On 23 Feb 2021, at 6:20, Dick Ayers wrote:
Hi Greg. Okay so how do I open the photo file in BBEdit?
This seems to be part of the problem: BBEdit is a text editor, used for
writing computer code, among lots of other uses. But it doesn’t do
anything directly with photos or other image files.
Somehow, the Photo Mechanic guidance you’re getting is leaving out an
important piece of the process. I expect that your questions are better
directed to the Photo Mechanic support folks.
I looked at their intro video and didn’t see anything about BBEdit, so
that’s probably not the video you mentioned. But the gist of it is
that you would be opening photos in Photo Mechanic, browsing, culling,
and moving the photo files around. It’s Photo Mechanic that would be
doing any saving, and it appears to have settings for where files go
when you import (“ingest”) them.
Here’s a guess: Perhaps you’re trying to use Photo Mechanic to place
some photos online for others to view? I can see how they might suggest
using BBEdit for modifying/editing the website files (HTML), which is
one of BBEdit’s popular uses. But what BBEdit does is help you work on
the text files that are behind the web pages viewers see. In the HTML
code for web pages, it’s possible to place an image in a page and add
a caption for it. Am I getting warm?
Photo Mechanic appears to offer extensive capabilities to add and change
a photo’s meta-data (info such as where the photo was taken, the
equipment used, etc.). So, perhaps they offer some way to edit that
metadata with a text editor such as BBEdit, although that wouldn’t
normally be the way to provide a caption visible to viewers of the
photo.
People on this BBEdit list try to be helpful, but so far I think we’re
stumped as to what your exact problem is, and whether it’s with BBEdit
or something else.
Perhaps you could add some more information, without assuming we know
anything about Photo Mechanic. Can you quote from the instructions that
lead you to BBEdit? What’s your larger goal with the photo?
HTH,
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca
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