On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 21:21 +0100, Ray Allinson wrote: > I have been scanning some old 'steam camera' photos.Aafter cropping in > SimpleScan I save the images in a folder /Photos/Scanned Photos then, > when I have done ten or so I import the folder to Shotwell. > I then adjust the Date to the Day Month and Year when (I guess!) the > picture was taken. > I was expecting to find a new 'Year' folder for 1989 and sub-folders for > the Months, but what Shotwell seems to have done is to file all the > scanned images in 'No Event' mixed in with a lot of other images, some > with no date/time info and others which are scanned images dated 2011 on > which the date refers to the date scanned (I think). > Can any one explain why this has happened, and tell me what I should do > next? > Ray > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
I've been through this process myself, but with images I'd already scanned into folders named for the year and order in which the negatives were developed. I'd have: ./1977-01/IMG001.jpg ./1977-01/IMG002.jpg ... ./1977-01/IMG036.jpg ./1977-02/IMG001.jpg ... and so on, but when I used Shotwell to import these folders none of them was attached to an event because the scanner hadn't put in the relevant EXIF data. After some experimentation with other methods, I evolved a file-dating convention which allows me to get back to the original negative by mapping the folder name into a date (1977-01 is 1st Jan 1977, 1977-02 is 2nd Jan 1977 and so on) and the image number into the time in seconds from 12 noon (occasionally there are images on a spool before number 1). The following is part of a script I used to add these dates to my images... exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1977:01:01 12:00:01" IMG001.jpg exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1977:01:01 12:00:02" IMG002.jpg exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1977:01:01 12:00:03" IMG003.jpg exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1977:01:01 12:00:04" IMG004.jpg ... When I imported the images from these folders, each folder (i.e. each film) got its own Shotwell event. Of course, if you can be more precise about the dates on your images, you can use the same technique with accurate dates. My method stays in line with the way I have stored my negatives, and I can use tags to mark particular events recorded on the images. Best of luck! Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
