gdb Posted August 4, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 4, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Lightroom ?, iView Media Pro 3 ?, ACDSee 8.1 ?,iMatch ?, Portfolio 8 ?, Photoshop Elements 4 ? HELP !!! May be this topic has already been discussed here before, but I have found no solution. The problem is: which software best helps you catalog SCANNED pictures according not to the date of SCANNING, but to the date the picture was SHOT (which of course you must provide and enter) ?. I decided to digitize all the slides I took in my life (at least the ones I prefer). So, for the last two years, since the availability of the Nikon Coolscan ED V and its very useful slide auto-feeder, my computer works 24h on week-ends to accomplish this task. Slides are scanned as NEF or TIF (never JPEG), corrected in PS CS2 (or CS last year) and saved as PSD on two external high capacity drives and many DVDs. No problem until now. Things start to worsen when I want to organize those pictures chronologically. (I am still talking about scanned pictures, not digital ones). The easiest and more flexible software to change the date of the picture seems to be the organizer part in Photoshop Elements 4. BUT… it takes much time, even with 2Gb RAM and double processor, and the program does not seem to be comfortable when you handle 25 000 + pictures. It freezes very often and you have to re-start at almost every change. ACDSee allows you to do this job, but it does not read DNG files. So you cannot mix your pictures and make one catalog for all your files. iView Media, iMatch and Protfolio 8 allow to edit the EXIF or IPTC data, but only for originally digital pictures, not for scanned ones. As for Lightroom, I did not find the way to access metadata. Have someone found a solution to this? Thanks for your help Gérard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cbretteville Posted August 4, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 4, 2006 Gérard, This is something I've been looking for my self. I haven't found something I like, so now I'm at a point where I'm considdering to start writing code that will allow me to add the meta data I need to my scans; date, time, lens, camera, film, f-stop etc. I keep shooting logs (manual exif) so there will be a data entry job, but I don't have your volume of scans to handle..... This is unless someone comes up with a product that already does this in a sensible fashion and dosen't force me to take out a second mortgage on the house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted August 4, 2006 Share #3 Posted August 4, 2006 Gerard, I use iView Media Pro and I'll have a play this evening. One thing iView allows is the very easy update of lots of images with the same information. I've never tried changing the Exif data for scanned images though. I'll let you know how I get on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_clarke Posted August 4, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 4, 2006 Steve - Iv'e just this week been pointed towards Picasa2, a free download from Google. It collects and sorts pictures from all the stored files, but I haven't had a chance to explore it yet. Anyone else got to grips with it? Cheers, Graeme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted August 4, 2006 Share #5 Posted August 4, 2006 Graeme, Picasa was too much like Photoshop Album for me. I didn't like either of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted August 4, 2006 Share #6 Posted August 4, 2006 A lot of the 'low end' catalogue programs grind to a halt with large collections of images. I have 40,000 or so in my iView catalogue and it's still fast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted August 4, 2006 Share #7 Posted August 4, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) iView pro's doc states that the only part of the exif block you can change is the capture date, so it may work for Gérard - as long as the block is there already. Wouldn't help me as I plan to add more info to my files. TIFF and EXIF are open standards and well documented. The exif block is just a linked tagged text block - similar to an xml file - and should not be a problem to manipulate programattically. Keeping the TIFFs intact is the challenge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdb Posted August 4, 2006 Author Share #8 Posted August 4, 2006 "iView pro's doc states that the only part of the exif block you can change is the capture date, so it may work for Gérard " Sorry, but you can edit the date/time stamp ONLY for originally digital pictures: not for scanned analog pictures.... Gérard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted August 4, 2006 Share #9 Posted August 4, 2006 "iView pro's doc states that the only part of the exif block you can change is the capture date, so it may work for Gérard " Sorry, but you can edit the date/time stamp ONLY for originally digital pictures: not for scanned analog pictures.... Gérard I'm sorry too. It seems that most programs stay away from adding EXIF blocks to a file for some reason unbeknownst to me. My initial ambition is to be able to add data to a TIFF file as that is what I use for the most part. PSDs are enhanced tiffs so as long as the data is added prior to my editing the scans in PS the exif data should follow along. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted August 4, 2006 Share #10 Posted August 4, 2006 I've had a play with my copy of iView media pro and you can change the 'Date Created' in the annotations block along with lots of other fields for scanned images - see screenshot. Don't know if this helps. [ATTACH]4396[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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