[Shotwell] Regenerate thumbnails?

[Andy Stevens]

Out of interest, is there a standard/recommended field to use for the person
who took the photo? There's a couple I've seen various places (artist,
creator) that might fit the bill, but not sure which to use...

Andy.
 On 27 Aug 2011 15:15, "pt" <pt at traversin.org> wrote:
> On 27 August 2011 16:06, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:16:23PM +0200, pt wrote:
>>> On 26 August 2011 18:55, Andy Stevens <insomniacpenguin at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Also, is there any way to edit the pictures' extended metadata, not
just
>>> > the basic title/tags/rotation/timestamp?
>>>
>>> As far as I know, Shotwell just does the 'title' tag (and F-spot just
>>> the 'description').
>>>
>>> Usually I use geeqie (sudo apt-get install geeqie) for all the
>>> tagging, because it supports reading and writing of many more tags
>>> (AFAIK most of the XMP stuff, including copyright, location and so
>>> on).
>>
>> Hmhhh... does shotwell make the tags part of the image (EXIF-headers /
jpg-comments)?
>> I thought the tags are hold in the database...
>> So I wonder why you would use exiftool to add tags to be used in
shotwell...
>
> Because he was asking how to fill-in the many metadata fields that
> Shotwell doesn't handle (apart from 'keyword' and 'title').
>
> Plus those extra tags are not to be 'used in Shotwell', but they will
> be part of the image metadata, to be used -- for example -- with other
> software or in web pages.
>
> Ciao ciao,
> Piergi
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