Did you know? Photo Info and Adobe Bridge
Jonathan R. Walcher
Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins
I became a father on Friday of last week and have been forced to reevaluate my workflow as I have a ton of pictures that of course everyone in the family wants to see right this second. Here are two things that I discovered in the process:
Microsoft PhotoInfo
If for some silly reason your date/time gets set wrong on the camera (don't ask) Microsoft has just released a free tool that allows you to edit the exif time and much more from within the explorer window. It can be found here.
A word of caution though. I don't know if it’s a bug or not but if you do a batch date change, of the day, the time will get changed on every image to the first one of the group. I ended up opening the images as a group, and applying the date change to each image by using the small forward/back buttons on the right then hitting the apply button at the end. Anyway, this tool is now in my workflow tool box.
Adobe Bridge - The "Find" Function
I've been trying to figure out a way to better manage how I upload random images. There are times when I might have an album of say 100 images but I only want 25 of those uploaded. Marking and uploading those images in the past has meant selecting each image (ctrl+click) and then dragging the group to the smugmug uploader. This is cumbersome and prone to error. Also, being a bit obsessive, I wanted to be able to easily track which images that I've uploaded for future reference. Both of these issues are resolved with Adobe Bridge. The process works like this:
I'm a relative newbie so these were great finds to me. I hope they are helpful to you as well!
Jonathan R. Walcher
Microsoft PhotoInfo
If for some silly reason your date/time gets set wrong on the camera (don't ask) Microsoft has just released a free tool that allows you to edit the exif time and much more from within the explorer window. It can be found here.
A word of caution though. I don't know if it’s a bug or not but if you do a batch date change, of the day, the time will get changed on every image to the first one of the group. I ended up opening the images as a group, and applying the date change to each image by using the small forward/back buttons on the right then hitting the apply button at the end. Anyway, this tool is now in my workflow tool box.
Adobe Bridge - The "Find" Function
I've been trying to figure out a way to better manage how I upload random images. There are times when I might have an album of say 100 images but I only want 25 of those uploaded. Marking and uploading those images in the past has meant selecting each image (ctrl+click) and then dragging the group to the smugmug uploader. This is cumbersome and prone to error. Also, being a bit obsessive, I wanted to be able to easily track which images that I've uploaded for future reference. Both of these issues are resolved with Adobe Bridge. The process works like this:
- Open the album and mark each image with a label (star or color) that you want to upload.
- Then go Edit>Find and set the criteria to match the label that you applied (e.g. Rating is equal to *).
- Here is the great part : Bridge opens all of your labeled images in a separate window. From here, all you have to do is select all images and drag them to the Smugmug uploader. :barb
I'm a relative newbie so these were great finds to me. I hope they are helpful to you as well!
Jonathan R. Walcher
Focusing on Event, Portrait, and Humanitarian Work....
www.jonathanwphotography.com
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
www.jonathanwphotography.com
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Photo Info may uncompress compressed TIFFs
Photo Info can create unreadable files
Think I'll stick to the existing tools.