[Digikam-users] Question about EXIF/IPTC, tags, comments, etc.

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:27:15PM +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>      It raises a couple of questions though:-
>          Can I select a number of pictures in an album and add EXIF tags
>          for  all  of them in one go?  E.g. can I add the Camera type to
>      many
>          images at one time?
> 
>    no.
>    In  my  first  developement  version of this plugin, i have started to
>    study  this  way,  but stopped it to implement a tool to edit pictures
>    one by one.
>    There is a report in bugzilla to implement something in this way. it's
>    in my TODO list.
> 
It would seem a very useful thing to be able to do.

> 
>          Is  there  a  way  to  'export' Digikam comments to metadata in
>      bulk,
>          i.e. for a whole album?
> 
>    yes.   For comments you can do it to select all picture from an album,
>    open  caption  & tags tab on the right side bar and to change what you
>    want here (caption, date, rating and tags). all metadata from selected
>    pictures will be modified.
>    Gilles
> 
Yes, I'd already discovered that but it isn't quite what I meant.

What I was asking is if I have an album of pictures with digikam
comments is there a way to copy all the digikam comments to the image
file metadata?


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Chris Green