Summer is over for millions of students across the country, and the SAA Photo Metadata Project is set to resume educating photographic professionals with more getMETAsmart events. In Chicago, starting at 2:30 on Thursday, Sept. 24, metadata guru David Riecks will splice his three-hour program between events set for ASPP and ASMP. In Atlanta, Riecks will present SAA's informational seminar and tutorials at Big Studio, starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10.

All getMETAsmart events are free to interested imaging professionals who register in advance at www.photometadata.org. All who attend can also register for a free raffle featuring valuable professional software and services from Adobe, Microsoft, Camera Bits, Photoshelter, and now, liveBooks.

The Chicago event at Prairie Production at 1314 W. Randolph Street, will fit between the American Society of Picture Professionals' Midwest education day and an evening presentation by Judy Herrmann of the American Society of Media Photographers. While those events require an admission fee, the getMETAsmart seminar will be free to all registrants, whether they attend the ASPP seminars, ASMP's presentation, both or neither.

David Riecks will travel to Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 10, to share the metadata message with Southeast professionals at Big Studio, 881 W. Marietta Street N.W. This promises to be a good gathering of photographers, editors, archivists and image users from around the Peach State and the Southeast. Your free admission includes refreshments and a chance to win a copy of Adobe Photoshop, Camera Bits Photo Mechanic, Microsoft Expression Media, or web services from Photoshelter and liveBooks.