Help adding EXIF Info to Scanned photos

papajay

I recently had my entire collection of 10,000 family photos scanned, and want to upload and organize them on SmugMug.

Example: I have a print photo taken in 1952. Is there a way to get a scanned digital file of that photo created "last month", upload it to Smugmug "today", and have it display on the timeline correctly as a 1952 photo?

How can I get these old family photos (taken and printed on film decades ago) to "properly" display on the SmugMug Timeline? Since the image was not taken with a digital camera, there's no EXIF data, so no meaningful "date taken" info. And since I used a 3rd party commercial scanning company to scan all of them, I'm not aware of any embedded "date" field that I could access to reset before uploading to Smug.


I know I can "keyword" such photos ("1952"), but that doesn't get them on the SmugMug Timeline in the right place.

sskoutas

papajay wrote:

I recently had my entire collection of 10,000 family photos scanned, and want to upload and organize them on SmugMug.

Example: I have a print photo taken in 1952. Is there a way to get a scanned digital file of that photo created "last month", upload it to Smugmug "today", and have it display on the timeline correctly as a 1952 photo?

How can I get these old family photos (taken and printed on film decades ago) to "properly" display on the SmugMug Timeline? Since the image was not taken with a digital camera, there's no EXIF data, so no meaningful "date taken" info. And since I used a 3rd party commercial scanning company to scan all of them, I'm not aware of any embedded "date" field that I could access to reset before uploading to Smug.


I know I can "keyword" such photos ("1952"), but that doesn't get them on the SmugMug Timeline in the right place.

If you use Lightroom, there is an option (I believe in the Library module) to alter the capture date. Just did it (successfully) last night.

I'm sure other software can accomplish this too, I just don't know which titles.

papajay

sskoutas wrote:

If you use Lightroom, there is an option (I believe in the Library module) to alter the capture date. Just did it (successfully) last night.

I'm sure other software can accomplish this too, I just don't know which titles.

Stephen:

I use Adobe Elements 4.0 (not very effectively, but I use it). With your suggestion, I discovered I can import all the images from the disks with the scanned files into the Organizer work space in Adobe Elements, and sure enough, the Adjust Date Taken editing capability is there.

I think I can handle it from here now.

Thanks for the help.
Papajay