Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources When pictures are downloaded from the camera, it would be nice to have an option to have the copyright/license exif tags filled automatically. This could be a check box in the advanced download dialog, with a widget to put the name and a list widget to choose between different licenses : No license, Creative Commons, etc...
In trunk branch, there are new options to set Photographer indentifications on IPTC tags from Camera gui. Take a look in setup metadata page and lets me hear is Copyright/license IPTC tags must be set at the same place on setup (to use it later in cameragui of course) Gilles Caulier
SVN commit 525972 by cgilles: digikam from trunk : Camera GUI : - new option to set Date&Time Exif Tags on the fly during download if camera don't set it when pictures are taken. - new options to set IPTC photographers identity on the fly using digiKam metadata setup. CCMAIL: digikam-devel@kde.org CCBUGS: 103255, 121306, 115764 M +4 -2 TODO M +55 -24 utilities/cameragui/cameracontroller.cpp M +7 -3 utilities/cameragui/cameracontroller.h M +78 -27 utilities/cameragui/cameraui.cpp
Current implementation allows only for one, global identity. This in not perfect solution. For example: - one person can maintain collection for several people - one person can have several legal identities (eg. as person or firm) Better solution would be to allow for giving description in Camera GUI with possibility to import global settings or even set identity per camera.
Right, but at this moment, it's more easy to easy a general photograph identity. Multi-identity can be done later, not for 0.9.0 Gilles Caulier
Great, I tested your implementation, works fine for me. I think it would be clearer to move the Author, City, Province, and Country fields in a new section of the configuration dialog called something like "Identity" ("Identities" if in the future multi identities is implemented) instead of the "Metadata" section. Could be convenient also to have a button "Setup identity" in the Camera Gui which open the configure dialog in the "identity" section. Concerning the licence tags, I think their should be a default licence associated to an identity but the choice should be made available in the Camera Gui as well.
Yes Julien, i have thinking about to add an Identity setup page to include current Photographer informations and licence/(c) informations. I missing something about ? Photographer Agency for example ? Take a look in IPTC tags list from Exiv2 project page: http://www.exiv2.org/iptc.html Actually all information are stored in digikam.rc file, nothing in database. To make a multi-photographer accounts, it's more complicated. I need to use a flexible issue for that. We need to talking about, this is why i won't to do it for 0.9.0... Just a simple photographer account will be available. It's very important to identify witch IPTC tags are important. Please give me a feedback. Gilles Caulier
I had a quick look. It seems that City Province and Country are for the content not for the author, so should be removed. For the Copyright there is this one : Iptc.Application2.Copyright but i am not a specialist sorry.
About City, Province, Country, not sure. It ambiguous. Like you can read French words, there is a GREAT web site about image metadata here: http://peccatte.karefil.com/Software/Metadata.htm#IPTC and especially the comparison between photo management softwares : http://peccatte.karefil.com/software/IPTCTableau.pdf http://peccatte.karefil.com/software/IPTCPropositionsPixpalace.pdf Gilles Caulier
SVN commit 527226 by cgilles: digikam from stable : auto IPTC tagging on the fly during download: - Remove location informations used with photographer id. This is relevant of picture content not photographer. - Add new Identity setup page with default IPTC Photographer and Credits/Copyright informations. - New method to set Credits/Copyright IPTC tags. - New option to set automaticly IPTC Credits/Copyright informations when Comment&Tags sidebar tab is used. - New option to set IPTC Credits/Copyright information on the fly during download. CCMAIL: digikam-devel@kde.org CCBUGS: 121306 M +42 -29 digikam/albumsettings.cpp M +9 -6 digikam/albumsettings.h M +40 -18 libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp M +2 -2 libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.h M +9 -4 libs/imageproperties/imagedescedittab.cpp M +1 -0 libs/widgets/metadata/iptcwidget.cpp M +15 -10 utilities/cameragui/cameracontroller.cpp M +3 -6 utilities/cameragui/cameracontroller.h M +15 -6 utilities/cameragui/cameraui.cpp M +1 -1 utilities/setup/Makefile.am M +11 -1 utilities/setup/setup.cpp M +1 -1 utilities/setup/setup.h A utilities/setup/setupidentity.cpp [License: GPL] A utilities/setup/setupidentity.h [License: GPL] M +19 -87 utilities/setup/setupmetadata.cpp
Auto set IPTC Copyright/Credits informations on the fly during download is done. I close this file. About multi-identity feature, it will be not implemented for 0.9.0. Please make a new file in B.K.O for that. Thanks in advance... Gilles Caulier