Aperture-Gallery2 Keyword Bug Workaround

If like me you use Apple’s Aperture photo software and want keywords to appear in a Gallery2 image, here is a laborious but effective workaround.

You need Photoshop CS or higher, as far as I can tell. It works in CS and CS2.

Assign kewords to an image in Aperture.
Export the image from Aperture, making sure Aperture > Presets > Image Export > Include Metadata is checked.
Open the image in Photoshop then Save As jpg
Upload the image to Gallery as you normally would. The IPTC: Keywords field should now be populated.

My research on this perplexing problem revealed Apple’s return characters in the metadata Keyword field were causing it to be unreadable by Gallery’s EXIF parser. Using Photoshop rewrites the metadata.

I’ve automated the whole process using Automator and Applescript so that I can export from Aperture en masse, and the images are likewise moved up to the server via FTP en masse. Contact me if you want these scripts.

I hope this helps you.

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Published:: 12.14.06 / 4pm

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I believe in photographs that show loneliness in places that are not necessarily lonely. I enjoy photographing subjects at dusk and twilight, using long exposures in order to reveal time as well as space. Although I began with an infatuation for the light streaks left by the head and tail lights of moving cars, I have since simplified my frame and prefer to let the subject speak for itself.

I was born in California quite some time ago and spent much of my childhood in Belgium and England. I earned a degree in Journalism from Colorado State University and in 1995 took a 6-week photography trip to Baja Mexico from which I brought back some of my best work. I’ve since worked as both a commercial photographer and designer, and shown photography at galleries and businesses in Denver and Seattle, including the Denver Center for Fine Photography and RealNetworks Inc.

I had a recent fine arts show at Fuel Coffee Montlake. The auto-related photographs in this show were made between 1995 and 2006.

I’m a Seattle-based commercial photographer specializing in architectural and interior photography, and I sell stock photography of Seattle, Seattle landmarks, and objects and textures. I’m always happy to talk about your photography needs.

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