RE: Scripting Photoshop.. and IPTC text (file info in JPG picture s)
RE: Scripting Photoshop.. and IPTC text (file info in JPG picture s)
- Subject: RE: Scripting Photoshop.. and IPTC text (file info in JPG picture s)
- From: Hellum Timothy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:21:40 -0500
Oh yeah. I forgot to mention earlier that we use Photo Mechanic as well -
great (!) for batch captioning. I just wish the preview created in PM was
thereafter available to PhotoShop. Oh well, can't have everything.
On the Photojournalism front, have a look at www.robgalbraith.com for all
sorts of digital journalist info. It is a fantastic resource, and Rob's a
great guy (from Calgary!).
Cheers,
Timothy
Photodesk
The Globe and Mail
(416) 585-5375
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Have you tried Photo Mechanic? It's not scriptable, but you can batch
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process the IPTC fields. Both Mac and Windows.
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Also how about setting up an Action in Photoshop and either batch
processing
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or using a script (do script)?
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I don't about the licensing issue, but Photoscripter goes right through
this
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stuff easily...
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From: Mohamed Shams
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Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:38 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Scripting PhotoShop.. and IPTC text (file info in JPG
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pictures)
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Hello Everybody..
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I have some questions and some information to share with you..
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Info and context of my question...
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I work for a photo agency in NY... our standard picture format is JPG... I
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use
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some applescript to automate things like mail and file transfers... some
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resizing....... etc... The biggest need is in photo
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editing/manipulation
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as you might figure out... We have Cumulus based archive... and we fill
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in
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every darn field in IPTC headers on pix... (for people not familiar with
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the
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term.. it is like the fields you have access to in photoshop file info...
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actually Adobe implements a subset of the IPTC standard)..
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- The most fully scriptable image editor I've seen so far is Corel
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Photo-Paint... (problem... you can do everything to an image but you loose
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text headers... it doesn't even deal with it)
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- Graphics Converter ... some scripting and full manipulation of IPTC
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text
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but the headers are readable on macs only.. and if your audience includes
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PC
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users they won't see the header text...
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- PhotoShop... I can't get the point... why the hell is not scriptable
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till now... what are they thinking? and when is it going to be?
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- PhotoScripter... Heard about it and read the reviews... but I'm
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hesitant
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to buy it for the hefty cost of license on an establishment like ours
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before I
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test it and make sure it works... (they have a licensing plan that grows
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exponentially with your usage of the software... rediculous)... and they
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don't
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have demos....!!! Does anybody know of a downloadable demo of
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PhotoScripter????
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I would like to have access to Scriptability for image
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manipulation/resampling/basic editing and file headers... Does anyone
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have
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any advise on this....
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Please feel free to contact me directly for any feedback or questions..
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cheers..
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Mohamed Shams
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email@hidden
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BigPicturesUSA.com