GenEOS
16th of January 2004 (Fri), 12:02
A friend (that I sold my G1 to) asked me how to make it place the date and time on the images.
Now, before you go screaming "why the hell would you want to do that", it doesn't really matter. At the time, my friend wanted to step up to a better camera and I made him a very good deal on all my G1 gear.
His wife, who approved the purchase, likes the blazing orange date and time.
Searching for a way to automate this process, I came up empty.
This was not good, because she REALLY liked having the date and time on the photos.
Then I started messing with breeze browser and web pages. He is how I found you can do it. Put the images you want to tag from the embedded EXIF data in a directory. Breeze browse yourself to that direectory, select all the images. Then go to HTML, pick the plain black HTML page or whatever on you like (doesnt really matter). Then select the custom function that lets you set the size of the images it creates for the webpages. Set this to match the camera output at 100%.
But here is how you get the info from each images EXIF to print on the front of the picture. You select the feature that lets you put text on the image. Instead of text you can select any of the exif data. There is a list on the help pages, but date and time are @time@ and @date@.
The "@" signs tell it to go get that info from the file.
You have control over the placement, color, size, font, etc. of the text.
After you create the html pages, you can view them to check the images. Then go copy the images Breeze Browser made out of the html directory. If done right, they will be exactly the same size as the files you started with and the file sizes will be about the same.
Most of all....
My friend can start sleeping in bed with his wife again. He says the couch was getting mighty uncomfortable....
Now, before you go screaming "why the hell would you want to do that", it doesn't really matter. At the time, my friend wanted to step up to a better camera and I made him a very good deal on all my G1 gear.
His wife, who approved the purchase, likes the blazing orange date and time.
Searching for a way to automate this process, I came up empty.
This was not good, because she REALLY liked having the date and time on the photos.
Then I started messing with breeze browser and web pages. He is how I found you can do it. Put the images you want to tag from the embedded EXIF data in a directory. Breeze browse yourself to that direectory, select all the images. Then go to HTML, pick the plain black HTML page or whatever on you like (doesnt really matter). Then select the custom function that lets you set the size of the images it creates for the webpages. Set this to match the camera output at 100%.
But here is how you get the info from each images EXIF to print on the front of the picture. You select the feature that lets you put text on the image. Instead of text you can select any of the exif data. There is a list on the help pages, but date and time are @time@ and @date@.
The "@" signs tell it to go get that info from the file.
You have control over the placement, color, size, font, etc. of the text.
After you create the html pages, you can view them to check the images. Then go copy the images Breeze Browser made out of the html directory. If done right, they will be exactly the same size as the files you started with and the file sizes will be about the same.
Most of all....
My friend can start sleeping in bed with his wife again. He says the couch was getting mighty uncomfortable....