How Do I Properly Input Metadata Info In RAW ?

[canoncurious]

Hello everyone. I have a question about metadata info. I take photos in RAW format. What I want to do is open each photo in Photoshop and click FILE>FILE INFO and input information. My question is, when I do this, do I need to save a copy (SAVE AS...)of the RAW file instead of just SAVE ?
I fear that if I input the info and just click SAVE, I am destroying the original RAW file since Photoshop first opens your RAW files with Adobe Camera RAW, but once Photoshop is fully open, the file is no longer a RAW file but actually a headerless PSD. Is that right ?

Also, how do I input the same metadata info into an entire folder of RAW files. I would think opening each individual photo and entering info into each photo seperately would be terribly tedious.

Can anybody help me out please ?

As an example...I have RAW format photos taken from a wedding or ball game and want to enter the same event info into each RAW file, How would I do that ?

Or do I indeeed need to open each single RAW file and input it's own keywords, event info, author etc ?

Thanks,

Tonee

[tommykjensen]

You can't save a modified raw.

Photoshop stores the metadata in a seperate file.

You can use Photoshops browser to add the same metadata to multiple raws.

[rfreschner]

Look in Photoshop's help for Metadata Templates and you should be all set.

[rlhphotos]

You can add metadata using Bridge I believe...But refrence the metadata templates suggested above as you'll need one of those in order to add the data using bridge.

[DavidW]

You don't say what version of Photoshop is involved. If you have CS2, select all the files in Bridge, right click, File Info..., and enter the common metadata. Any item that doesn't have a check mark next to it will be left unaltered in all the files. As other people have said, there's also metadata templates.

You don't alter the RAW file - the data goes elsewhere, typically in a sidecar .xmp file.



David