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]
photo-filing
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]
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]
Another caveat for all you Picasa lovers. If you have keywords embedded in photos outside Picasa do not expect Picasa to know that unless they’re jpg’s.
You can double your work by adding tags (keywords) to your tiff’s in Picasa too. It’s a fun thing to do because Picasa will then allow you to search them. But, unless you are 100% done with your ‘real’ photo work and have time to add this as icing to your cake, I would discourage you from wasting your time on it. …[continued]
Aaaahhh. A trip to IPTC & GPS heaven. Run, don’t walk. I’m not making a cent from this. Photo Mechanic. Click on the Demo button and follow what they say. 20-day free trial and then $150. I know … ouch. But, if this doesn’t send you into paroxysms of photo-annotating ecstasy I’ll eat my shoes.
Here’s the short version: …[continued]
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]
Picasa 3 has been out for awhile and has lots of fun new features. Today, I’ll look at geotagging.
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.
2010 update: MediaDex has been defunct since 2008. It’s now called Canto Single User. I don’t recommend it. If you’re looking for good IPTC software, try Photo Mechanic or GeoSetter.
Only because I have eyes in the back of my head, I know that some of you have tackled MediaDex for your IPTC ambitions, or are in the midst of tackling, and you’d probably like to shoot me for even suggesting it. But if it’s not too late, I’m going to reveal some of the inner workings of this mysterious software.
