Can Lightroom 5 and Flickr store separate captions in two languages?
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I want to export photos from Lightroom 5 to Flickr or the web with captions in both English and Russian. Is there a way to keep the two languages separate, rather than combining them into one caption/description field?
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You can write bilingual captions in the exif data, but the text in both languages should be written in the same caption field.
If you want to have two exif fields with one caption each you could use another exif field for that purpose since you can not just add a "caption2" field to the exif data out of nowhere.
Same thing for flickr: You can add text in any language you want to the photo description, but all the text will be on the same photo description no matter what language you are writing in.
I tried to do something like this last year and writing everything into a single caption field and description was the less painful way to go. If you REALLY want to go for it no matter what, the best solution I can think of is to misuse one exif field for the alternate caption and then create or find a script that joins those two captions and dumps them into the flickr photo description.
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Generally, no. Lightroom/Flickr workflows typically use a single caption or description field, so both languages end up in the same metadata field.
If you need bilingual metadata, the practical option is to place both languages into one caption/description. That’s also how Flickr photo descriptions work: you can include multiple languages, but they will appear together in the same description.
A workaround is to repurpose another existing metadata field to hold the second language, but this is not standard and may not export or display the way you want across different services. You also can’t simply create a new EXIF field like a second caption field and expect Lightroom/Flickr to support it.
So the most reliable solution is a single bilingual caption, or maintaining separate export versions/workflows for each language outside the normal caption field system.
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