Bug 173120

Summary:	Copy and paste metadata between images
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	gerlos <gerlosgm>
Component:	Usability-Clipboard	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, kdebugs, kumarutkarsh946, languitar, ploujj, timetre, urindar.logins
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.9.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description gerlos 2008-10-19 00:33:12 UTC

Version:           0.9.3 (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

It would be really useful if we could copy and paste exif and iptc metadata from an image to another. 
It could be made using 2 buttons somewhere in the interface, or adding these commands to the right click menu.

It wuold bo even better if you could select which tags you want to copy, for example suppose I have a manual lens and I want to copy only lens focal lenght from an old image to one or more new images. Or to copy tags (iptc keywords).

Comment 1 Johannes Wienke 2009-10-16 13:49:46 UTC

This is already somewhat possible using Image -> Metadata -> Import (EXIF / IPTC etc.). Is this a solution for your wish?

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2009-10-16 15:06:22 UTC

Johannes,

I think that copy and paste is more suitable than to use plugin menu option. It's too long.

Performing metadata import from a file to another one is easy todo with DMetadata. Also, as icon view is now ported to Qt4, it's right time to add this feature in GUI.

IPTC and XMP is not a problem with al image format supported by Exiv2 in background.

You must to take a care with Exif, which can break image structure with TIFF file format based, as DNG, NEF, and other RAW image.

So, take a care about metadata settings from config panel.

Gilles

Comment 3 Manel Urindar 2009-10-27 01:13:07 UTC

Hi, 

I think this type of wish is very important. One of the major issues of digikam is, in my oppinion, workflow "flow" problems. It is very impractical to not be able to handle metadata properly. The current tree view of tags is, frankly, unusable once you have a few hundred different tags in your library! 

Not being able to copy and paste metadata / tags between files in a simple and easy manner is counter productive to a correct photography workflow and should be addressed.

Comment 4 Vincent Tassy 2010-01-04 16:13:06 UTC

*** Bug 221250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Kenneth Ingham 2013-10-16 20:07:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is already somewhat possible using Image -> Metadata -> Import (EXIF /
> IPTC etc.). Is this a solution for your wish?

Not for me.  I need the control-c control-v type access to copying all the metadata.  It's a time-consuming pain having to leave Digikam and use a separate command-line tool to copy the metadata from one file to another and then do a "read metadata from file to database".  And, the command-line approach does not work for some file types such as Canon raw (.cr2).

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2014-08-30 08:18:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155384 ***