I'm enjoying helping photographers solve their problems, and even more so, watching my teammates here do the same. As a result, I've learned some good tips and thought I'd pass one along right now.

One of the big challenges shooters are having when they get to the workroom is applying unique metadata to the dozens of images they have to upload to their respective publishers. When one photographer was adding keywords, them mouse-clicking to the next photo to add more keywords, Clem (on our team) showed him a better way.

You can stay in the keyword field as you arrow-key from one image to the next if you hold down the CMD key as you arrow your way through the pictures. By doing so, you can move quickly and keep the cursor in the metadata field along the way. This also works for captioning, which I find highly useful because my captions tend to be more unique than my keywords.

So it's as simple as 1-2-3: add text to the caption field, hold down the CMD key and arrow-click to the next picture, then type the caption for that picture.

Working here in Beijing is like attending a 24 hour Aperture workshop.