Timestamping?

marlinspike

Anybody know a way to put a timestamp on a photo that looks like the time stamps on photos from back in the days of film?

David_S85

On what camera? That's usually a menu item on most consumer digicams.

Or are you talking about doing it in post?

marlinspike

It's a 20D...so I'm talking about doing it in post. I have an idea for a little photo story, and so I want to put a time stamp on each photo.

David_S85

Add a vector layer and place some text, then flatten. That should work with a digital looking font. This was done with the Windows Dakota font, though there must be something better than this.

marlinspike

Yeah, I was just hoping someone knew a batch way that would automatically pull the info from the exif since I'll have quite a few photos.

01af

marlinspike wrote:

I was just hoping someone knew a batch way that would automatically pull the info from the EXIF since I'll have quite a few photos.

This is fairly easy to accomplish with a Photoshop script (I guess it's not possible to do with an Action). Scripts can access the EXIF metadata contents. Most likely such a script already exists somewhere for download ... I'd search Adobe's Support pages at <www.adobe.com>.

-- Olaf

David_S85

I found this today
On the camerahacker site. A tool to read EXIF and imprints the date from that EXIF. I have not tried it myself. You might want to use this first on a copy or a messed up pic, just in case.