Allegedly, on or about 30 January 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > is in principal a very simple requirement: the files were scanned in > a certain order, but I want to reorder them in the sequence the shots > were actually taken. This has to be manual because the files have no > EXIF information. Find an EXIF editor, insert some basic meta data by hand? At some stage you are probably want to going to edit metadata, to add personal information (names, places, etc.) to images, rather than just a series of numbered images. I went through this pain, years ago, while taking photos at our state fair over ten years (and the last one had 650 photos). Having to name the people in photos, what the photo was about, etc. And while many will say that the best place for meta data is in an external file, I disagree. The only way metadata will stay with a picture, as it gets moved and copied about, is when it's incorporated into it. I was using Gthumb, and I dabbled with shotwell, at some stage, to do that kind of thing. But I seem to recall it stored meta data in its own system, separate from the images. I can't recall which program, but you could select a batch of images, give them all the same metadata (such as a common location). Then select individual images, customising them. I can't remember if I could select some of the prior batch and give them some extra common metadata without losing prior metadata, though. In essence, you're creating a database, and that's probably the best way to approach it. Surely there's some photography database software? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.13-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 11 05:43:34 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Using Windows software is like coating all your handtools with sewage. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
