I've been looking into new Vista features and it looks like you can now add tags and other metadata to photos through Windows Gallery in Vista. After using WG once, it looks like it is very simple to add metadata to photos. I tried experimenting with DO9 to see if there is anything similar but I can't find a way to add metadata to photos.
I know that photo metadata was previously not editable because it was stored on separate databases, e.g. Photoshop would store its own metadata for photos. But now that Vista is actually storing metadata directly onto the image files, we should be able to edit it through DO.
Is this currently possible? Am I missing something? If this isn't currently possible, will it be integrated into a future update?
Advanced Photo and Camera data can be edited in Properties in DO Just as with Windows Explorer. Properties -> Details will get you there. The rest of the data I guess is assumed to be supplied by the camera download or extracted from the image itself.This is no different in WE from the properties menu. Same options.
So I guess In that respect you can't do any more than Explorer as far as editing the Image Meta data. You can however in an Image folder display the information in your own defined format so that is a plus. The viewer is generally very nice as well. The concept of collections I think is good image tools that you get in DO and no place else through a global file browser. the view options are also unique and perhaps a value you would consider being into Image computing.
DO has been real solid from the get go though several quickly released updates indicates the desire for a great Vista product is really sincere. DO never stops getting better. the more people use it the more ideas that seem to get generated.