IXUS - Putting dates on photos

[Novell]

Hi all,

How do I put dates on my photos? Every time I downloaded my photos to my PC, all the photos are "clean", i.e. no dates on the photos itself, but you can view them in "properties. Subsequently, all my photos that I sent for printing doesn't have any dates on them. Help...!

Oh, I'm using IXUS II (a.k.a. SD100)....sorry if this is a stupid question.

[stopbath]

If using Canons Easy Print program you can overlay the date onto the image during printing to your printer. (It's an option when setting up for printing.)

Perhaps your local photo shop has the same sort of option.

If not, you can always edit the picture and type the date on it, or use a special program script to generate the date for you from the exif data. When editing, add the date to a COPY of the image. Never edit and save the same original photo. Each save degrads the jpeg image, and you may in the future want the photo printed without the date (or change the date format/size/location.)

[jlocatell]

Exifer its a soft that can take your exif data (i.e. date) and stamp it onto your pics. Take a look

http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/

-jl

[Novell]

@stopbath

I don't have a canon printer at home, usually I just send to my local shop for printing. Editing and putting dates on the photos manually is time consuming, especially when you have lots of them. I was hoping that canon has this features somewhere and its just (silly) me that havent found it yet. I can't believe canon didnt think about this simple yet obvious problem.


@jlocatell

Exifer looks like a very interesting software. I'm downloading it right now and gonna give it a go. Thanks!

[stopbath]

novell wrote:
@stopbath

I don't have a canon printer at home, usually I just send to my local shop for printing. Editing and putting dates on the photos manually is time consuming, especially when you have lots of them. I was hoping that canon has this features somewhere and its just (silly) me that havent found it yet. I can't believe canon didnt think about this simple yet obvious problem.

Check with your printer, can they do what the easyprint program does? Use the exif data itself instead of messing with the image?

It might be nice if the next version of exif had 'overlay date', 'overlay file name', 'overlay copyright', ... as well as 'overlay location' as part of the data structure. This way printers, print shops, and home computer screens could display the information, but the image would not need to be actually damaged in any way. That seems a more obvious solution.