Knowledge is the root of happiness and contentment! Congrats.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] File Mechanics
> Okay, just learned a new trick that beats shouting at idiots on the TV.
> You can put your file info into a template and automatically load it into
> each image. I filled out one form with everything but the description and
> key words, then hit the export button, made up a name for the template,
> and when it came time for the next shot, I called up the info dialogue
> box, hit import, selected my file, and voila! the data was automatically
> inserted into place. All I had to put in was the title, description and
> keywords.
>
> Life is good.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Grump! Just a note to complain to anyone who will listen that I've been
>> spending the past couple of days doing things I should have been doing
>> all along but didn't because I was too lazy and now I'm mired in
>> mind-numbing repetitious work that's driving me into a state of
>> unconscious funk. Sigh. And all of this with a hurricane bearing down.
>> Oh, well. Once more into the breach . . .
>>
>> Anyway, in preparation for building a new website, I'm optimizing photos
>> for the web instead of letting Photoshop do it for me. In the past I've
>> always put a disclaimer on my site that my stuff is for printing, and it
>> may look a little off on the web, etc. Then I used Save For Web in
>> Photoshop. This time, however, I decided to do it right, including
>> watermarking images, which I've accomplished by using Digimarc, which is
>> a Photoshop plugin that embeds a digital watermark in your image. I got
>> the premium plan so when I get these images on the web, I can use
>> Digimarc to track any unauthorized use. Pretty spiffy.
>>
>> But that means starting over with each image, and this time I'm embedding
>> file info (FILE>File Info) into each image before prepping it, and that
>> is _tedious_ to an extreme. But it's the kind of thing I should have been
>> doing all along, as each image was escorted out of camera raw into PSD or
>> TIFF. Sigh.
>>
>> I don't want to do it! I'm tired of doing it! It's making my brain hurt!
>> (Sound of childish stomping of feet), but I'm doing it anyway.
>>
>> Learn from my laziness. Embed file into from the git-go. You'll be a
>> happier person.
>
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