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IPTC and PLUS Release Photo Metadata Toolkit. The IPTC-PLUS Photo Metadata Toolkit for Adobe CS includes easy to use IPTC-PLUS Metadata panels for Adobe Bridge CS3 and CS4 plus comprehensive user guidelines for these panels and the file-info panels already built into all CS5 products. Learn more, and download the free IPTC-PLUS Toolkit.



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PLUS in Adobe Lightroom. On June 8, 2010, Adobe released Lightroom version 3.0, complete with numerous integrated PLUS rights metadata fields, adopted by IPTC. The PLUS metadata fields are found in the "IPTC Extension." More.

PLUS Participates in Copyright Education Event. The "Copyright Workshop with Jeff Sedlik", took place in Santa Monica, California, as part of ASMP's "Registration Counts" program. More.

PLUS and IPTC Partner on Photo Metadata Tool. At the Photo Metadata Conference 2010, in Dublin, IPTC Executive Director, Michael Steidl demonstrated a new IPTC/PLUS Metadata tool providing read/write access to all PLUS and IPTC photo metadata in Adobe Bridge. The tool will be distributed for free, and is compatible with CS5, as well as CS4 and CS3, allowing users of many Adobe products to use PLUS metadata. More.

PLUS at CEPIC Congress 2010. PLUS General Counsel, Nancy Wolff represented PLUS at the New Media Conference, at CEPIC Congress 2010 event in Dublin, Ireland. Wolff made a presentation on "Persistence of Photo Metadata" and also participated in the Trade Association Round Table. More.

PLUS at the Copyright Society. PLUS General Counsel, Nancy Wolff attended the Copyright Society 2010 Annual Meeting in New Jersey, USA. Wolff made a presentation in "Copyright's F-Word: Reconsidering the Role of Formalities in Copyright", a seminar on registries. More.

PLUS in Adobe CS5. On April 30, 2010, Adobe released Creative Suite 5, integrating numerous PLUS rights metadata fields adopted by IPTC. The PLUS metadata fields are found in the "File Info" panels under "IPTC Extension." PLUS will also release a free plug-in supporting the use of all PLUS metadata fields in CS5. More.

PLUS Presents at Collective Imagination Conference. At the International TMS Users Meeting, PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik described the application of the PLUS standards in cultural heritage workflows. Through a web-sharing demonstration, Sedlik also informed the Gallery Systems user community of the latest developments at PLUS.

PLUS featured at “Copyright, Know it or Blow It.” At an event in Santa Monica, California, the Advertising Photographers of America presented PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik speaking on the benefits of the PLUS image licensing standards.

PLUS Presents at Copyright Conference. PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik spoke at “Copyright and the New Economy: Issues & Trends Facing Visual Artists,” a conference hosted in New York City by the American Society of Media Photographers.

PLUS Participates at ASPP/PACA Conference. PLUS Board member Roger Feldman presented a PLUS overview and update at a four-day conference hosted by ASPP and PACA: “Reinvention Weekend - Reinvent, Reimagine, and Reinvigorate Your Career” in Boston, Massachusetts. Feldman revealed PLUS's new web tools to the image creator and buyers community, with the help of a recorded presentation by PLUS CEO, Jeff Sedlik, featuring a suite of PLUS metadata panels for Adobe Creative Suite 5.

The British Library adopts the PLUS Standards in global image licensing platform. The British Library leverages the PLUS Standards in their primary image licensing platform, Images Online. The Library’s PLUS compliant image licenses simplify the process of licensing and managing image rights. More.

AAAA Joins PLUS. The American Association of Advertising Agencies has joined the PLUS Coalition with Harold S. Geller, Senior Vice President for Cross-Industry Workflow, taking a seat on the PLUS Board of Directors. More.

NPPA Supports PLUS. The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has made a substantial contribution of funding to the PLUS Coalition. More.

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Video Tutorial: Lightroom Plugin for PLUS
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Easily add rights metadata to all of your images.

Photographer and application developer Timothy Armes has released PLUS for Lightroom, a fully-featured PLUS plug-in for Adobe Lightroom allowing users to create and batch-embed industry standard PLUS license statements in image files. Available from Tim's site, Photographers Toolbox. To view brief tutorial videos on using PLUS for Lightroom, click below:

Video 1: Introduction & Installation
Video 2: Adding Image Specific PLUS Metadata
Video 3: Creating Usage Licenses and Exporting Images with Metadata

Hindsight Software integrates the PLUS Standards. Desktop business management programs InView and StockView 5.5 include a new PLUS – compliant licensing module for photographers. More.

PLUS Tools Use the free beta version of the PLUS License Generator to create a PLUS Universal License Summary. Then, embed the Summary into digital image files using the free beta version of the PLUS License Embedder & Reader (see the PLUS Standards Library), which can also be used to read and decode the license information embedded in the image file or contained in an xmp file, allowing anyone, anywhere to easily access and understand the scope of rights associated with the image.

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