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What if you took the name of the category say "portugal" and added it as an IPTC tag to all the photos in that category would that not do the same thing?

+1 for this. Very handy to have.

I don't but I did a quick Google and I think this is it...

Tag - Name - Description
80 - ByLine - Byline. Photographer, for example "Your Name". 32 Bytes

From here: http://www.vcode.no/resource.nsf/ii2lnug/643.htm

Any help?

Is it possible to add the author name in XnView to the IPTC? If so, how do I go about it? Cheers.

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jaqian wrote: Thanks Pierre. Will this be resolved in 1.96?

yes

Yipee

It would be a really handy feature to have if it could be implemented. I agree that if possible the information should be written to IPTC.

Just wondering, with everything that is written to IPTC these days will we ever run out of run to add info? Think keywords, geotagging etc.

Does Pierre do all ...

I tried this last night and it wouldn't work when I selected 15 images but would when I selected only 6 or so, I was hoping to select 100s :)


I tested to tag 24 images, works fine here. Can someone else please verify this?

BTW only JPG and TIF can make use of IPTC.
Yes, a current bug in 1.95 ...

Can I tag multiple photos using Ctrl+I?
Sure, select multiple photos and use Ctrl+I.


I tried this last night and it wouldn't work when I selected 15 images but would when I selected only 6 or so, I was hoping to select 100s :)

Seems you've got a lot of work to do, good luck!
Thanks Troken ...

Thanks Troken.

No its definetely tags that I'm interested in and writing to IPTC, that way no matter what program I use down the road I will always be able to search by tag. I've many photos already tagged with Picasa but I'm not too fond of it, XnView looks really good and is constantly being ...

Am I right in thinking then that there is no tagging only categories? Will the categories be saved to IPTC data?

You can tag with keywords in the IPTC data dialog box: Ctrl+I

You can search the IPTC data for those keywords: Ctrl+F

Thanks RickS, thats what I wanted to know, would have helped if ...

Am I right in thinking then that there is no tagging only categories? Will the categories be saved to IPTC data?

you would like to set categories for your files?

No I wan't to apply tags, then later categorise them. For instance I would have a category "Family" and under that I would like to tag photos of my children as "Niamh" and "Daragh" etc.

I can see how to add or change categories but I don't see ...

It would be great if we could convert RAW files to DNG

Can anyone tell me how to tag photos in XnView? I presume it exists as I can see categories and that wouldn't be any good without tagging.

Also can anyone tell me how I can batch rename photos based on shoot date?

Thanks in advance,
Rob

I've been using MD to sort my photos by downloading them to my media card and using MD to rename and file (can't figure out the batch rename).

When importing it doesn't "see" all photos for some reason. I now know that they have to be in DCIM and it doesn't like more than one folder deep but still ...