nickd66 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Currently, there seems to be no support for metadata for any image type and, more worryingly, any existing metadata is stripped out of a raw file completely on export. If this is to be a serious contender to existing applications, metadata support needs to be added, imho. Jon Mac, BatteriesInc and edbolson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Craftsman Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I agree. Metadata support, and EXIF data, is essential to professional photographers. Coke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leftshark Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And we need control over it. At the very least, choices for exporting all metadata (including EXIF), no metadata, just copyright/contact info, yes/no options for export of GPS info and keywords, and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunBromborough Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 A great beta first effort. Hope the IPTC file info metadata issue can be included. It's a relatively easy programming task and this is needed by pro photographers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeFromMesa Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I suggest you add this to the feature request thread so it can be considered for addition to the product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coke Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I agree metadata is essential to those in the journalism field as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Mac Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 A super editor, enjoying finding my way round. I have to agree with the need for metadata support with perhaps some way of adding a watermark, or a quick share to Impression or similar. Keep up the good work... J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAASCH Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Just spent half an hour trying to find a free Mac app that will allow me to batch add IPTC data to my images... it would be very convenient if Affinity Photo could do this. H. Baasch • http://baasch.nl (nsfw) Leica X Vario, Leica X2, Cannon 550D, late 2015 iMac 5K (3,3 GHz Intel Core i5, 24 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395 2048 MB, 2TB Fusion drive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyotadesigner Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 The best app you can get: Exiftool Download, install and read the manual. Or start Terminal and do man exiftool to see all parameters and options. There is a forum somewhere as well. If you run DCRaw you can run exiftool as a second command and convert RAWs to TIFFs including all Exif data without having to touch a single file. Or you can run RPP (RawPhotoProcessor) which is the best RAW converter and includes Exiftool, writing all Exif data to the TIFF. BatteriesInc 1 hobbyists discuss new camera features photographers discuss new software masters discuss light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAASCH Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Or you can run RPP (RawPhotoProcessor) which is the best RAW converter and includes Exiftool, writing all Exif data to the TIFF. I agree that RPP is the best for RAW development; I use it daily. But though it reads and writes all EXIF data, it won't allow me to change or add IPTC data (specifically, copyright information), and that's what I was looking for. H. Baasch • http://baasch.nl (nsfw) Leica X Vario, Leica X2, Cannon 550D, late 2015 iMac 5K (3,3 GHz Intel Core i5, 24 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395 2048 MB, 2TB Fusion drive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyotadesigner Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 To change copyright information, etc. you should really test exiftool. With one single command you can change the copyright information of thousands of files - all you have stored in the same folder as your RAW files: exiftool -progress -tagsfromfile %d%f.[your_raw_file_extent] -copyright=[your_name etc] --Orientation -overwrite_original_in_place -q -q -ext tiff BAASCH 1 hobbyists discuss new camera features photographers discuss new software masters discuss light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAASCH Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 To change copyright information, etc. you should really test exiftool. With one single command you can change the copyright information of thousands of files - all you have stored in the same folder as your RAW files: exiftool -progress -tagsfromfile %d%f.[your_raw_file_extent] -copyright=[your_name etc] --Orientation -overwrite_original_in_place -q -q -ext tiff Thanks a lot, I will try this. H. Baasch • http://baasch.nl (nsfw) Leica X Vario, Leica X2, Cannon 550D, late 2015 iMac 5K (3,3 GHz Intel Core i5, 24 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395 2048 MB, 2TB Fusion drive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatteriesInc Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Quick heads up on handling EXIF data: ALWAYS use the copyright TAG ('-copyright "Copyright ( c) 2016 by TheMadHatter" ' for exiftool users as shown in HMandemaker's post) if you own the copyright. You can add a copyright notice in image comments, but the "Copyright" tag is there for that specific reason. Also, when manipulating EXIF content, make sure you leave that tag untouched as well as any other copyright notices, you may be otherwise be committing a criminal offence (see US copyright law, chapter 506 "Criminal offences", item (d)). Don't go panicking immediately, though - it requires a clear indication of criminal intent, and as an apparent Facebook coding error does this at a rate of 400M images per day* I reckon you have some margin ;) . (*) Not that all images coming into Facebook have explicit copyright information, but my tests have shown that whatever there is definitely gets stripped before publication. You can easily test that yourself - add copyright data to images using exiftool as described above, then pull them down from another account and use exiftool to read what's left (format is simply "exiftool image.png" - no further parameters). Regards, Binc Warning: dark, twisted sense of humour. Do not feed after midnight. Wheat and BS intolerant. Only use genuine Guinness to lubricate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekl Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 The afphoto file format should also support simple meta data like creator or copyright. BatteriesInc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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