On Jun 17, 3:00 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be nice if on import you could apply tags to all the imported > photos.
That's reasonable, it would be nice if picasa allowed me to enter characters other than A-Za-z0-9 into tags too. > For one it would be nice if it automatically took the camera > manufacturer, make, and model and put them in as tags as well as other > user defined tags such as location (not geo-tagging), event, etc... The information is already in specific EXIF or IPTC fields, the "tags" are just plain text in the EXIF:keywords field, I'd recommend playing around with the command line "exiftool" and exploring a photo if you're interested. eg, exiftool -s w_img_1858.jpg ExifToolVersion : 6.26 FileName : w_img_1858.jpg FileSize : 117 kB FileModifyDate : 2008:07:23 15:28:57 FileType : JPEG MIMEType : image/jpeg JFIFVersion : 1.1 Caption-Abstract : Emerson 1812 India Pale Ale Keywords : beer Country-PrimaryLocationCode : NZL Country-PrimaryLocationName : New Zealand ApplicationRecordVersion : 4 Make : Canon Model : Canon DIGITAL IXUS 700 : I've found a useful utility is "geosetter" http://www.geosetter.de (windows only) for copying the EXIF:GPS information into the tags (EXIF:keywords) Tags are just plain text and copying another EXIF field into a tag loses any inherent knowledge that the field had. For example, a tag of "Victoria" could be a girl's name, a state in Australia, a city in Canada or a dead English queen, but an EXIF field "EXIF:Province- State" with a value of Victoria makes it clear that it is the state. Is a tag of "canon" a camera manufacturer or a weapon? I'd leave the EXIF fields where they are, by all means add functionality to let picasa and other programs see the other information and use it or search on it. Adrian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
