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From: Tom on 25 May 2010 18:27
Hi,
I have two questions about a portability issue.
When Linux was my main OS, I used to use gwenview for organizing and
viewing my photos, and it allowed me to add comments or descriptions
to the photos. It seemed to write this information into the EXIF part
of the file (almost always JPGs in my case) or some other standard
section of the file for file comments. In photos from those days, I
can still see and access those comments on my Mac with programs like
Xee or Gimp.
I am rather irritated that this doesn't seem to be possible with
iPhoto. There is this description field which can obviously be edited
straightforwardly, but I don't see all those comments from my pre-Mac
photos anywhere, and I don't know where the information I would add to
my current photos in that description field would be stored;
apparently not in the file comment section.
In principle, I think iPhoto would be a good tool for organizing my
photos, including my old ones. However, the prospect of copying all
the comments of thousands of old photos by hand into the description
field in iPhoto when importing them is a total showstopper. My
questions are therefore,
- How does this comment/description thing work in iPhoto; and
- Is there a way to import my old file comments into the description
field automatically?
Thanks,
Tom
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