Hi All, I'm a happy novice Shotwell user.
I'd like to start tagging my photos. At bit of hunting around leads me to believe that IPTC offers me the best chance of persistent tagging of my photos that extends beyond the boundaries of whatever tool I am using to view them. This is attractive to me for many reasons. My wife uses Picasa which I believe should be able to read and write those tags too. If I send my photos to somebody else or perhaps an online service then I know my tags are going with them. Basically, I'd like to tag my photos once, now and never again. So I've updated to Shotwell 0.6 which I believe can read and write these tags. But I'm not quite clear on how the write function works. Is it necessary for me to Export in order to write the tags? If I simply tag an image in Shotwell it doesn't seem to modify the original file. When I select Export it gives me compression settings. I'd prefer not to modify my image data (non destructive is a very attractive shotwell feature for me.) I did find some discussions of whether Shotwell should write the IPTC tags as they are changed or whether to reduce overhead it should not. Does 0.6 not automatically update the tags? I'm looking for a simple procedure to persistently tag my photos. My workflow goes something like this: Upload the files to my server. Import the photos to shotwell (as links). Tag the images with place, people, event information. Any advice from list members about how to achieve this would be much appreciated. cheers, david _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
