IPTCExt is a cool free shell extension for the Windows file explorer that adds shell support for viewing and editing IPTC info in JPEG image files.

IPTC is a standard of The International Press Telecommunications Council, and was designed to identify transmitted text and images.

This standard includes entries for captions, keywords, categories, credits, and origins. IPTC is supported by programs such as Adobe Photoshop, PhotoThumb, and most professional image database software.

You can easily add these extra columns to your directory-display, thereby getting you new sort and filter criterias in the windows explorer.

In file attribute menu you can view IPTC fields on extra pages in the property sheet for jpeg files that allows you to edit IPTC data for one or multiple files.

If you edit multiple files, a separate progress/cancel dialog is displayed, so that you can cancel the operation at any time.

Now all I have to do is find out, how I manage to have separate column setups for directory trees, as the whole system of shell extension is already used by the version control plugins Tortoise CVS for the CVS version control system