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

[Chris G]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:34:18AM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Am Monday 14 January 2008 schrieb 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?
> 
> Yes there is, under Menu Album->Synchronize images with database, there you 
> go!
> 
Just what I wanted, thank you.

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Chris Green