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Title: all keywords read as one string after using EXifTool
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:53:55 AM
[Originally posted by fixrim on 2006-06-24 12:20:48-07]

I am migrating my photos from BrilliantPhoto to Photoshop Elements 4.0. BrilliantPhoto used different IPTC locations for People/Place/Keywords and Elements only uses one. I have figured out how to read and combine all the tags to the "Keywords" Tag.  But when I try to import the photo into PhotoShop Elements it imports all the separate tags as one tag.( I tried it on  MS Digital Image Suite with the same results). Before I use ExifTool it imports keywords separately(Keyword1 and Keyword2) but after I use Exiftool to add the other tags to IPTC:keyword location  it imports them all as one string.

Here is the line I use to write to the file:

exiftool.pl -IPTC:Keywords="People1, People2, Place, Event, Keyword1, Keyword2"  Photo.jpg

What am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: all keywords read as one string after using EXifTool
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:53:55 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-06-25 11:36:54-07]

You need to assign each keyword separately.

Take a look at the third writing example
here.
It will do what you want.  Also, the 4th example shows how to add a new keyword while preserving
existing keywords.

- Phil