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58 Chapter 4 Learning About the Viewer
You can change the combination of metadata that appears in the Metadata inspector
by choosing a metadata view from the Metadata View pop-up menu. You can change
those metadata items that are editable, and you can also customize the metadata
views, adding or deleting metadata fields as you like. Click the buttons at the bottom
of the inspector to customize the metadata used in a metadata view.
You can also add the actual metadata you want applied to your images to the fields of
a metadata view. For example, you can add your name to the Credit field and have it
appear automatically on all the images that you import. To do so, you click the IPTC
button at the bottom of the Metadata inspector. You then enter your name in the
Credit metadata field.
After customizing the metadata fields with the information that you routinely use, you
can save the metadata view and the information you entered as a metadata preset. You
can then use that metadata preset to apply combinations of metadata to images
whenever you want. For example, if there is a specific combination of metadata that a
stock photography service always requires, you can create a metadata preset for that
service. Then whenever you import images destined for that service or prepare images to
send to that service, you can apply the metadata you need using the preset you created.