My first digital shooting: Canon 50D

Alan Justice wrote,on my timestamp of 27/11/2008 4:35 AM:


I do that now with slides. Keywords go in the Excel file. And I print
labels for each one. Very time-consuming. I'm guessing it will be a little
faster with digital. I haven't decided whether to add the info to my slide
database. I expect it will be easier, as I just have to do one search.

If you scan, then simply add whatever you want
to the scanned files using exiftools.
As simple and non-time consuming as it can get.

"Noons" wrote in message
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Alan Justice wrote,on my timestamp of 27/11/2008 4:35 AM:


I do that now with slides. Keywords go in the Excel file. And I print
labels for each one. Very time-consuming. I'm guessing it will be a
little
faster with digital. I haven't decided whether to add the info to my
slide
database. I expect it will be easier, as I just have to do one search.

If you scan, then simply add whatever you want
to the scanned files using exiftools.
As simple and non-time consuming as it can get.

I scan a very small proportion. Just those to be printed, or to backup some
of the better ones before sending the slides to magazines.

Can keywords be added as a batch command? I don't recall an exif tool in PS
6. What is it?


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Alan Justice

Alan Justice wrote,on my timestamp of 28/11/2008 3:39 AM:

Can keywords be added as a batch command?

Of course. You create a text file with the keywords
and run it against the image files.

I don't recall an exif tool in PS
6. What is it?

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/


Oh: you have to know what a "command line" is...

Alan Justice wrote:
"Noons" wrote in message
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Alan Justice wrote,on my timestamp of 27/11/2008 4:35 AM:

I do that now with slides. Keywords go in the Excel file. And I print
labels for each one. Very time-consuming. I'm guessing it will be a
little
faster with digital. I haven't decided whether to add the info to my
slide
database. I expect it will be easier, as I just have to do one search.
If you scan, then simply add whatever you want
to the scanned files using exiftools.
As simple and non-time consuming as it can get.

I scan a very small proportion. Just those to be printed, or to backup some
of the better ones before sending the slides to magazines.

Can keywords be added as a batch command? I don't recall an exif tool in PS
6. What is it?

In Bridge you can batch just about anything.

In LR, same.

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john mcwilliams