I am aware that my camera Canon 400d records exif data, I allow it to be displayed when I post a pic here. As I expand my website I would prefer additions to include keyword data which can be read by search engines. I have heard there is a way of coding these keywords into the image file. What software does this? I do have Photoshop .
www.scotaviaimages.co.uk

The newest one that I know of that is 'supposed' to work is Lightroom 1.3 apart from that I'm not sure. Not sure if Lightroom even does this correctly. I think it might be down to your FTP site too...

If your happy with your image editing software, take a look at Power EXIF by Opanda

(BTW, the Firefox add-on works great!!)

I found the following, but Haven't tried them ...

** EXIFeditor 2.0.

http://www.itagsoftware.com/compat.php

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What kind of search results are you looking for? I know that with photoshop you can insert IPTC, keywords, comments etc... which helps get site hits. p.s. btw. If you do a google image search for scotavia you'll get alot of results.

I see that Garlor wants to,

include keyword data which can be read by search engines

How do you know that internet search engnes are programmed to look inside
image files (jpg, ...) to read the EXIF information? 

While you're waiting to discover that answer, why not try, ...

"Now for something completely different" ...

I think it would be easier to have your web designer include 2 additional
information fields with each image: Image Title, and Image Keywords. 

Having that available, insert that information into the heading part of the
generated html coding.  ... as shown in the attached example. 

HTH but YMMV ...

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Martin

Dont forget you can put information into the ALT tag like so.

I find this works very well
If your not sure how to do just e mail me
Eddie

Thanks for the ideaseveryone

Sorry Eddie, but this is not correct.

The alt attribute is used for the visually impaired. The moment the image is loaded, their screen reader says what's in the alt tag. It's necessary to add this to be ok with xhtml webdesign. But it's not meant to appear as a text hanging on your cursor when you mouse over the image. For that purpose you need the title attribute.

Correct browsers like Firefox do not show a text you typed for alt. Internet Exlorer does show the info but that is not because it's correct, but because it's Microsoft who, once again, try to impose their personal vision on the Internet.

src=""  id (or class)="" alt="" title="" width="" height=""

are the normal attributes of the img tag in up-to-date webdesign.

This was recently written in Entireweb Newsletter under the heading "Ten Terrific Tips for On Page Optimisation"

7. It also helps to put your keywords within the alt tags of the images that are embedded in your HTML file. A good example would be if you have a logo that occurs at the top of the document, put the keywords in the alt text. Ie; <img src='imgs/logo.jpg' alt='Logo Harry's Pizzas - Pizza Shop Newcastle' />

In my web stats I get a lot of hits from this method
Eddie

You're right.

What I wrote is correct, but not on topic and not for search engines. These tend to look at all info they can get.

Apologies.

I noticed that Tanchelyn said,

search engines. These tend to look at all info they can get. 

Nosey, aren't they?  ... and they gossip a bit, too. 

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Martin

TOO MUCH HTML - I'm going looney!!!