Here’s the short version: …[continued]
November 2009
I have to get back to work tomorrow, so this is the end of my weekend indulgence.
Before you get too excited about ACDSee Pro, it does not deal with GPS on tiff’s at all. Nada. Major strike against.
All the software being discussed here shares GPS on jpg’s. So, if you add GPS using Yahoo Maps in Adobe Elements or Google Maps in Picasa, they will import to each other as well as to ACDSee Pro, XnView and MediaDex. …[continued]
Sometimes, it’s tempting to try to tell a long story under a photograph but after experimenting with 5 different programs, I would recommend limiting your IPTC Captions to one line. People’s names, for instance, and a date, if you must. Otherwise, you could run into printing problems. …[continued]
I just got a newsletter from Marlo Schuldt saying that his Heritage Collector software is now able to embed IPTC metadata. My ears perk up whenever I hear IPTC. Good one, Marlo.
A long time ago, Marlo and I had a very long conversation about filing systems and family history and life’s quirky little moments and everything else under the sun … It went on for several months over hundreds of emails. I didn’t like his, then new, software. I thought it was too boxed in and heading for trouble. He thought I was flying too far out of the box. So, after enjoying our friendship, he went back to working on his software and I went on to become a rabid fan of IPTC. …[continued]
Awhile ago I recommended Picasa 3 to you. It’s fun and interesting and all that but there’s a little problem with backups. Picasa does offer the option of backing up your entire photo collection but it’s labour-intensive, inefficient and redundant. If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you should already be keeping at least one up-to-date backup of your entire photo collection. The issue here is backing up the work you do in Picasa. …[continued]
Have you come across a search engine by the name of Pipl? The reason I found it is because they’ve linked to a few dozen pages from past incarnations of my website. And I’m writing to them all the time asking them to update the links or delete them. …[continued]
