Its primary advantage is that most image editing and management programs can read and write its widely compatible fields. Often called 'legacy' IPTC, this schema was developed in the early 1990s, primarily to aid news organizations in captioning early digital images. But JPEG, TIFF, PSD, Raw and several other file formats can include any or all the following standard types of metadata: Not all image file formats have these compartments. In that box - as in a Japanese bento box - are sections or compartments.Īs trays in a bento box hold several types of food, virtual compartments in image files can hold several types of data – from the pixels that make up the image to the text that identifies and describes the image.