Picasa Users?

Andy

Can one edit in Picasa, add a caption, and then upload to SmugMug with exif and caption intact?

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docwalker

Andy,

It appears that you can. I have been using Picasa for a few weeks with fairly good luck. From what i can tell the exif is intact on my photos.

Doc

Andy

docwalker wrote:

Andy,

It appears that you can. I have been using Picasa for a few weeks with fairly good luck. From what i can tell the exif is intact on my photos.

Doc

Doc, what about caption info from Picasa upto SmugMug

And, are there specific steps one must take to preserve exif and captions?

Thanks

HeldDown

Picasa users:
Have you gotten Picasa to play nice with your RAW files? I loved it until I started shooting raw and it started having daily hissy fits. Suggestions?

docwalker

Andy,

I have not been playing with the captions. As for the Exif I do nothing special to retain it and it is showing in SM. So nothing special.

I will check the captions and report back.

Doc

docwalker

Andy,

I can confirm that the captions do come over. Here

At first I was worried that the exif had dropped. But, I remember now that this camera does not record exif data. The photos from my KM 5d does come over after processing through Picasa.

So, to answer your questions, yes exif is preserved and captions do come over into Smugmug.

Let me know if there is any other testing you need done.

Doc

Andy

docwalker wrote:

Andy,

I can confirm that the captions do come over. Here

At first I was worried that the exif had dropped. But, I remember now that this camera does not record exif data. The photos from my KM 5d does comeover after processing through Picasa.

So, to anser your questions, yes exif is preserved and captions do come over into Smugmug.

Let me know if there is any other testing you need done.

Doc

Doc - thank you! This question came in via SmugMug helpdesk yesterday, and I gave the emailer the link to this thread - and I'm sure that they'll be pleased with the answer!

All the best,

robscomputer

HeldDown wrote:

Picasa users:
Have you gotten Picasa to play nice with your RAW files? I loved it until I started shooting raw and it started having daily hissy fits. Suggestions?

I've been using Picasa for a year now and have not seen any problems viewing my RAW files from my Canon 10D. Could you explain the issues?

Rob

binghott

are we talking about uploading through picasa? that would be sweet!

docwalker

For now Picasa has no upload to Smugmug functionality. Who knows if that would ever happen. I use StarExplorer for the uploading.

southgagal

Picasa captions not working for me now
I am a new user to Smugmug, and, discovered that Picasa2 captions were retained when uploaded, and, was pleased, as I am working on a project where I wanted to use Picasa2 standalone in a library setting for searching photos and burning them to CD, and, use Smugmug for the same photo collection online. And, I wanted to avoid having to input the captions twice.

However, I am now unable to get the captions to be visible or available for search when uploaded to Smugmug.

I assume I changed something to cause this, but, cannot determine what that was.

www.berriencounty.smugmug.com

southgagal

Andy wrote:

Doc - thank you! This question came in via SmugMug helpdesk yesterday, and I gave the emailer the link to this thread - and I'm sure that they'll be pleased with the answer!

All the best,

docwalker

It looks like you have turned off the Caption option in your gallery customization.

southgagal

docwalker wrote:

It looks like you have turned off the Caption option in your gallery customization.

Which option are you referring to? The only one I'm familiar with is the one which says, 'use filename if no caption,' which I do have enabled as I have some photos with descriptive filenames and would like to keep enabled if possible; and, which appears to have no effect on Picasa captions being available on the uploaded smugmug photo. Any help much appreciated.

docwalker

filenames: ? Yes: No: for photos without captions, show the filename instead of nothing?
This was the option I was referring to. It may not be the right one for what you are trying to do. If changing this option does not fix it, I would take this to the SM support section.

Take a look at the help for that option. Point at the ? mark beside filenames in the customization window and it should pop up. That should explain how the captions work better than I can.