![]() Someone wrote an excellent front-end for Exiftool for Windows, but nobody seems interested in doing that for Linux. ![]() BUT, it's pretty hard to identify which photos you want to tag with "fish, aquarium, freshwater, blue" without being able to see the photos (it's a command line only tool). It's 10 years old.Įxiftool by Phil Harvey kicks tail. How long does it take for developers to start integrating modern metadata standards? It's not like XMP is bleeding edge. For Windows, there is a GUI shell (ExifToolGUI) that makes. So what I don't understand is why so many photo apps-even new ones-are limiting themselves to tagging in IPTC only (at best), and many limit themselves to only "keywords." IPTC is over 30 years old and XMP has been defined for 10 years. This is a command-line tool that can be installed on Unix, Windows, and Apple Macintosh computers. such that the IPTC (organization) is even merging the IPTC (metadata standard) into the XMP structure. It's the modern, improved method of storing metadata and has many possible tags besides just keywords. XMP is a metadata standard defined in 2001. Headline, Caption, City, State, Country) than simply "keywords" which most photo apps limit themselves to. IPTC (metatdata standard) was defined by the IPTC (organization) in 1979. Regarding metadata, let me explain a bit how so many apps fall short (I'm no expert but I've been studying the standards).ĮXIF is essentially metadata generated by the camera not meant to be edited (generally). I don't know if it does it's own thing with my photo files and directories like F-spot, but if it does, that's a mark against it in my book. Shotwell does have a decent GUI and apparently "tags" (with keywords) multiple photos. #EXIFTOOL GUI SOFTWARE#It would be a great compliment to other photo software tools.Įxiftool is simply amazing, but I can't rate photos or assign keywords and captions to photos without seeing them. That means, theres no Graphic User Interface (GUI), so all work must be. The only downside for many potential users is the fact, that ExifTool is a 'Command-Line' utility. I think it would be well-received and would not compete with Darktable, DigiKam, or RawTherapee. ExifTool GUI is a (free) Graphical User Interface for an already existing EXIF editor called ExifTool, developed by Phil Harvey, a full-featured - command-line - utility. That's it! I'll use RawTherapee or Darktable for image manipulation.ĭoes anyone have any ideas? Are there any developers out there that have thought of doing this relatively small project. Then of course I want to tag multiple photos simultaneously. I noticed there is software called ExifTool GUI but it is only for Windows! All I'm after is a GUI for Exiftool that allows me to SEE my photos in order to know how I want to tag them. Mapivi is sort of close in tagging, but its UI is very awkward. I like RawTherapee but I can't select 100 photos of my dog and tag them with "dog". It's a great app and I'm impressed, but I don't want to use it. The best I've found is DigiKam, but I don't want to put up with KDE libs (I've tried and almost gave in). I have been frustrated for a long time with the lack of proper Linux tools to tag photos. ![]()
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