Is somebody using or know of any software that can copy-paste title, description and keywords from an image to another or even to multiple images ?

I mean without creating templates, just simply copy-paste everything ?

The only one I know of is cushystock , but i find it unstable sometimes and it tends to do copies of images and even renaming ones with capital letters.

It can be annoying especially when u deal with vectors and it renames your jpg file differently.


Thanks

 

Xnview can do this. It's a freeware I use a lot without any problems.

Great thanks , I will try it tommorow

Lightroom allows you to do this.  If you are only doing vectors, I'm sure there are cheaper ways to move the data, but its a great piece of software for photographers.

Is somebody using or know of any software that can copy-paste title, description and keywords from an image to another or even to multiple images ?

Irfanview in the Thumbs view.

I don't that with Exifer.

The last time I checked (years ago), Exifer wasn't developed any more. I used it a couple of times and once it corrupted all my images. Perhaps there is a newer version?
Irfanview is developed constantly and it never corrupted my images. The workflow is quite fast in the Thumbs view (press 'T' when you open any image).

You can CTRL- or SHIFT-click image thumbs like in the Windows Explorer in a very intuitive way to make a (multi-) selection. Then menu : File | JPG Lossless Operations | Set IPTC data to selected files (CTRL-I)
A popup-window will open with then with the tabbed IPTC info. These contain the master data. You can fill in here all possible IPTC fields. In the last tab - and this is very important - you can determine how the master data are applied to the selection : all fields are copied into the selection, only filled-in fields are copied (empty fields are not touched), or only empty fields in the selection (slave data) are filled.

The pop-up window with master data is pre-filled with the IPTC data of the first image. This can be inconvenient when the master data are in an image somewhere in the middle of the selection. In that case a make a temporary copy of the master image called "a.jpg" so it is always in front. A second drawback is that IPTC data are only copied into the JPG, not into the TIF. This can be a handicap for people that shoot only raw without a corresponding JPG.

Lightroom can do this but I don't like Lightroom for editing since it can't clone nor selectively erase - and it's not free. To pay for the possibility to put IPTC in TIFs is somewhat overkill for me. Irfanview never let me down for many years, it's constantly developed, it's free and it works fastest for me. But others might have other equally fast solutions.

A typical application is right after the shoot when I fill in date/location/model code/copyright in all the images of the folder (shoot).

Exiftool can do all kinds of IPTC manipulation.

Another option is to use Phil Harvey's ExifTool.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
It's kept up to date and reads / writes nearly everything in the Exif data.
It's command line only so you'll probably also want ExifTool GUI
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php/topic,2750.0.html?PHPSESSID=bb842b586445cc545538457517791a31
which gives a GUI for most stuff you'll need to do. The version from the address I've given is the up to date version 4.23.
 

Quote from: cardmaverick on November 13, 2011, 17:26

Microsoft Pro Photo tools is actually a really good batch metadata editor... now if only it weren't base on the .net framework and I could use it in Linux....

Maybe it does some things well, but I think it's the worst keyword editor I've ever seen.  It puts all the keywords in one horizontal line, so you have to keep scrolling side-to-side and can never see all of them at once.  And you have to add semicolons yourself.

Another Microsoft loser - couldn't uninstall it fast enough.

Yeah I know what you mean. An older earlier version actually didn't have that problem... I've been hunting for a good Linux solution. The best I've found is geeqie, but no batch editing it seems.

Microsoft Pro Photo tools is actually a really good batch metadata editor... now if only it weren't base on the .net framework and I could use it in Linux....

i like this, but something strange happened on the last update of the software - the title i put in gets extracted by some agencies - eg, Big & SS, 123, but not by others - DT, yay,

no agency has ever replied when i reported this - very strange

also if you enter a title, then enter a desc, then save, the title replaces the desc.  i ended up entering title, saving, then entering desc and saving.

i've uninstalled & re-installed latest version but still happens

Quote from: Lizard on November 12, 2011, 23:39

Is somebody using or know of any software that can copy-paste title, description and keywords from an image to another or even to multiple images ?

Irfanview in the Thumbs view.

Worth Quoting - IrfanView Free use the Thumbs section, lossless editing.

Another one that works with everything, Breeze Browser Pro, XMP and old IPTC and does batch editing.

I noticed that some agencies import different fields as title.

Yes, what a mess. Veer is terrible at it, all others in the microstock world are quite OK.

I always write the same title to 3 fields: Title, Headline writer and Object name (as called in XnView and ExifTool; names may vary slightly)

The confusion stems from the fact that that the object name really wasn't intended for holding the title in the pre-micro world (like News photos) but the Caption writer or rather headline was. Object name should hold the file name.

Here is a page where the IPTC scheme is explained with a list of both Mac- and Windows programs that treat IPTC. The list is not up to date though.

Quote from: cascoly on November 14, 2011, 19:51

i like this, but something strange happened on the last update of the software - the title i put in gets extracted by some agencies - eg, Big & SS, 123, but not by others - DT, yay,

no agency has ever replied when i reported this - very strange

I noticed that some agencies import different fields as title.
I always write the same title to 3 fields: Title, Headline writer and Object name (as called in XnView and ExifTool; names may vary slightly)

tx - i use guiexiftool now & writing to object name seems to have cleared all problems for me - i had tried headline in the MS prp photo tools but headline didnt work, nor title

For what it is worth, i use Nikon View (browser) to copy title, description and keywords between images.
No problem between jpg and tiff and vice versa.
I don't use it for keywording, just copy and pasting.

Patrick