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When you add tags, make sure you do it to the file (or a sidecar). Don't store it in a proprietary library format, because failed photo software is so common no
by mceachen 7y ago
When you add tags, make sure you do it to the file (or a sidecar). Don't store it in a proprietary library format, because failed photo software is so common now as to be cliche, and you'll lose all that work.
PhotoStructure[1] works like this: it reads from the keywords and tags added to either files directly or to sidecars.
[1] https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
- patatino 7y agolooks interesting. "PhotoStructure tags all your photos and videos automatically with paths, like When/2019/January, and Camera/Apple/iPhone XS, and Where/France/Paris/Musée d'Orsay." Is this a standard way to save tags with a path? Or just the way your software does it?
- mceachen 7y agoThose hierarchical tags are actually automatically applied by PhotoStructure based on metadata your phone or camera stores. If you add keywords, like "first step" to a photo (by using the Windows file information dialog, for example), PhotoStructure would add "Keywords/first step" to that asset. Most keywords I've seen in the wild are just a word or words, much like a hashtag, separated by comma or semicolon. There are hierarchical metadata fields, but they seem to be used only by professional media services, not consumer applications.