Dick, Your question looks more related to Photo Mechanic than to BBEdit and you might get a more informed help from the Photo Mechanic forum :
http://forums.camerabits.com If you search for "BBEdit" there are a few posts. Best regards, Jean Jourdain On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 5:51:37 PM UTC+1 Bruce Van Allen wrote: > 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 > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2dcd16bb-ea73-4e35-85b5-743a46bd2272n%40googlegroups.com.
