![]() ![]() (in reality I archive raw and catalogue jpg copies.If necessary, I'll be able to generate xmp sidecars from jpg's, and carry them into raw folders). The great diversity of raw formats, the absence of standardisation (as exists for jpg) and the reluctance of many users or developers to embed XMP metadata into files meant that I refused to attempt this operation, and I prefer to use sidecars to add my metadata, although sidecars are an inelegant solution. Since then, I've been using IPTC and XMP in parallel before I will be sure to abandon iptc, maybe in 2024. ![]() ![]() IPTC 'agreed' to be integrated into this format (iptc4xmp, iptc ext : it's not a survival of iptc, it's xmp that can mirror iptc ), and the most recent software supports xmp. Then XMP came along and offered to provide fields corresponding to those in IPTC for compatibility purposes. For a long time, many software packages only supported IPTC. Marking your photos is a big job that needs to be done consistently and thought through over the long, or very long, term.Īt the end of the 90s, IPTC seemed to offer these guarantees and I was wary of Adobe and its proprietary xmp format. I advised friends and colleagues along these lines. One more program that I often call upon is Advanced Renamer it can do all sorts of things that I have not yet learned how to do plus, it can remove, replace, or add numbers, symbols, or letters, to either end or anywhere in the middle of a whole batch of filenames.I've always tried to find the best compatibility for metadata, and the most likely stability and universality of methods. to rename and organize images that are already in the computer (mostly other peoples images/computers), where someone else has either not followed any organizational plan at all, or done a random hack job at renaming that only made sense at the time and is forever after a mystery. copies the image pairs, RAW and Large jpeg, from the memory card to organized dated folders and custom renames them in the process, providing the same name for all image pairs. The first being FastStone FastStone is the backbone and workhorse of everything else I do with image files everything else I do begins and ends in FastStone. I do have two programs that I would be crippled without unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, both are Windows Only. Same here I jump around from program to program, using whichever is best suited for the task at hand. I’m fine with using multiple programs for tasks to which they are most suited Does anybody have experience with this? Any other ideas or suggestions? Something I haven’t been able to test is the compatibility of the metadata of each program with LR and Photo Mechanic. Also, IPTC doesn’t seem to have a “title” field, which seems like a shortcoming.ĭigiKam has a more professional feel to it. From what I understand, XMP is the future. I really like XnView’s batch processes, but of course I could use those even if I did the DAM with digiKam.ĭigiKam writes XMP metadata as well as IPTC, whereas XnView seems stuck with IPTC. With digiKam I need to use exiftool from the terminal, which is not a big deal for me, but would be for a client. digiKam only copies the photographer/contact information to a template, so if you’re adding another image to a series you need to manually enter the caption and keyword information. It’s easy to make a template that copies all the metadata that you can paste into another image. No hard decisions yet so I wonder what experience others have with these. I’ve been experimenting with digiKam and XnView MP to catalogue images for clients as well as my own images. ![]()
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