http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/ digital organization that moves you from chaos to creative flow Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/#comment-1560 Kim Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:40:13 +0000 http://digiscrap101.com/?p=185#comment-1560 I am SO glad that I found your post, Kayla! I have been using PNG a lot lately because of the transparency plus, but had no idea of the metadata “closet” issue until today. I am an artist and graphic designer and I’ve been ‘trying’ to be better at putting metadata into all of my images since I’ve recently begun to post these online. When doing this today, I was creating metadata in my psd files and then saving it out to a png to post on my blog. I forgot something in my meta, and went into file info {in the PNG} to change it and found nothing there! That’s when I started searching for an answer. I now need to go back through all the PNG files for my website and blog and change what I can to gif or jpg. Can’t believe this.
Thanks so much! Great explanation and I now feel a little more intelligent about these file formats.
Cheers!

]]> http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/#comment-157 Kayla Lamoreaux Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:42:00 +0000 http://digiscrap101.com/?p=185#comment-157 I never thought that moving to a new computer would do this, but you are so right – any slight change to a PNG file can separate it from metadata. Im sorry you lost your keywords, but glad you now understand why. Hope your future organizing efforts are more fruitful. All the best to you!

]]> http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/#comment-156 Katherine Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:42:24 +0000 http://digiscrap101.com/?p=185#comment-156 Oh my goodness… I am so happy to see this. I’ve been using Picasa for years to organize items, always tagging and categorizing all my digi supplies as new things come in so I can easily find them. When I recently moved everything to a new computer …whammo…. all those years of work disappeared. I thought it was Picasa’s fault. Thanks so much for the great tutorial on png’s without a closet. Great metaphor!

]]> http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/#comment-155 Kayla Lamoreaux Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:21:54 +0000 http://digiscrap101.com/?p=185#comment-155 Nope – tif files can preserve transparency and layers
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]]> http://www.kaylalamoreaux.com/the-road-to-lightroom-is-paved-with-png-files/#comment-154 Connie Miles Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:37:40 +0000 http://digiscrap101.com/?p=185#comment-154 Kayla – When you save png files to tiff don’t you lose the transparency of png?

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