Mike Gemünde-2 wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 28.08.2010, 18:59 -0700 schrieb Piergi: >> Myself I use a different approach: I do tagging and commenting with >> geeqie >> ($ sudo aptitude install geeqie), then I add copyright and stuff with >> exiperson (http://exiflow.sourceforge.net)--a perl script that uses >> exiftool--and after that I import everything in f-spot. > > Interesting. I'm currently working on a GUI (for f-spot) for editing > some basic metadata of images. This includes e.g. the Author/Creator, > Title, Comment (, Copyright?). I'm also thinking about to have some > presets for different persons. So it would be nice, if you can explain > your use case of setting metadata to me. >
This sounds very similar to the Digikam interface: please please make it less cumbersome and less mouse-only! :D Here goes my experience: I've always used f-spot, but when I tried DigiKam I've noticed a whole lot of possibilities inhandling metadata, notably the introduction of author, copyright and such. Unfortunately, I stumbled upon two problems. 1: doing the tagging in Digikam is *crazy*: you have to put tags one by one, drag-dropping the tag, no auto-completion and very confusing and cluttered interface (keep in mind I am using an Eeepc, so size does matter for me). Other than that, Digikam when «writing all metadata to images» does OK, but when «updating metadata» it just *erase* all other tags except the updated ones. This is obviously a show-stopper. 2: somehow the XMP from f-spot was producing an error (XMP error 102), but not all of the times, and I have not been able to reproduce that. Sometimes I get the error, sometimes I don't. The details in this other thread: http://old.nabble.com/XMP-Toolkit-error-102-td29049391.html So I am now doing it my own way. Mostly command-line. Here is the workflow. A. I download the photos in a folder and then I run exirename on it (http://exiflow.sourceforge.net) renaming the photos with their holy scheme :) B. I add author and copyright with exiperson (also exiflow), there is a configuration file that adds the data based on the camera model. I could do the same with exiftool, but it is just easier this way. Actually I just have one camera, but often I download photos from people I meet during my trip, and I think it is correct to put their name embedded in the photo, because I am publishing those photos on a website. C. I do the tagging with geeqie, because it writes «the right way», meaning that I don't get the «error 102», plus it has this magic feature where you can assign a number (1 to 6) to a tag, and then you go through the photos attaching one or more numbers to it and they get automagically tagged. *Very* fast way of tagging a bunch of photos (hint! hint!) [1] D. At the same time I put comment (description?) with geeqie, that when uploaded to the web it will appear as caption in my galleries, very handy. [2] E. I do photo editing (GIMP) and then I copy the metadata from the original with exiftool ($ exiftool -overwrite_original -tagsfromfile 20100827-c102535-pt000.jpg -all:all 20100827-c102535-pt100.jpg), making sure it copies *all* the metadata to *all* the fields (the «-all:all» flag, since they have a bizarre priority EXIF->IPTC->XMP, check the man page). F. I move the photos into ~/Photos/2010 and I import the folder in f-spot, with «don't copy to photos folder» and «detect duplicates», then I do «exiflow merge revisions». I am using the 0.6.1.5, because the other 0.6s are crashing like crazy, and the 0.7s lack the exiflow extension and the metadata panel, so I can't check my tags are actually there after the import. I hope I did not forget anything. [1] Actually I've read of somebody doing that with the f-spot rating thing: he rates 1 to 5, then selects, say, the 4 and adds a same tag to those photos, then removes the rating and so on. [2] The «description» and the «title» written with geeqie do not appear in the «comment» in f-spot. What field are you guys exactly using? I will put my wish-list in a next message :) Thanks for the good job! Piergi -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/critical-missing-feature%3A-embedding-tags-in-EXIF-IPTC-tp29562916p29566489.html Sent from the Gnome - F-Spot mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
