John Brown

David, for casual viewing in Windows I use XnView (http://www.xnview.com/) and if I want to be really sure, the best is Exiftool by Phil Harvey (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/). As a test picture I actually used one of the sample pictures attached to the IPTC specs, so the metadata I started with should be really correct. Regards, Zdenek

Thank you, David. You are spot on. A metadata editor would be great, but for the moment I would be greatful if the data already in the JPG file would be left untouched.

I edited a photo in Paint.NET and it stripped it completely of the previously entered IPTC and XMP metadata. Is this known behaviour or could the problem be in something else as well? Thank you.