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Posted on Sat Jun 24 15:20:48 2006 by fixrim
all keywords read as one string after using EXifTool
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?
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Posted on Sun Jun 25 14:36:54 2006 by exiftool in response to 2528
Re: all keywords read as one string after using EXifTool
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
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