Dear All, One of the important needs that I have is to have EXIF metadata for images easily and rapidly available for those people that I communicate with and who are (still) working in Microsoft and who are using a wide array of software to view and manage images. The problem has two facets: 1) Metadata pertaining to the original images. Dt writes metadata to Sidecar files outside of the RAW images (CR2 in my case). I think this is a good solution. After all, I am the only likely person to handle or process the original images. 2) Metadata of derivative images arising from "developing" or processing of original RAW images. For myself, these are typically JPEG or TIFF files. These are the images often shared with others. Having these images in a Sidecar file is unproductive, because only Dt can truly understand the content of the Sidecar files that it wrote. Even Digikam has a problem with understanding the Sidecar files generated by Dt. A better solution would be to incorporate the Metadata (of which the image description is the most important; e.g. "Extent of burned grassland at Exeter at the end of the 2009 dry season") into the JPG or TIFF image itself. However, the proviso is that it should be done in a way that almost any imaging software can display this information. At the moment I put this information in the file name but it is a highly inconvenient and inefficient approach. I appears that there are strong limitations imposed by the EXIF specification. For instance, it appears that a "Title" or "Caption" identifier is not normally allowed. Moving to IPTC is an obvious possibility, but few imaging programs support this.
Is there an obvious way out that I have overlooked? Kind regards, Willem Ferguson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
