Bulk image tagging

hankfou

I have thousands of photos that I want to upload to a gallery. The problem is that I want to add different tags for each image. image1.jpg (tags: 111,3333,44), image2.jpg (tags: 11,2,333,4444).... image5000.jpg (tags: 111,333,2222) etc etc..

I need all these images searchable by tags. How can I upload this data easily. It would not be feasible to add the tags manually.

Thanks.

denisegoldberg

If the tags are in the IPTC keywords field (in your photo file) they will be added as keywords when you upload to smug. From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93291-how-do-keywords-work-for-search-:

Before adding to SmugMug:
If you added keywords in a program like iPhoto or Photoshop before adding the photos to SmugMug, we'll do our best to find those and automatically apply them. Specifically, we look for keywords in the IPTC keywords field. Please note that keywords added on SmugMug do not get embedded in the IPTC data.

We also look at the filenames of your images. If your filename is "Alvin_Birthday3.jpg", for example, we'll add the keywords "Alvin" and "Birthday" automatically. If your filename is the common format of "IMG_1234.jpg" or "DSC_1234.jpg", etc., we'll ignore it. You can always enable or disable this feature in the Discovery tab of your Account Settings (under "Search").

--- Denise

hankfou

denisegoldberg wrote: »

If the tags are in the IPTC keywords field (in your photo file) they will be added as keywords when you upload to smug. From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93291-how-do-keywords-work-for-search-:

--- Denise

Do you know what software can be used to load the IPTC keyword data into the images in bulk?

denisegoldberg

hankfou wrote: »

Do you know what software can be used to load the IPTC keyword data into the images in bulk?

have you tried a search for

batch update iptc

?

--- Denise