Introduction

The IPTC provides standards for photo metadata for more than a decade:

• In the early 1990's IPTC's Information Interchange Model (IIM) standard was adopted to provide metadata fields in digital image files. This set of metadata is called "IPTC data", "IPTC fields" or "IPTC header".
• In 2005 the IPTC released the "IPTC Core" standard for metadata based on Adobe's technical XMP framework.

This page reflects how these standards are implemented by digital photo management software.
The information was provided by the corresponding software vendor and IPTC provide them "as is", no software was tested for standard conformance by the IPTC.
(Note to software vendors: email a request to office@iptc.org if you want to add your photo software.)

List of software products - in alphabetical order, follow the link

• ACDSee Pro - 8.1
• Adobe Acrobat - 8
• Adobe After Effects Pro - 7.0
• Adobe After Effects Std - 7.0
• Adobe Audition - 2.0
• Adobe Bridge - CS2
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium - 2
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard - 2
• Adobe Encore DVD - 2.0
• Adobe Illustrator - CS2
• Adobe InCopy - CS2
• Adobe InDesign - CS2
• Adobe Photoshop - CS2
• Adobe Premiere Pro - 2.0
• Adobe Production Studio Premium - .
• Adobe Production Studio Standard - .
• BreezeBrowser Pro - 1.6
• Canto Cumulus - 7.x
• Caption Edit - 1.02
• Captivate - .
• Carpe camera - 2.0
• Contribute - 4
• DC - 5
• Digital Railroad - 2.0
• Downloader Pro - 2.0
• Dreamweaver - 8
• ExifTool - 6.42
• EXIFutils - 2.7
• Exiv2 - 0.11
• Fireworks - 8
• Flash Pro - 8
• FotoStation Pro - 6.0
• FotoWare Color Factory - 6.0
• FotoWare FotoWeb - 6.0
• FotoWare Index Manager - 6.0
• GraphicConverter - 5.9.4
• IDimager - 3.4
• Image Info Toolkit - 2.0.1.8
• Imagero - 1.95
• IMatch - The Digital Image Management Solution - 3.5
• IrfanView - 3.98
• iView MediaPro - 3.1.2
• Kalimages - 2.1.3
• libiptcdata - 0.2.1
• MediaDex - 1.0
• METAmachine - 1.1
• myCONTENT - 2.3
• NSCS Pro - 3.0
• Orphea Studio - 3.9
• Photo Mechanic - 4.5
• PhotoShelter - 1.0
• PHP JPEG Metadata Toolkit - 1.11
• PicaJet - 2.5
• Profium Metadata Server & News Solution - 4.3.1
• RoboFolder - 1.1
• RoboImport - 1.1
• StockView - 5.6
• Third Light Image Management System - IMS - 5.0
• ThumbsPlus - 7.0
• XnView - 1.82.4

Key to table below:
Supported OS: indicates versions of Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, or a kind of Unix/Linux.
Supports IIM: whether metadata of the IIM standards can be read or written
Supports XMP and IPTC Core: whether metadata of the IPTC Core can be read or written, as IPTC Core is built on Adobe's XMP its supports is a prerequisite.
Synchronizes IIM/Core values: indicates the direction of synchronzing values: 1/ only from IIM to IPTC Core, 2/ only from IPTC Core to IIM, 3/ both directions, 4/ no synchronization is available at all.