![]() In the old days, people preserved memories by scribbling notes behind (or worse: directly on) the photos. ![]() So what can you do about it? Discover the Power of Image Metadata Without the backstory, it’s just another photo. And once you lose the backstory, the photos aren’t that special any more. If you’re looking at 25 year old photos, chances are you won’t remember all the names, dates, places and other important details. Looking for your 2015 fall vacation photos? Good luck!īut then, the bigger question: Do You Know What’s in Them? Your first hurdle would be to gather and scan them. It gets harder if you want to make an album of your best 1990s pictures. ![]() Even if everyone in the family had saved photos to the same computer, it’d be a chore to locate and sort them. Let’s say you’re making a slideshow of your 2015 fall vacation photos. It’s a flood of our own making, and we are drowning. Gigabytes worth of digital images in our computers, smartphones, cloud accounts and external drives. Why bother to edit image metadata? Short answer: To make your photos easy findable, and, if you are a professional photographer, to assert your ownership rights over your work.
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