I wish there was an easier way of sorting photos. But I realize some of us are organizationally-challenged and that’s half the fun. In a $5-per-truckload-second-hand-store kind of way. Sure, bring it all home if you don’t mind spending a week at the laundromat. …[continued]
IPTC
I understand the old system of adding photo information to the front of photos is still in practice. And being taught. In other words, draw a wide border on your photo and type onto it. …[continued]
As I’m going through my photos I’m filling in missing addresses and GPS co-ordinates. I’ve worked on this before but I actually missed a few out of 12,000. Because addresses repeat across the years, as I go through my folders I have to scroll through a longer and longer unsorted list of addresses and co-ordinates to find what I need. …[continued]
I hope none of you got struck down by the Windows Live Photo Gallery disaster, (Windows 7 Live Photo Gallery: GPS Nightmare & Windows Live Photo Gallery & EXIF Damage) although, I already know that’s not possible or true. …[continued]
If you ever wonder where I go when I’m gone, I pitched a tent over at Geoff Coupe’s blog a couple of weeks ago where we’ve been surveying the damage hour by hour around the clock. …[continued]
If you’re starting to get onto embedding IPTC and GPS in your photos and you also need something for free, GeoSetter is the program. It’s been around for a long time and people rave about good it is. …[continued]
No matter what I’ve said about photo annotation in the past, (and I’ve said a lot) it’s better you read from the present backwards.
It’s been a learning process for me too and some things I’ve tried in the past, and might have even liked at the time, I wouldn’t go back to. …[continued]
Subtitle: When the standard of IPTC is non-standard.
Back in March I wrote a rambling discourse on various options for searching files, (Searching Files) and, in particular, searching metadata in photos. This is what I wrote about Windows Search 4: …[continued]
Awhile ago I was talking about Opanda IExif Viewer and how handy it is as a quick metadata and GPS viewer. I’m not so thrilled anymore since I’ve discovered it doesn’t work on all my jpg’s, just some of them. I’m past having patience for half-assed IPTC software. ExifToolGUI works, Photo Mechanic works, XnView works. Software that can’t keep up should get out of the game and stop being so irritating. …[continued]
The subject of IPTC comes up over and over. And it’s been awhile since I did a general review of options. I’m not keen to download a lot of new programs onto my computer to try because I don’t need any more of them. But I installed one called iTag to have a second look.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from iTag‘s “About Page”:
The inspiration for iTag came after scanning photos from old family photo albums. Some photos had labels and captions – but many did not.
Realizing that the massive volume of digital photos being accumulated were tagged with even less data, a digital captioning solution was required.
First, I’ll review some of the other things I’ve tried. …[continued]
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hope everyone survived Christmas in good shape. I usually do because the closest I ever come to eating sugar is steamed carrots. At my age, even a thin slice of fruit-cake could kill me. …[continued]
Anyone else over the Moon about Photo Mechanic or is it just me? I’ve gotten more photo work done in the past 2 weeks working at it part-time than I have in the entire two years previous staying up all night. It makes me wonder what I was doing all that time. I decided my time is worth more than 2ยข an hour, and it was time to invest $150 and git ‘er done.
If you’re looking to annotate your photos for searching and the edification of future generations, this is it. Photo Mechanic is sublime. Every time I look I find another useful feature. Here’s some of my favorites so far:
