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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Detailed info - allow customization/selection of EXIF and IPTC data...?
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on: May 07, 2012, 02:55:38 AM
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OK....closer, but still some problems.....not really problem...."artistic" layout wants... :0
By carefully selecting the template size as width of paper print area and height as paper print area less area needed for floating text, I can get it. In page editor, I modify the Print location so all the spacing is on the bottom. This allow me to place the printing at bottom, but use the maximum remaining space for image.
(BTW...cannot use text annotation as tokens are not provided. Also, I have two types of info I want to show....IPTC data, including the title, and EXIF data. Since I want these to be different fonts and font size, I need to create two different Floating text definitions.).
"Problem" comes if cropping is required. As soon as crop button is changed, two things happen. First the image is pushed to the left and the positioning changes to freehand. The image (template) can either be move (freehand) to the middle of the page (or centered can be selected). However, the text seems to be ancored to the template and it moves....and usually the end of the text (right side) runs off the page.
Not sure how to fix this. I can leave the image scrunched to the left with all the white space on the right, but it is not pretty.
Any ideas?
John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Detailed info - allow customization/selection of EXIF and IPTC data...?
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on: May 06, 2012, 03:29:09 PM
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Terry.... I am going to need to play with it this afternoon and get back to you. I suspect the problem is that I start with the template cropped and freehand, then switch to centered when uncropping. The reason I set it up freehand was to optimize the room for he image, leaving room for the text on just the lower edge. If I center the image, I get white space for the text on the lower edge, but the same amount of white space on the top. I guess what I need is a "centered button" which includes the image and the annottated text....sorta like the detailed info....which (going circular on this) is why, I guess, I asked for customizable detailed info which rotated with the image positioning....
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Detailed info - allow customization/selection of EXIF and IPTC data...?
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on: May 05, 2012, 09:25:42 PM
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Thanks, Terry....it was actually the owing which I was trying to avoid. Makes what should be a PhD (push here dummy) task into one open for error....particularly for the forgetful. I have a landscape layout that I like. I just created a portrait one. I guess I can, essentially, live with these. However....and I am probably being a bit anal here...I have a bit of a problem with the image positioning...not sure it is Q or something I am missing....?? In building he layout/template, I selected a print image size, slightly smaller than the page, so I leave room for the printing I want below the image....then position the image and have the floating/annotated text below it. Ths works fine for a cropped image. If you need to uncrop, the image is positioned, in the template space, to the top and right...which is unsightly. Any of the centered page positioning options pushes the text off of the page. Is this "as designed" or am I doing something wrong? John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Detailed info - allow customization/selection of EXIF and IPTC data...?
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on: May 05, 2012, 12:32:18 PM
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Silly me....I have to apologize for making a request before properly testing. This AM, I was playing and realized....I.e. re-remembered...that Detail Info is at the bottom of the page, not the image, orientation.
So...Mike, Fred, anyone....I need some help....
Is the a way, no matter the page orientation, with rotation allowed, to always have descriptive EXIF and IPTC info below the rotated image?
I do not mind building templates, but the ones I built do not provide this function.
I use this primarily for batch printing of sets of images for archiving or sharing with friends after a shoot. Having to arrange shoots by orientation is tedious and prone to error.
Thanks for your help
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Detailed info - allow customization/selection of EXIF and IPTC data...?
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on: May 05, 2012, 12:18:44 AM
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Mike...
I have a request which I would really appreciate if you could implement.
In the same way that, in preferences, we can select type font and size, it would be great if we could select a default set of EXIF and IPTC data, and their order, to include in the detailed info "stamp".
This would be similar to what is available via tokens in annotated text. However, it would be a customizable standard set and would automatically print below each image in the proper orientation.
I know that much of this function is, as I said, in annotated text, but it needs to be "hand tuned" for each different size image, placement, and orientation.
Thanks for your consideration....John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 28, 2011, 01:42:31 PM
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I repeated your test with a 5D CR2 and what I found is that it worked perfectly unless "byte order" on the TIFF save options was set to "Macintosh". As soon as you set the byte order to "IBM PC" it works fine. Can you confirm that's the case on your system as well? Not sure why Adobe would set "Macintosh" as the default when they know their software is installed on a Windows system, but it does seem to have the wrong default. I may have to disable IPTC if Mac byte order is selected if I can't find an update to the third party IPTC tool I'm using that will allow Mac TIFF's.
Mike
I can confirm that MAC byte order was checked....and seems to be the default. I will test PC later today. In the post Fred sent me to http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=15867 Our "favorite friend", Schewe, states that byte order should not matter (Reply #11) Good thing he has never been wrong :-) John EDIT...as you know, PS allows the option to select 'PC'. It does not appear that LR provides any choice.
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 27, 2011, 10:44:13 PM
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Mike, I fully understand...and agree....that you should not fix someones already corrupt file.
To make things easier to understand, I did the following test....
Rather than use LR, I used PS CS5. I took a CR2 file and moved it into it's own directory....with no existing XMP file. I then opened in PS, which first, of course, opened ACR. No changes were made, I opened the file in PS. No changes were made and the file was 'Saved as' a 16bit TIFF, ProPhoto color space. I also did this a second time and changed the color space to DDIRGB and mode to 8bit.
In QU, I modified each of these files, adding 'Test' to the 'Caption'. In both cases, the EXIF data totally disappeared....actually on further inspection, the files were totally unreadable by QU or LR
Below is one of the file's EXIF data before the QU IPTC change...
Filename - 2008-09-30_09-34-39.tif ImageWidth - 4368 ImageLength - 2912 BitsPerSample - 8 8 8 Compression - 8 (Unknown) PhotometricInterpretation - 2 Make - Canon Model - Canon EOS 5D StripOffset - 340 Orientation - Top left SamplesPerPixel - 3 RowsPerStrip - 80 StripByteCount - 488 XResolution - 240.00 YResolution - 240.00 PlanarConfiguration - 1 ResolutionUnit - Inch Software - Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows DateTime - 2011:07:27 18:30:17 IPTC/NAA - 22806 ExifOffset - 16813272 InterColorProfile - 30588 ExposureTime - 1/320 seconds FNumber - 7.10 ExposureProgram - Normal program ISOSpeedRatings - 400 ExifVersion - 0221 DateTimeOriginal - 2008:09:30 09:34:39 DateTimeDigitized - 2008:09:30 09:34:39 ShutterSpeedValue - 1/320 seconds ApertureValue - F 7.10 ExposureBiasValue - 0 MaxApertureValue - F 4.00 MeteringMode - Multi-segment Flash - Flash not fired, compulsory flash mode FocalLength - 105 mm ColorSpace - Unknown (0xFFFFFFFF) ExifImageWidth - 4368 ExifImageHeight - 2912 FocalPlaneXResolution - 3086.93 FocalPlaneYResolution - 3091.30 FocalPlaneResolutionUnit - Inch CustomRendered - Normal process ExposureMode - Auto White Balance - Auto SceneCaptureType - Standard
It would not be the first time that Adobe had an "aw shucks", but...seems to be curious as QU can see all the EXIF data properly in the original files.
John
EDIT: BTW....the funny character before the copyright symbol seems to be a function of how the symbol is displayed in Irfanview (and in PhotoMe). I changed the import prest to have my name without the symbol and no funny character.
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 27, 2011, 07:54:04 PM
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I know TIFFs can be difficult. If I remember correctly, back when, 'Q' didn't even provide EXIF data when creating them. (or maybe it was when creating jpegs from TIFFs ) The important point is that data integrity should be maintained. 'Q' can read the EXIFdata. If it can only properly write to 'Q' created TIFFs....or, better said, I guess, can only be assured of properly writting to....then there should be a warning....or a test...to avoid doing this. For me, until I here otherwise, I will do all of my TIFF modifications in LR or PS. John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 27, 2011, 02:00:52 PM
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.and, for some reason, has a problem with LR created TIFFs. Q does not have any problem reading the data from the LR created TIFFs.
I am not sure we can make any statement further than that. Interesting. I was looking fir info on a lens, when I came across this. Read a few of the Me Toos further down the page. This might be helpful. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=15867Fred Thanks, Fred. However, this post was 2007 and also seems to indicate that the output is consistent with the TIFF specs. I don't know enough about this to understand what the cause is. I would really appreciate if Mike could look at this. If it is Adobe, I am willing to contact Adobe and/or post on their forums requesting a fix. If it is to "spec", it would be great if 'Q' altered to handle it. John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 24, 2011, 05:50:20 PM
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Q created TIF (8-bit) is not corrupted with IPTC change.
LR created TIF (both 8 and 16 bit) are corrupted.
I guess that points the fickle finger of fate for you. Fred I'm not sure it does. All it says is that Qimage can modify TIFFs that it creates.....and, for some reason, has a problem with LR created TIFFs. Q does not have any problem reading the data from the LR created TIFFs. I am not sure we can make any statement further than that. John
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Editing IPTC data changes EXIF data
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on: July 24, 2011, 04:22:22 PM
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Q created TIF (8-bit) is not corrupted with IPTC change.
LR created TIF (both 8 and 16 bit) are corrupted.
These were both created directly from RAW, not intermediate steps. I am not sure if any compression was done on the LR files, but the LR 8 bit files were the same size as the Q files.
All this is interesting as TIF is supposed to be a documented "industry standard".
John
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