Picasa 3 has been out for awhile and has lots of fun new features. Today, I’ll look at geotagging.
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Every once in awhile I get into a photo-starvation state. So many ancestors, so relatively few photos and when I ask, this is what I get: “There are no more family photographs, you have them all.” Then, when I get really busy with something else, someone finds another batch and sends them off to me for scanning.
IPTC is a standard for embedding metadata in photographs. This is a summary of what is and isn’t IPTC-compatible software.
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Email from a reader:
I have studied all your postings on digital photo organization. I am at a brick wall and I need some help.
I have been using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0. I like the way it functions. However, for some reason, it keeps crashing on my computer. I believe this is because the program was written such a long time ago that XP is having difficulty with it.
I know. It’s been a slow week at JLog but I can’t be everywhere at once. And I know you’re all busy checking out the new Legacy Charting anyway. I can hardly compete for excitement.
I’m just down in the muck of IPTC and photo-filing. It’s almost enough to make me want to burn my hard-drive and take up crocheting.
I had a touch of insomnia last night so I decided I’d zip through the weeks’ collection of things to look at. I made it through 8 of 100. So much for zipping at 3AM. Deleted 6, downloaded and installed trials of the other two. Both winners.
