Keywords based on EXIF daa

papipoisson

I posted something in onother thread, but I guess this is the right place:

I'd like to use somme of the exif data as keywords.

For example, exif has "country", "city"... etc data that could be very usefull to sort picts with..
As I use LR for my picctures, I don't want to have theese informations in two fields, it would redendant!

Any advice?

Jerome

ablichter

papipoisson wrote: »

I posted something in onother thread, but I guess this is the right place:

I'd like to use somme of the exif data as keywords.

For example, exif has "country", "city"... etc data that could be very usefull to sort picts with..
As I use LR for my picctures, I don't want to have theese informations in two fields, it would redendant!

Any advice?

Jerome

I strongly believe that those are not EXIF data, but XMP or IPTC, especially when it comes to location data other than EXIF GPS coordinates. Where are the "country" and "city" you "see" are coming from?

There are DAMs or scripts out there which writes those IPTC location data to images IPTC / XMP "keyword" field, which SM is able to extract.

papipoisson

You are perfectly right, thoose are IPTC, not exif tags, sorry I missed that.

I'll check what can be donne in LR or in SM for the best use of them!

ablichter

papipoisson wrote: »

You are perfectly right, thoose are IPTC, not exif tags, sorry I missed that.

I'll check what can be donne in LR or in SM for the best use of them!

I am pretty sure, that LR can't write them to the keyword field natively.
If you are used to scripting, respectively starting tools from command lines with parameters, you can use EXIFtool to write them batched from IPTC location to IPTC keywords for thousands of images in a row.

papipoisson

I use JF plugin to publish my picts from LR to SM.
Just checked this this morning:
I found there is a possibility to add spécial keywords on each publish service set up.
We can chose a token based on many fields like IPTC (what I did not see or understood before).

I tried it with 25 pictures, asking to put {City} and {Country} as special keywords, and it seems that works: I have now thoose keywords at the bottom of the screen in galery view. As keyword list is not updated at once, I'll check the keyword page later (not updated yet).

So:
1. I should have checked that before posting this thread!
2. I'll try that functionality a little more when the keyword indexing thing will go a little faster.
3. I'll let you know if it works fine for other tokens.

Hope that helps!

mbonocore

Moved over to the Support thread.