On 8/27/2011 11:23 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Okay, just learned a new trick that beats shouting at idiots on the TV. You
> can put your file info into a template and automatically load it into each
> image. I filled out one form with everything but the description and key
> words, then hit the export button, made up a name for the template, and when
> it came time for the next shot, I called up the info dialogue box, hit
> import, selected my file, and voila! the data was automatically inserted into
> place. All I had to put in was the title, description and keywords.
>
> Life is good.
All that can be done with one pass of exiftool.exe per directory, or even
directory and sub-directories. This, for
example, copies all the EXIF and all other metadata from my original, RAW files
to the web images I've created:
- Copy all exif tag from CR2 files in one directory plus copyright tag to
matching named JPEGs in another directory.
C:\Programs\exiftool\exiftool -TagsFromFile
"M:\Pictures\Canon\A60\2011_07_12\%f.CR2" -exif:all -r -overwrite_original
-ext jpg "-copyright=© Moose, 2011 All rights reserved - moose at moosemystic
dot net"
"M:\Pictures\Canon\A60\201_07_12\Web"
This has to be run in windoze from an 'MS-DOS Prompt' window (OSX see below).
Whenever file names match, it does the
copy, and summarizes the number changes or not changed. It may be run so that
it keeps the original file, as well. I did
that at first, but it's slower and I never had a problem, so I stopped.
Exiftool is the gold standard for metadata manipulation of all kinds. Many,
many apps that work on metadata, including
geotagging, use exiftool underneath. When I was shooting with A710, then A650
and the CHDK hacks, there was no EXIF data
at all in the .CRW output files from the camera. For each day's shooting, I
needed to run exiftool to copy metadata from
the camera JPEGs to the converted TIFFs. It always worked perfectly.
The syntax is sometimes obscure, but the documentation is comprehensive, and it
will do almost anything you can imagine
to metadata, seamlessly and accurately. Although I simply save examples of
syntax for things I do in a text file, the
app Mike linked to, Exifmixer <http://www.moonsoftware.com/exifmixer.asp>
looks like it will do a lot of that sort of
stuff via a windoze interface.
I know exiftool is available for OSX, but know nothing about use. This seems to
say how to automate it.
<http://www.cameratechnica.com/2011/03/06/photo-file-surgery-use-exiftool-and-mac-automator-to-hack-the-contents-of-your-photo-files/>
I gave up on Save for Web in PS many years ago both for quality reasons (which
may be gone now) and because it strips
out the metadata. Although I generally do each web image individually, using
Actions, as a part of processing,
FastStone has quite a good batch conversion capability with advanced options
for resizing with adjustable sharpening,
etc. I used it for the Three Days in Brooklyn book to reduce all the full size
images to the exact pixel dimensions for
the book process and slightly sharpen for the book printing. I think you'll
agree that it worked very well. I assume
there's likely something similar for Macs?
EXIF Moose
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