XnView Software

Thanks Pierre:

That works. I was also able to add in {Lens Model}

I ended up putting each value on one line: that seemed to be more successful.

I think the difference here is that I was using EXIF codes from the internet; the ones I found didn't have any spaces. However in XNView the codes do ...

That doesn't work either: still puts the 'field codes text' in rather than the result...

I assume that I'm somehow formatting this incorrectly but I don't know how to change that.

Richard

I have a series of photos for a lens test project. I'd like to add a label onto the image with some image data.

I imagined using the Text tool for this, and adding EXIF fields. I tried adding a text field and putting in the text box this:
{Exif:ShutterSpeedValue} f.{Exif:ApertureValue} FL.{Exif ...

Excellent! Waiting for XnViewMP 1.8.4 to be made available - still version 1.8.3 for download on the website.

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I would argue that this is ±impossible. I move my mouse lightning fast and it still appears.

I am having the same problem. Click "metadata" and move the mouse and the "categories" screen - a full screen - immediately takes over my computer.... It must have to do with the 'expansion' of the item with the right arrow getting activated while just thinking about it! If I do a deliberate move of ...

I'm just learning about using GPS data (from google maps) with image files from my NZ trip.
When I select a group of files and 'paste' GPS data (apparently incomplete: google maps doesn't give altitude it seems), then a duplicate file is created which oddly doesn't have a file creation date...

I ...

Is there an configuration option for 'drag and drop' to always be 'move' and not copy?

In Win10 this appears to be the default if the move is within the same drive, but it is 'copy' if it is to a different drive. I don't know why this should be the behaviour. When I'm organizing my many new photos ...

Thanks XnTriq:

Just coming back to this question

Thanks for the clue about the Jpeg write settings! I'd not seen that. I've put the quality to 100% now (it was defaulted to 80%) so I'm happy to know about that option!

Regarding my 'adding text to images' question I had imagined just adding simple ...

BetterJPEG
“BetterJPEG is a JPEG editor specifically designed to avoid recompression loss when editing and resaving JPEG images. BetterJPEG takes advantage of the fact that JPEG images consist of a number of small independent blocks and does not recompress blocks that don't have to be changed ...

Bringing up the Text dialogue, it seems to default to MS Shell Dlg 2. This is a font I've never heard of. Is there anything important about this default?

It's a logical font used by default for dialogs and controls (user interface) in Windows.

Microsoft Learn: Using MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell ...

I have been wondering about adding text to an image (useful, perhaps, with old historical family photos to identify people).

2 questions, perhaps not of great import. However.... Insofar as I understand every time one saves a JPG image the image is 'degraded' a bit further. Is this important enough ...

With my digital camera I take both raw and jpg files.... And I process things (in my brain) slowly enough that sometimes I get "confused". Most often when I'm fiddling with files to send them to family (fiddling = crop/resize) and I'd like to do that to just the jpg.

So it would be nice to see in ...

How can I add to the custom filter list? I can't find a way of doing that anywhere. There is a list of custom filter settings in the Settings option but no apparent way of editing there.

thanks Richard

Nope, looking in the Input tab as you suggested.

But the 'presets' option is not in tabs, but part of the dialogue and visible where-ever, if this is what you are referring to in particular.