As far as I know, there’s not really a way to add completely custom metadata fields to Lightroom. You can rename some existing fields using http://regex.info/Lightroom/Config/ and geocoding support can be added with http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps.

-Scott

Thanks for all the tutorials, it realy helped me.
Currently I am working on database of historical landscape photographs and I want to attach more information like vegetation type, geographical coordinates etc in addition to the original caption given by the photographer. Is it possible to add more fields to the metadata section in LR in order to accomodate these kind of information?

Regards
Awot

Yes, you can change/update the metadata of an image (or group of images) at any time.

-Scott

Thanks,

Ben

I believe I was adding to the preferences menu to improve printing consistency when I did something that made it crash. It worked fine, with your setup for 30 days before the crash. I point this out FYI so that as the “LR3 will not start” phenomenon spreads, no combination you have supplied is faulted.

Regards,

Sorry about the delay. Your question got buried. You can create as many metadata presets as you want. For most photographer’s one is fine but in your case two might make sense. You could create one for you and a separate one for your wife. There is no way for the computer to tell who took what photo but you could easily stamp the appropriate template on your images and her images from within the Metadata panel while working in Grid View in the Library Module. Once the templates are built you just need to select your files and then click on the appropriate Metadata Preset button from the drop down menu at the top of the Metadata panel.

I hope this helps and please write us back if you need more assistance. Sorry again about the delay.

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David Marx

Welcome to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This article on installing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom on multiple computers should answer most of your questions!

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David Marx
david@thelightroomlab.com

Thanks so much for the heads up on a new potential user of lightroom 3.

this is all new for me and thankfully I found your videos to set up before I set up the program.

In buying 3, can I install the program on all of the computers in my household? I use three frequently.

In addition, what happens when one computer is replaced with a newer unit? Can the program be re-installed on the new one?

thanks
allan

I think you are confusing the metadata copyright field, which is inside the file, with a visible watermark that gets stamped over the visible pixels. Every stock agency should reject files with the photographers’s visible watermark stamped into the pixels.

Right now, I have images with a dozen different microstock agencies. All of them require that my submissions include important metadata like keywords, captions, and titles. So far as I know none of them are worried about my copyright information since a: they can strip this right out if need, and b: even though the images are licensed to them I still retain the legal copyright to my work.

This article on how metadata adds value to your photographs, and the other articles that it references, might also help.

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David Marx