Travelshots Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Does anybody know a program that runs on OSX that enables the ALT tag to be embedded and a value given to it in jpg image files ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Not sure I've understood your question. But you might want to Google Exiftool and ExifToolGui which allow you to view and edit pretty much any of the metadata in image files. I've run them on both Windows and Mac to do intricate editing of metadata (e.g. turning lens distortion correction on and off). Hope that helps. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 10 hours ago, Travelshots said: Does anybody know a program that runs on OSX that enables the ALT tag to be embedded and a value given to it in jpg image files ? Er...Photoshop?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoDogue Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 11 hours ago, Travelshots said: Does anybody know a program that runs on OSX that enables the ALT tag to be embedded and a value given to it in jpg image files ? Are you talking about HTML? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 3 hours ago, fotoDogue said: Are you talking about HTML? I think that the OP is referring to how it is possible to embed the HTML Alt tag into the image itself, rather than into the HTML code on the webpage. I haven't used Photoshop in a long time, so I don't know, but it should be easy enough to do this in PS. though quite why you'd want to, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelshots Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 Yes I am trying to see if an ALT tag can be embeded in the image. Photoshop I dont think will do it. I am told CS In Design might.... Thanks for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 15 minutes ago, Travelshots said: Yes I am trying to see if an ALT tag can be embeded in the image. Photoshop I dont think will do it. I am told CS In Design might.... Thanks for all your help. The ALT tag is being used in html not embedded in the image itself. Just type something like <img src="myphoto.jpg" alt="a photo of mine"> If you use a content managing system (like Wordpress) there are plugins that populate the ALT text from one of the IPTC fields. Usually Caption or Title. You can fill in the IPTC fields in any real photo editor and in some apps. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelshots Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 38 minutes ago, wiskerke said: The ALT tag is being used in html not embedded in the image itself. Just type something like <img src="myphoto.jpg" alt="a photo of mine"> If you use a content managing system (like Wordpress) there are plugins that populate the ALT text from one of the IPTC fields. Usually Caption or Title. You can fill in the IPTC fields in any real photo editor and in some apps. wim Wim Thank you so much that is exactly what I am trying to do. Take the IPTC Title and make it an ALT tag. I dont use word press but will download it and try out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 23 minutes ago, Travelshots said: Wim Thank you so much that is exactly what I am trying to do. Take the IPTC Title and make it an ALT tag. I dont use word press but will download it and try out. Where are you trying to do that? WordPress and other CMS-s run on a web server. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Just to jump in again: remember that the ALT tag in HTML was designed to be used specifically for less-able users (using screen-readers and so on) and/or for those who choose to browse without images enabled - for whatever reason. If your intention is to make the text visible for all users in most (all? Don't know these days) browsers, then add the HTML TITLE tag as well. The TITLE tag may include concise additional information and can also be used for textual content. Bear in mind that this shouldn't be used as a keywording SEO shortcut: Google got wise to this many years ago. So, following on from wim's example: <img src="myphoto.jpg" alt="a photo of mine" title="a great photo of mine"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelshots Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 I have wordpress installed on my server but have never actually used it. I will see what I can find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoDogue Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 8 hours ago, losdemas said: Just to jump in again: remember that the ALT tag in HTML was designed to be used specifically for less-able users (using screen-readers and so on) and/or for those who choose to browse without images enabled - for whatever reason. It's left over from the early days of the web when people were using 56k modems over dial-up. If you've ever waited minutes for a Gif file to download from half-way around the world you'd understand why. Now that we have jpg and broadband connections images usually load so fast we barely notice alt tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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