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Tagged with organisation or file-management
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Is there an EXIF standard for tagging people in photographs?
There are a number of websites that let you tag people in photos, such as Facebook and now flickr, but is there an EXIF standard for tagging who is in a photo, and where they are?
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Can exiftool move images to folders, based on a timestamp?
Can Exiftool move files that have same timestamp (up to the second) to one folder?
I was taking pictures with exposure bracketing in sets of 3, so they have same-second timestamps. I want to split my ...
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Adobe Bridge adds metadata to JPG as a sidecar XMP instead of writing it on the JPG file
Using the latest Adobe Bridge 2024 (v.14.1.0) I have encountered an annoying bug recently. When I modify the metadata (such as tags, rating etc) of some JPEG files, instead of writing the changes on ...
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Renaming pictures - Best Practices
What are the most frequent and effective Best Practices to correctly rename personal pictures, maybe grounded on official documentation?
For instance, a possible solution is to rename pictures using ...
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Implementing a mobile editing workflow
I am an amateur photographer, and I recently bought an iPad that I want to use for photo editing. Many times, a big barrier to get to organize and edit my photos is my clunky workflow. I'd like to ...
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What is a resolution unit?
Please note, I'm not asking what resolution is!
I've processed a raw image and exported from Photoshop, and I've just noticed something in the image details that I've never seen before (I don't think)...
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How can I rename files to match their EXIF "created date"?
I have around 3000 jpeg photos all with names like "DSC_0596". The metadata has the date the photo was created, which would be much more useful.
Is there a way to ...
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Does Adobe Bridge 2024 support the HEIC format?
Does Adobe Bridge 2024 support the HEIC format? I wasn't able to find that seemingly easy piece of information online. My photo collection contains HEIC images and I'd like to browse them without ...
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Standard format for "ordered list of pictures"
Sorry, if I don't get the terminology correct. Newbie question.
I'm finally getting around organizing the family pictures (a few 10s of thousands) and I'm trying to do this in the most compatible and ...
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Why is my DSLR taking duplicate pictures?
My Nikon d7000 is making an exact duplicate of each picture taken. I have 2 of every picture on my sd card. How do I stop this?
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Nikon file formats
I've been working with NX2 for a long time, and now I downloaded NX Studio. To my supprice the programme only accepts NCP, NP2 and NP3 file input. There is no way I can get the programme accepting my ...
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What's the best way to share photos with a client?
I found some answers here, but they seem a bit dated (thus I'd argue this isn't a duplicate). Currently, I create a private gallery on my website where I post the finished images, but the website ...
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Can I use a CFast 1 card reader to read a CFast 2.0 memory card?
CFast 1 uses the SATA II interface while CFast 2.0 uses the new(er) SATA III interface. SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II but does that mean I can use a CFast 1 card reader to read a CFast ...
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is there photo management software that includes tagging and fuzzy dates?
I've been scanning family photographs and am looking for a way to organize them. I'd like to set them up in photo organization software where i can set tags and add dates.
Preferably, I'd like the ...
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How do I automatically relocate 10k Lightroom photos that only exist in "ghost folders?"
I have a large Lightroom catalog containing ~20k culled and edited photos. Each set of related photos (usually around 50-200 photos) exists in a parent folder, which I'll call the "event folder.&...
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Tool for finding original RAW files to already organized jpeg files
Problem description
Hi photography community,
as a hobby photographer I organize quite a lot of photos for my family and friends. I have a lightroom library of around 90k photos that accumulated over ...
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How do I set the preserved filename with exiftool only on the first time?
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While organizing my pictures I typically use many operations of exiftool to adjust date/time, rename the file, bulk add GPS locations, add creator names etc. In this process, each JPG image is ...
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How does digikam identify/track photos?
I want to keep my metadata in the digikam database (only), i.e. not write it to the EXIF data. However, I'm afraid that if I rename photo files or move them to a different folder, digikam won't be ...
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How to compile the dates when media files were created and modified before back-up?
How to automatically compile and index the following Windows properties for a batch of photo and video files (grouped across different folders per event) into one nice text-based document or table ...
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.dtrash folder in digiKam
I've just started using digiKam on Windows for my photo management software. In the root folder where I keep my files (Picture) is a folder, .dtrash\files, that has ...
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How to "manually" sort items in Digikam
Digikam includes the option to sort files in an album by "manual and name" or "manual and date." However, I haven't been able to find any way to "manually" reorder files. ...
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Darktable: How to edit the same image as multiple different edit versions?
In Darktable, you can only import the same image once as image.jpg for example. What if we would like to work on and make multiple edited versions of image.jpg instead, and produce multiple different ...
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How to save Darktable edits as a file?
Darktable is a non-destructive photo editor that exports to jpeg, png and .xcf (whatever that is, but seems to be the Gimp file format), but doesn't save a workfile containing all the individual ...
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Suggestions for shared cross-platform photo management?
I have a Mac, my wife has a Win7 machine. Currently I take all of our photos and put them into iPhoto. There's about 35K images in there now. The problem is that they are all accessible only from my ...
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Is there a free visual similarity image local hard drive search?
I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be Linux or Windows software; either would ...
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How can I rename a large set of photos using their modified date?
My problem is a little bit different from the other that I've seen here. The thing is that I have for example: DSCF0001, DSCF0002 and so on, as filenames with modified dates 2020/01/01 , 2020/01/02 (...
