Upload pictures but name them with the embeded title, not picture file name.
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wizeguuy
Joined: 2005-10-16
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Posted: Sun, 2005-10-16 18:29
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Hello, I'm a newbie. I typically leave my image names be as they come off of the camera "IMG_0015.jpg". I then add titles and info within a photo editing software. If I right click on the image on my local pc I select properties then summary, I scroll down to title and there is my description. I'd like that description to be listed under the uploaded photo rather then "IMG_0015.jpg". I'm not finding what I'm looking for and would appreciate any help you can provide. Oh I've tried but with the web upload and via xp publish but I still get the "IMG_0015.jpg". Thanks a ton, this 'guuy' appreciates. |
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If your photo editing software 'does' IPTC or EXIF you may have more success...
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No, it's probably not possible or at least not even close to easy. Those properties are stored on the file system of Windows. You need to either set the title when you upload the images, change your file name to something meaningful (this will get you higher page ranks on search engines) or change the title after you upload.
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icpix, yes, changing that properties in the EXIF/IPTC info and waiting for G2 to actually store that info in the database would be a good option. Currently that information is not stored in the database and I believe the EXIF/IPTC info is read each time the photo is accessed. Once it's stored in the DB then it shouldn't be hard for someone to extend a module or create a new one to replace titles with info from EXIF or IPTC if it exists.
BTW, wizeguy, setting that information in the EXIF or IPTC properties is a better place as it actually stays with the photo. For instance, if you're just using the file properties of Windows and you were to send me one of your images via email, post it on the internet, copy it to CD or even just copy it on your hard drive, that info no longer exists for the image.
A good, free program I've used in the past is Exifer for Windows http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/
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I'm sure the info in embedded in the photo file and not in some other database. Wether its EXIF or IPTC I don't know.
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Well, where do you change that information? Is it like that from the camera or do you add a title somewhere? If you post a link to a sample photo of yours I can tell you in a couple of seconds if that information is with the photo or not.
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Sure...
http://www.cowsertclan.com/images/IMG_0797%20(Medium).JPG
Now how do I get Gallery to use that info instead of the image name?
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Well, that info is embedded in the picture somewhere. "This is a picture of Hector"
I just don't know where. It is not in the EXIF or IPTC or JPG comments. I doubt a server side solution will be able to be made. It looks like you have to use Windows API calls to access that information. I was able to find this site talking about it a little bit. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Java/Q_20794312.html
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How would one set the title when they upload the image? I'm having trouble with this, as my users need the option and I can't find any field for editing the Title of the image within the upload/import area. Right now we have to get an admin to come along and edit the title for them, which won't be any good if we want to go live as we're part of a reasonably large site and that's a lot of work
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With which upload method? I'd have to use the XP Publish method again to see what options are there. In the "From Web Browser" method you can set the title to the Base Filename, Caption or to be Blank. That option is toward the bottom of the page. I'm not sure about the Gallery Remote, Upload Applet, From Local Server and From WebPage methods. If they have those options it will be listed on the page or in the Applet somewhere.
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Ah, I see now - the caption is also used for the title. Is there any way to have it so that people have the caption and title field seperate? It looks mighty silly having the Title and caption for everything repeated, and I understand there is no way for a user to make them different without allowing them to edit everyone else's files as well as their own. For a more detailed explanation...
At Eyes on Final Fantasy, we have galleries seperated by game, not by artist. This is due to the very large amount of artists we have. Therefore we have a potentially unlimited amount of registered users submitting art into each album. This means that should we give permissions for any one artist to edit their own files (Edit Items) they would also be allowed to edit every other artist's items in the same album under the current software system, which obviously would be a problem.
If we can have it so that instead of asking for just the filename and caption when uploading, it asks for all of filename, title, summary, keywords and description (in seperate fields). This would allow for artists to do just a few simple additional tweaks while the admins don't have to do the same for the estimated thousands of files that the many artists will upload over a length of time.
If none of you have the time to do this, could you at the very least let me know what files/templates I would need to edit in order to get this done myself (or with the help of one of our site's coders, if not me)? We use the Matrix theme.
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I agree, the upload form should have a title field and possibly a description field in addition to the caption field. Please search for a feature request and if it doesn't exist, feel free to add it: http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote/all
I don't know what files exactly you'd need to edit to add this functionality, but I do know they are located in /modules/core
I'd probably start with looking at any file that has ItemAdd in the name.
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Ref: Gallery 2.3
Did anyone ever figure out how to stop the Title from being named the file name during upload?
I did some experiments using an EXIF editor to set up a test imagedescription = some test test of description for each test JPG.
In Site Admin & opened the EXIF/IPTC settings tab. I checked the following 2 boxes:
Item Upload
When photos are added to Gallery check for EXIF Image Description and apply to:
X-Item Summary
X-Item Description
I uploaded the photos and the Summary/Description was indeed set to the imagedescription settings but I still got the file name in the Title, something I don't want.
At that point I went back to Site Admin and selected the EXIF/IPTC settings and set the following setting, knowing that I didn't have a way of writing IPTC (reading showed this area blank) so I hope that setting this would cause the Title to be set to a blank data line but alas, the Title was still the file name:
When photos are added to Gallery check for IPTC Object Name and apply to:
X-Item Title
(this setting didn't seem to matter)
In Site Admin & opened the Upload Applet tab. I set the following variables:
Next, we got to SiteAdmin and try to turn off the automatic adding of file names IMG_xxxx.jpg as the Titles:
Upload Applet Settings:
These variables provide default values for applets users execute on your site. Users will be able to override these defaults by making changes in the user interface of the applets, or by changing their local defaults file.
Variable Action
setCaptionsNone=true
setCaptionsWithFilenames=false
resizeBeforeUpload=false
The Title is still being set as the filename IMG_xxxx.jpg when using Upload Applet, regardless of any of these customizations.
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(Note - Using Upload Applet (Gallery Remote doesn't seem to work on Gallery 2.3, at least on my WinXP))