From F-Spot to iPhoto (or Picasa): Transfering Keywords [Tips & Tricks]
This was taken and adapted from a gentleman in Michigan.
This is a trick to get your keywords to show up in iPhoto (or even Google Picasa, as it turns out) after using F-Spot as your photo manager. Basically, you take a tool that will allow you to manipulate the metadata (EXIF) information of your digital photos. In this case, it will be used to copy the keywords location of F-Spot into the keywords location of iPhoto. Both applications will then have access to the keywords that you’ve added.
I did change the original post a little bit by making a correction to the keywords location. It seems that F-Spot keeps it’s Keywords in XMP:Subject which needs to be copied to the spot where iPhoto will recognize the keywords in IPTC:Keywords. Moving on…
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