Hi Michael, I have just tried that - the XP properties - on JPEGs which had IPTC info added by IrfanView (which works well). XP didn't even find the info there, it showed the EXIF well but not the IPTC tags, although they were named the same! (ie author, keywords, caption,...). So I guess XP doesn't work with IPTC but some other proprietary format. I was able to change the info in XP for multiple files by selecting them all and clicking on the button in the lower right corner above the OK Cancel Apply buttons, where all the EXIF info shows and also the Keywords Author ... fields, but the info I entered did NOT show up in any IPTC compatible viewer. Again, it seems to me that XP stores the info in a proprietary way.
Your best bet could be the IrfanView, it lets you view all files in a directory as thumbnails, you can select several you want, and add IPTC info to just the selected files at once. Frantisek