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Photo management software (feat. map, calendar, object identification, favorites, screensaver, etc.) [closed]
As much as I have searched online, I can't seem to find a proper standalone photo management software that includes the following features:
A map view, where the pictures can be located on a world ...
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Stack photos on hard drive like Lightroom Classig does [duplicate]
Lightroom has following feature for files loaded into its work environment.
Automatically stack photos by capture time
Lightroom Classic can automatically stack photos in a folder or a collection ...
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What do the buttons do in digikam's face recognition UI?
A while back, there was a question on digikam's mailing list that unfortunately never got answered. I'd like to ask that question here.
Paraphrasing, I'd like to know what happens when, after running ...
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How to back-up photos on 2 external hard drives and retain photo creation date?
As shown in the set-up diagram below, I would like to offload photos from an external hard drive A to external hard drive B so that if one fails, they're not all lost, since all moved photos aren't ...
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Copying all photos with EXIF Rating >= 4 using ExifTool
I have used EXIF's Rating interval for ranking photos in my collection.
My photo collection is organized in directories in the form ...
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Lightroom: Change location of PSD files
Is it somehow possible to move PSDs into a separate folder or to a different location besides next to the original image?
When I open an image from Lightroom into Photoshop and save that file, a .psd ...
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Is there a way to use Lightroom mobile to Sync only starred/picked photos in collections?
I was wondering if there's a way/plug-in to sync only photos in collections based on metadata such as flagging and/or ratings? For instance, if I have a collection of 500 images, but only 50 are rated ...
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What's a good Lightroom Alternative that sorts images by dimensions and aspect ratios?
I'm a freelancer that just got a job editing images for video games that will later be used to post on the Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Marketplaces.
I'm trying to maximize my efficiency, and one ...
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Is there a tool to check the file integrity of a series of images?
Sometimes when you're downloading an image and the connection breaks mid stream, you are left with a half downloaded image. If you try to view it you get the upper part of the image and the bottom ...
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When shooting RAW + JPEG , is there a way to delete the raw files without deleting the corresponding JPEG, without having to hook it up to PC/laptop?
I am using a Nikon D5600, and many times i am shooting in situations where i do not have a laptop/pc handy.
I want to be able to see in camera all the photos i have taken. This needs JPEG as, all RAW ...
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Sharing rating between Digikam and Rawtherapee
I've been using Rawtherapee for post processing for a short while, and, even though I've been able to adapt well my workflow to it, I've found that having to look through most of the photos I took ...
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Why did I lose my NEF files, and could only find small JPEGs in their place in the Recycle Bin?
All of a sudden lots of my NEF files were gone. After finding them in the recycle bin they turned out to be NEF jpg. files... Yes, both! and only 72 dpi, sometimes not more then 88 kb. I have no idea ...
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How to separate different subjects images automatically?
We take photos of fashion items (shoes, bags, clothing, accessories), hundreds per day. Each product can has a different number of images (from 3 to 10).
Right now, the image name is incremental (0001....
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Recommendations for Photo Editing/Organization Software?
I have a MacBook Pro, while my wife has a PC. We have a NAS device on our network where we store all of our pictures. This gives us the ability to both view our photos from one simple location, ...
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Family Photos System Strategies
I'm sure folks here have a good approach to photo storage/processing and backup. I'm a dad with 4 kids and lots of family photos. I had my first digital camera in 1996 and have pictures stretching ...
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Converting old photos to JPEGs in Lightroom?
This is a question about photo management in Lightroom Classic - I pretty much know what I'd like to achieve, but I'm bit uneasy to experiment, knowing how flimsy and buggy LR can be. As such, I'm ...
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Photo organisation and archiving in a household with multiple devices
I freely admit that this has probably been asked a million times, but I'm going mad so sorry I'll ask it again.
Situation
My situation is drawn in below graph: link to graphviz code
My wife and I ...
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Deleting photos in Lightroom
I have taken a few months worth of photos, imported them into Lightroom so that all the photos of a given day are in a folder, and edited a small fraction of the photos. My drive is filling up, so I ...
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How to find photos that do not have any keywords assigned to them in Adobe Bridge?
I'm trying to organize my archive using Adobe Bridge. In one step I messed and moved some untagged photos to another folder that all its photos are already tagged. These photos are parts of my ...
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Why is my lightroom volume split into two entries?
I'm using Lightroom Classic 8.4.1, but this problem also appears in version 7.
I'm on a Mac running the most-recent version of Mojave due to stability concerns with Catalina.
My photo collection ...
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Move unpicked (not in a collection) files in Lightroom to backup drive
So I can easily create a smart collection of files that I didn't put into a collection, and that collection includes 90-95% of the photos in my catalog. I was wondering if I can leverage that ...
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Is there a photo service that allows to upload preserving folder structure
This might be not strictly a photography question. But I imagine that someone had this problem before. I have quite large collection of digital photos organized in folders. Some of those are uploaded ...
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Should I add my exported photos to my Lightroom catalog?
After processing my RAW files in Lightroom, I often export JPGs to give to people or to post online. I create these files in a directory structure under an \Export top level directory. I'm trying to ...
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Metadata "keywords" or "descriptions" for non-controlled-vocabulary search terms?
I have a bunch of unorganized scanned family photos. I want to add metadata to make them more searchable.
I thought I'd mostly use the IPTC keyword field (because ...
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