IPTC usage

[Jared Breland]

I apologize if this is a rather basic question, but I'm a brand new digiKam
user and I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to make this work.

I'm basically having two issues related to IPTC data.  I want to have
certain default IPTC data applied to all images that I import into digiKam.
 I thought that the Identity and Metadata settings options would do this,
but it doesn't seem to have any effect.  I filled in all fields under
Identity, and checked all options under Metadata (with the exception of the
image ratings option, but when I create a new album and add photos none of
this information is applied.  What am I doing wrong?  Am I just
misunderstanding these options?

Second, I'd like to manually edit, modify IPTC data for certain photos.
However, I cannot find any way to do this through digiKam.  I'm assuming I'm
just overlooking something, but I've dug through everything I could think of
several times.  Can anyone please tell me how to do this?  Or is it really
not possible?

Thanks!

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Friday 17 August 2007 schrieb Jared Breland:

> I apologize if this is a rather basic question, but I'm a brand new digiKam
> user and I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to make this work.
>
> I'm basically having two issues related to IPTC data.  I want to have
> certain default IPTC data applied to all images that I import into digiKam.
>  I thought that the Identity and Metadata settings options would do this,
> but it doesn't seem to have any effect.  I filled in all fields under
> Identity, and checked all options under Metadata (with the exception of the
> image ratings option, but when I create a new album and add photos none of
> this information is applied.  What am I doing wrong?  Am I just
> misunderstanding these options?

Did you set Settings->Metadata->IPTC actions  ?
What kind of image format are you using? Could that be the shwostopper?

> Second, I'd like to manually edit, modify IPTC data for certain photos.
> However, I cannot find any way to do this through digiKam.  I'm assuming
> I'm just overlooking something, but I've dug through everything I could
> think of several times.  Can anyone please tell me how to do this?  Or is
> it really not possible?

You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
the 'Images' menu.

Gerhard

> Thanks!



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[Jared Breland]

On 08/17/07 02:25, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Did you set Settings->Metadata->IPTC actions  ?
> What kind of image format are you using? Could that be the shwostopper?

Yes.  I'm using v0.9.2, and I have all three of the options under IPTC
Actions checked.

> You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
> the 'Images' menu.

I do have kipi-plugins installed, but I don't see any plugins related to
metadata, nor do I see anything related to metadata under the Image menu.
However, it looks like I'm using an older version of kipi-plugins.  I'm
upgrading to the new version now to test it out.

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[Jared Breland]

On 08/17/07 03:18, Jared Breland wrote:

> On 08/17/07 02:25, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
>> Did you set Settings->Metadata->IPTC actions  ?
>> What kind of image format are you using? Could that be the shwostopper?
>
> Yes.  I'm using v0.9.2, and I have all three of the options under IPTC
> Actions checked.
>
>> You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
>> the 'Images' menu.
>
> I do have kipi-plugins installed, but I don't see any plugins related to
> metadata, nor do I see anything related to metadata under the Image menu.
> However, it looks like I'm using an older version of kipi-plugins.  I'm
> upgrading to the new version now to test it out.

Ok, the new version of Kipi plugins gives me a Metadata editor.  That's
exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the tip.

However, I'm still not able to apply the tags automatically at import.  As
stated above, I have all of the options under "IPTS Actions" enabled, but
nothing gets applied.  Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

I forgot to answer your question about the image format.  These are JPEG
images, taken with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS and transferred via SD card.  I
can't think of any reason why this format would not be supported.

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[Daniel Bauer-2]

On Freitag, 17. August 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
>
> You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
> the 'Images' menu.
>

Gerhard, I missed this metadata editor since a long time, and just now I found
out, that my 0.9.3svn-install obviously doesn't use the svn-downloaded
kipi-plugins but instead those that are installed by openSuse-rpms (0.9.2).

For my svn-version I use the scripts from digikam website ("Install digiKam in
your Home Directory"). kipiplugin_metadataedit.la and
kipiplugin_metadataedit.so are in my /home/daniel/digikamSVN/lib/kde3 and are
up-to-date - just that 0.9.3svn ignores them.

How can I make my svn version use the latest kipi-plugins?

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Friday 17 August 2007 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
> On Freitag, 17. August 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
> > the 'Images' menu.
>
> Gerhard, I missed this metadata editor since a long time, and just now I
> found out, that my 0.9.3svn-install obviously doesn't use the
> svn-downloaded kipi-plugins but instead those that are installed by
> openSuse-rpms (0.9.2).

When you launch digikam-0.9.3svn, does env know that the kdelib is
$HOME/digikamSVN? Otherwise it will look in the stander place and find Suse.

>
> For my svn-version I use the scripts from digikam website ("Install digiKam
> in your Home Directory"). kipiplugin_metadataedit.la and
> kipiplugin_metadataedit.so are in my /home/daniel/digikamSVN/lib/kde3 and
> are up-to-date - just that 0.9.3svn ignores them.
>
> How can I make my svn version use the latest kipi-plugins?
>
> Daniel

You can compile it quite like digikam (look at
http://www.digikam.org/?q=download/svn, but checkout
from .../home/kde/branches/extragear/kde3/libs instead of trunk). But before
compiling the kipis you need to compile libdcraw, then libkexiv2, in that
order.

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Friday 17 August 2007 schrieb Jared Breland:

> On 08/17/07 03:18, Jared Breland wrote:
> > On 08/17/07 02:25, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> >> Did you set Settings->Metadata->IPTC actions  ?
> >> What kind of image format are you using? Could that be the shwostopper?
> >
> > Yes.  I'm using v0.9.2, and I have all three of the options under IPTC
> > Actions checked.
> >
> >> You need the kipi-plugins installed, then you find the editor under
> >> the 'Images' menu.
> >
> > I do have kipi-plugins installed, but I don't see any plugins related to
> > metadata, nor do I see anything related to metadata under the Image menu.
> > However, it looks like I'm using an older version of kipi-plugins.  I'm
> > upgrading to the new version now to test it out.
>
> Ok, the new version of Kipi plugins gives me a Metadata editor.  That's
> exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the tip.

:-)

> However, I'm still not able to apply the tags automatically at import.  As
> stated above, I have all of the options under "IPTS Actions" enabled, but
> nothing gets applied.  Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

In the camera GUI you also need to set the 'On-the-fly operations', maybe
you're missing those.

> I forgot to answer your question about the image format.  These are JPEG
> images, taken with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS and transferred via SD card.  I
> can't think of any reason why this format would not be supported.

That's correct, jpeg is best supported by exiv2.

Gerhard
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[Jared Breland]

>> However, I'm still not able to apply the tags automatically at import.  As
>> stated above, I have all of the options under "IPTS Actions" enabled, but
>> nothing gets applied.  Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?
>
> In the camera GUI you also need to set the 'On-the-fly operations', maybe
> you're missing those.

Hmm...  I'm actually not doing this through the camera GUI.  gphoto2 has a
bug in it that prevents listing/transfer of more than 1024 images, and I
have about 1600 on my SD card.  So, I popped the card into a USB card reader
and used the "Add Images" button to import the photos.

Could this cause the failure to apply IPTC?  If so, why would camera
transfers vs. picture imports be treated differently in this respect?  Is
there any way that I can apply the default IPTC data to all images post import?

Thanks again for the assistance.

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