Help: Creating Captions from Filename

Packhorse-4

Hello DG Community, My viewers/customers are not as computer savvy as I would hope and they cannot always find the file name of a photo using the toolbar. I would like to create captions and/or keywords with each photo's filename. Actually I would prefer to have the Caption include the Filename because it appears in nice bold font directly under each photo.

Any ideas on how I could use the Caption and Keyword tool to automate the process?

Thanks.

rainforest1155

If you have a Power or Pro account, you can look at #43 of the customization faq on how to display a filename at all times below the main photo in your galleries.
Does that work?

I don't think there's a way to automate getting filenames added to the caption within SmugMug. What you could do is add the filename to the IPTC caption field of your photos. There are tools that allow you to bulk add information to the IPTC metadata of photos. It might be a feature in the photo editing or managing software you use.

Packhorse-4

Rainforest - Thanks for the tip. I added the CSS code as described in #43 of the customization FAQ. I already had a few lines of CSS code entered so I added the new code to the bottom. When I went back into the gallery I did not notice the change.

Any other suggestions?

Andy

Packhorse-4 wrote: »

Rainforest - Thanks for the tip. I added the CSS code as described in #43 of the customization FAQ. I already had a few lines of CSS code entered so I added the new code to the bottom. When I went back into the gallery I did not notice the change.

Any other suggestions?

Exact link to gallery in question?

Packhorse-4

Hi Andy,

Here are two links to galleries that do not show the file names under the photos. In these two galleries, I exported the photos from lightroom into a folder on my local computer and then used the SmugMug uploader to add all of the photos. They are password protected, but I'm guessing you can get around that. Let me know if you need me to send you the password in a PM.

http://johngerardphotography.smugmug.com/MKWSwimTeam/MKW-2012/MKW-Home-Meet-25-June-2012/23885138_MG6M4c
http://johngerardphotography.smugmug.com/MKWSwimTeam/MKW-2012/Home-Meet-18-June-12/23747525_VHcJPh


In the gallery listed below, I used the Jeffrey Friedl Lightroom plugin to upload the pictures and the file names were added under each photo by default. However (and there's always a "However" in life) the first three pictures in this gallery were created in photoshop and uploaded with the SmugMug uploader. So this gallery has photos with and without the file name showing under each photo.

http://johngerardphotography.smugmug.com/MKWSwimTeam/MKW-2012/MKW-Team-Pictures-2012/23573064_5vhTdK

In the future, I can sidestep this issue by uploading the photos directly from Lightroom with the JF plugin. But I would like the ability to upload large quantities of photos from these swim meets using the SmugMug uploader.

Andy

Packhorse-4 wrote: »

Hi Andy,

Here are two links to galleries that do not show the file names under the photos. In these two galleries, I exported the photos from lightroom into a folder on my local computer and then used the SmugMug uploader to add all of the photos. They are password protected, but I'm guessing you can get around that. Let me know if you need me to send you the password in a PM.

You had filenames specifically turned off in gallery settings:


If a photo has no caption entered in the metadata, we then use the filename as the caption.
I turned them on for these galleries.

Packhorse-4

Awwww, I hate it when I miss something simple - like a radio button. Thanks for the assist Andy.