Re: Tags

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Send up the "tom!" bat signal. I'd be interested in the answer as well.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:28 AM
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Here is one user's musings on the subject. It would seem that some albums can read/write tags in the EXIF metadata, but support is spotty at best.


Posted by: dob | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:30 AM
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You're looking for Tom? Click click click.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:32 AM
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Yeah, that stuff needs to be in the portable meta info.

A friend suggested using Exifer. It looks like it might do, but I haven't even downloaded it. Also, it is a bit old.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:35 AM
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Roll your own photo-indexer! (And then share it, with the rest of us.)


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:40 AM
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We're talking about iPhoto here or something else?


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:41 AM
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I think you can do this on BeOS.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 10:55 AM
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Pardon my kludgey soul, but can't you just include "tags" in long file names?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:03 AM
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long file names

that would be teh kludgey


Posted by: blortch | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:05 AM
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Doesn't Tom dislike tags? All geeks look the same to you people? Racists.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:08 AM
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The near-equivalent of ID3 tags, platform independent, that you can add and attach to existing jpgs?

Let me know if you find something.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:13 AM
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I do this stuff in my day job, but we don't tag the images themselves. We use a database in an open format.

There are, iirc, exif tools around that will do some of this stuff. I'll find out [somewhere I have some information on this].


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:16 AM
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What about this?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:17 AM
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The new iPhoto lets you... oh. PC.
Ne'er mind!


Posted by: Alex! | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:18 AM
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The tag formats to google are IPTC and XMP (and EXIF, but EXIF is really for data the camera stores in the photo, not for tagging). Both serve the same purpose as ID3 and are platform independent.

As far as software that supports them well...
There is Lightroom if you want to spend serious money (it's $300 and designed for professional photographers). It does everything you want and much much much more. There's ACDSee, which has gotten better but still stores most metadata in its own database - it supports IPTC, but you have to go through a separate step to save your ACDSee metadata as IPTC metadata. There is Photoshop Elements, which I haven't used but does appear to (mostly) store metadata in the image files. Picasa stores metadata in files, but its tagging features are limited - it is free though.

There are also a bunch of free IPTC-aware tagging tools out there. XMP is even better, but it is pretty new, and not a lot supports it.

(Yes I know 'lurker' is a not a proper name, I'll come up with something better if I every post again :)


Posted by: lurker | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:18 AM
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It looks like Picasa, which I already use for red-eye fixing and stuff, supports IPTC.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:24 AM
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This seems like a good place for it...

ttaM, how do you like your new camera. Is it too heavy? Do you have to do a bunch of post-processing (a complaint I've seen about the Sonys)? Would you do it again? I see that your flickr shots don't have EXIF; that's your choice right?


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:26 AM
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(And thanks for educating me about IPTC in 15, lurker.)

OK, so I can use Picasa to tag my photos if I have to. Now - what about uploading? Is there a way to have my IPTC tags upload to Flickr?


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:44 AM
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Roll! Your! Own!

If flickr is really clever, it'll check for those tags itself.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 11:55 AM
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Actually, Flickr might check now. I'll have to run some tests tonight.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 12:13 PM
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How about a pony? Would you settle for that?


Posted by: Chris Conway | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 3:02 PM
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I considered making a joke about how I wanted this so I could upload all of my pictures of ponies.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 3:15 PM
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Your joke was not submitted before the deadline. No partial credit.


Posted by: Chris Conway | Link to this comment | 08-16-07 6:19 PM
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