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Laura Shook

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Batch Edit Metadata Information
« on: 2015-07-10 10:25:44 »
ThumbsPlus v10 and Batch Edit Metadata

Overview:

This function allows you to edit the metadata in multiple files using a list of change items. Each change item changes a particular metadata field, with criteria based on its original contents, and updated based on fixed information or information from other file-specific information, including other metadata in the file.

Here are some examples:

· Change the Creation Date.
· Update the image's Comments only if the existing Description is blank.
· Append additional keywords to the existing list
· Update the keywords in the file metadata based on those in the database (either replace or append).
· Remove any field.
· Change the Copyright.
· Add additional information to the Description.

General procedure:

1. Select the field you want to change from the list in XMP field to modify.
2. Select the Operation you wish to perform (Set, Clear, Append, etc.)
3. Enter the New value, or use the Get value from button to load the value from other image data.
4. Click Add step to add this operation to the list.

Repeat 1-4 as desired. Then just click OK to execute the steps on all selected files.

Notes:

· You may edit an existing step; just select it and click the Edit button. This removes it from the list, so be sure to click Add step again once you've edited it.

· You can save and load sets using the appropriate buttons.

· The Append button loads a set without erasing existing steps, so you can use it to combine multiple sets.

· The order of the steps is irrelevant. While you can use the editor to update one field based on another, it only updates from the file's original metadata, not from metadata changed in earlier steps.

· You may select multiple items in the Batch List and Delete them as a group.

NOTE: METADATA PREFERENCES are included in a reply to this message!

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« Reply #1 on: 2015-07-10 10:26:42 »
METADATA PREFERENCES:

Load database annotation from:

You can choose which item(s) to load the database from, if Load DB annotation when is set to Always or New Thumbnails Only. Note that you can select multiple items: they will be concatenated together to form the annotation.

Load database annotation when:

You can choose when to create annotations from file data: Always will replace the annotation whenever a thumbnail is made or updated; Never will never automatically load annotations; and New thumbnails only will only create the annotation for new thumbnails.

Automatically populate user fields from image metadata:

With this option on, ThumbsPlus will automatically fill user fields from metadata items of the same name. Use the field names listed in the Metadata panel.

Convert enumerated (lookup) fields to text

ThumbsPlus includes a data file (XMPVALUES.DAT) which it can use to convert numeric XMP enumerations to text. This is useful for fields such as Flash, Orientation, etc. which are stored in the EXIF data as numbers, but more readable when displayed as text.

Allow creation and update of metadata in raw Digicam files:

ThumbsPlus can update metadata in most raw files, but after updating, some cameras will refuse to load the info. You can enable this option as long as you're not editing the metadata on the camera directly (through a mounted device), and as long as you don't plan to upload your modified images to the camera.

Remove XMP and Photoshop histories when converting or saving files:

The metadata for Photoshop and XMP histories can be very long, and is rarely useful, even from with Photoshop itself. When you check this option, ThumbsPlus will not load or display that history, and will not write it to output files.  This is recommended.

Copy XMP/EXIF User Comment to image comment:

For compatibility with previous versions of ThumbsPlus (7.0 and earlier), you can elect to have ThumbsPlus append the EXIF User Comment to the image comment. Note that this is not the same as the Caption.

Copy Description/Caption to image comment:

ThumbsPlus can copy the metadata caption (sometimes also called Description or Comment) to the image comment for formats that have one, such as TIFF, JPEG and PNG. Then, when you save the file, even without metadata, the image comment will have the metadata description

Convert dates to Windows format:

XMP stores dates in an ISO-compliant manner (YY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS). Select this option to convert them to Windows format. Note that this prevents sorting by dates unless your Windows date format is also YY-MM-DD!

Rotate based on EXIF orientation:

You can have ThumbsPlus automatically rotate images based on the EXIF orientation field. Note that ThumbsPlus always resets the orientation to Top-Left (the default) when saving images.

Don't rotate portrait images will be removed from the options as it was needed in the past. At this point it is just confusing and not needed in the options.

Show shutter speed as:

Select the format for shutter speed and exposure time display. If you create a user field and want to sort by it, use "Seconds" to sort properly.

Assign color profile for uncalibrated images:

If your camera stores images in a color space other than sRGB (usually Adobe RGB), select the profile to use here. Note that if an image contains a full color profile, that will override this setting.

Assign sRGB profile to sRGB images:

If you are using a color space other than sRGB as your working color space, you should probably check this box so that images will appear as taken in the camera.

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« Reply #2 on: 2015-07-18 12:24:33 »
This is great, Laura. I am now able to do something that I could never do in v7:  I need to enter my file names in metadata so I will always know the original names. My publisher requires me to change file names to a specific format for publishing: 01-001 would be the first photo in Chapter 1, etc. Got it now in v10. Thanks!