Hello again Jordan. Here are some changes I made in this file Enfold: contact.css (config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/contact/contact.css)
but for some reason it is not working.

Starts at line 232
/*custom form colors*/
#top .av-custom-form-color *{color:inherit;}
#top .av-custom-form-color a{text-decoration: underline;}
#top .av-custom-form-color ::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: inherit; opacity: 0.4;}
#top .av-custom-form-color ::-moz-placeholder { color: inherit; opacity: 0.4; }
#top .av-custom-form-color :-ms-input-placeholder { color:inherit; opacity: 0.4;}
#top .av-custom-form-color .button{border: 2px solid;}
#top .av-custom-form-color .button:hover{}

#top .av-light-form, #top .av-light-form + .ajaxresponse *{color:#fff;}
#top .av-light-form + .ajaxresponse .avia-form-success{background: rgba(255,255,255,0.4); }

#top div .av-light-form .input-text, #top div .av-light-form input[type=’text’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’input’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’password’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’email’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’number’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’url’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’tel’], #top div .av-light-form input[type=’search’], #top div .av-light-form textarea, #top div .av-light-form select, div div .av-light-form .button{
color: #fff;
border-color: #fff;
border-width: 2px !important;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4);
}

#top .av-dark-form, #top .av-dark-form + .ajaxresponse *{color:#ffffff;}
#top .av-dark-form + .ajaxresponse .avia-form-success{background: rgba(255,110,14,0.4); }

#top div .av-dark-form .input-text, #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’text’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’input’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’password’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’email’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’number’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’url’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’tel’], #top div .av-dark-form input[type=’search’], #top div .av-dark-form textarea, #top div .av-dark-form select, div div .av-dark-form .button{
color: #222;
border-color: #222;
border-width: 2px !important;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4);
}

Thanks Mike,
thats useful.
I just enabled ImageMagick on my server.
But what do i need to do next?
Regenerating thumbnails is not a good idea since i run Shortpixels.
At what point does Enfold generate thumbnails?
– When uploading into the media library??
– When adding images into a gallery??

EDIT
I uploaded the images again, added them into the gallery and it works.
You can check here with fresh images:
dev.maskenzauber.com/iptc-test/

But it seems as if ImageMagick slows down my site dramatically.
Only when generating images or always???

Another way could be this:
Tell Google/Bing not to spider/index thumbnails via x-robots-tag.
Its not the best way but at least you dont pollute your SEO with untagged images
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/39286/how-to-get-google-and-bing-to-index-original-image-not-thumbnail
https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag

“Since WordPress doesn’t offer this functionality and Enfold doesn’t add it,”
You still miss the point.

1: Keeping Metadata is NOT a “functionality”.
Stripping metadata is a bug.
Again: Metadata usually stays in the file when you make a copy or edit and you need to be active to get rid of it.
So there must be something that says “delete the metadata”.
That means, your idea of finding a plugin is irrelevant and completely points in the wrong direction.
It is as if i first destroy your car and then say “You need to find a spare parts dealer”
Not crashing your car is not a functionality.

1.1: “I also notice that the “IPTC” data is not easily available in image software (on Windows) only EXIF is shown in my software.”
Thats irrelevant.
Its in the file…if you see it or not….it doesnt matter.
Google “sees” them and takes it into account for delivering images to users.
No IPTC = bad SEO

2: The theme is in charge.
So it can overwrite the standards by hooks, functions and whatever.
That means: Enfold could influence that behaviour

3: Deleting the metadata is a severe thing to do.
Like i said before: It can cause very expensive lawsuits.
Imagine a photographer or a stock agency like Shutterstock makes it mandatory to put their credit as a metadata in the file.
And then they find a file which doesnt.
What do you think they will do?

4: Enfold advertises with “SEO friendly” but this is definitely not “SEO-friendly”
You might say that Enfold in this point is not worse than any other themes because maybe they all do it like that….but if you really want to be “SEO friendly” you should follow your own claim and make it do it right
If you dont understand why it is not SEO-friendly” imagine this:
A photographer has 1000 photos, tagged carefully.
Now Enfold comes along and creates for every file at least 6 other versions
So there are 6000 images
5000 does not contain the keywords, the Author, the copyright and so on.
Can you advice Google not to spider/index the thumbnails?
No, you cant.
Does google like to index dublettes/duplicate content?
No it does.
So whats the result?
The most images which end up in Google does not contain any metadata.

And maybe you know that image search is a relevant source for SEO, do you?
That means:
Any theme that delete metadata boycotts any attempt to get visitors via Google image search.

Here are some links:

https://www.foregroundweb.com/image-seo/

Finaly:
If you really want to stand out of the crowd, if you really want to build a theme thats a win for photographers and designers…… you will fix it.
Will you?

Hi,
To hopefully end this debate

This is the data from an original testfile which was on my server at the moment when i made that screenshot
As obvious: It contains metadata.
maskenzauber.com/temp/IPTC-with.jpg

This is the so called thumbnail (705×470)which has been generated by Enfold from the testfile.
It contains no more metada
maskenzauber.com/temp/IPTC-without.jpg

And more:
There is no difference between metadata & IPTC
IPTC IS metadata.
Its just a standardized vocabulary.

Tipps:
1: Google for “photographer Enfold” or “Fotograf Enfold” and find some
2: Do a sitesearch for the founded sites (site:domain) in imagesearch
3: Flip through the images and check some images and you will find what i described

Thank you for your …answer.
Can you be a little more specific, please? Because you just gave me the link to the entire enfold documentation. It’s almost the same thing as giving me the link to the search engine.
And thank you again.

Hi Nikko,

Thank you. That was helpful. If your support would have provided the relevant articles in the FAQ parallel to the answers of the support search, I could have saved you the work of an answer.

By the way, what I find extremely annoying is that Envato in the tolken’s registration process only sets a checkmark next to “View and Search Envato sites” when issuing the token. This means that if you don’t read this text carefully, you have no chance of understanding that this is not sufficient for registration. This is about the tenth licence I’ve bought from Enfold (I have a separate account for Highschool Australia), and it was never a problem with the first ones after implementing the tolken thing.

And the Envato people are too stupid or too arrogant to point out in a support request that possibly the wrong or too few checkmarks have been set. Incidentally, I’ve already had a run-in with them once, because it’s a real problem to understand how the licences and invoices are to be issued to my customers. They are not really helpful and friendly. This note please with greetings to Kriesi.

Otherwise many thanks for your as always great help.

Harald

Ismael,

Don’t know if this new issue is related to the code addition, but it might be, so I thought I would tell you about the new issue here (you could move it to another ‘thread’ if it is not associated with the removal of the portfolio-item permalink).

It’s pretty simple: We have developed this new site for this client in the “Staging” area on GoDaddy. We just ‘pushed’ the site to “Live” (and clicked on “Overwrite”), and none of the icons are showing up [ Magnifying glass for search (in menu and footer on “Home” page); Icons in blue circles (on “About” page); book icons in the blue circles (on the “Resources” page) ]. (I think that is all that is missing).

“Staging” Site (everything seems to work just fine):

“Live” Site (missing icons):

Is this related to the removal of the permalinks? (and/or related to the icon font?)

If this is not ‘transferring’ properly, could there be other things in the future that might not go from Staging to Live using Enfold with GoDaddy?

Thanks for your help,

Mark Besh
Visual Impact Systems