Yesterday I showed you the GeoTagging part of the process, today’s quite a short one (it is Boxing Day after all)

The import screen has a few differences as standard, although there is an extra piece I’d like (can anyone help?) I’d like to automatically place them in yyyy/yyyy-mm/yyyy-mm-dd rather than yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd, just for browsability later.

My photo import screen

• I don’t bother changing the filename on import – it seem overkill when there’s metadata involved
• If you’re mad you can put a develop setting on import – although beware that you can’t undo it afterwards, slightly annoying
• I set the box to create 1:1 presets, it saves time later.
• I put import wide keywords in now, most of the time for me that’s a location, season and an upcoming tag, although I should set up location metadata hierarchies
• Lastly I add my copyright / contact info in as a Metadata Preset – saves a huge chunk of time, as below…

The Metadata preset - all the global stuff!

Above you can see the Metadata preset I set up – basic contact and copyright information, this doesn’t damage the other metadata (specifically location items form the Geotagging) and gives a good grounding for the future – although I don’t put my full location in there ;) Ad yes up until today I had the wrong email and “All Rghts Reserved” in there, oops!

Tomorrow… smart collections! See you then!