Hey, thanks! I've been ignoring this stuff for a long time, and it's finally
catching up with me.
--Bob
On Aug 27, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Moose wrote:
> 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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