95 is a lot of money for keywording tools. I'm sure that there's something that words out there, that's free. Since I don't have a need, I didn't investigate for other alternatives.  I don't remember what I paid in 2008, but so far, good programming means the same software still works on Windows 10. Some others, I have had to keep my XP computer working, because I'd have to buy new or they stopped making their software. Kolor Autopano is one of those. I really like the way it does stitched panoramas, and maybe there's something else? But the old version doesn't work on anything after XP and the new version isn't sold anymore. The technology was purchased by GoPro for some reason, I think VR and video.

You can do it in GIMP.

And many do that. Gimp seems a really good free alternative, once someone takes the time to learn how it works.

After banging my head against this for an hour, and downloading all sorts of crap, I went back to PixiShot and figured out my problem - I think.   It has a non-obivious option to "automatically save files" which is off by default.  Long story short, in that state you will see all sorts of weird behavior as you edit IPTC because it isn't save right away and in fact often reverts to the original - silently.  But enable that option and it seems to modify the file on disc right away.

I think I'm ok now.

Nice a freeware that does it for you. As much as we hate free when it comes to our work, it seems we all like free when it comes to software tools? LOL 

a simpler approach is to first add your caption & tags to a spreadsheet (google dox has a free one)

then any time you need that (or similar) just cut/paste - no need to hunt for the image you want to use as a model

i have over 50K images & can find what i need in seconds

That's good advice. What do you use to paste that data into the images?