PhotoTalks: Feature Requests
| DeadlyDad on 30-Aug-2009 |
| Hi! First off, let me say how handy this program has been for me. I dumped approximately 1300 photos into it, then wrote a small script to group them into folders by date. I passed both on to my sister who probably has ten times as many pics, just as badly organized as mine. Wow, did that make our lives easier! I have a few suggestions for the next version: - Rename 'paired' files. For example, my camera saves both RAW and JPG versions of a pic, using the same file name with a different extention. Being able to rename both at the same time would save a *LOT* of hassle. - Work with other file formats. Many other formats (like PNG) contain relevant information that would be nice to access. For those that don't (or those that haven't been added yet), offer the option to pull the time/date from the file table itself. Personally, I would make such data external, so that upgrading would be easier. For example, downloading 'PNG.EXT' into the NamEXIF folder would allow NamEXIF to know how/what to exract from .png files. - Format string support. Instead of making users choose a pre-set format, they can enter their own. For example, 'YYYYMMDD-%GPSLATITUDE%~03,2~-%GPSLONGITUDE%~03,2~-IIII~a~', where any string delimited by percent signs denotes an EXIF tag value, and I is the index for any photos which have otherwise similar filenames. Strings delimited by tilde symbols represent formatting for the previous tag. For example, '~03,2~' means 'format the previous number, using zeros for leading any number with less than 3 digits, and rounding to 2 decimal places'. Likewise, '~a~' means 'Index, using lower case letters, starting with 'a'. This is obviously overkill for the regular user, but offers advanced users options that could make their life a lot easier. I would have the program save an .ini file that contains any format strings that have been used, so the user can just pick any previous one from a dropdown menu. One nice thing about switching to this style of system is that you don't have to do everything at once; date/time/index options will do for v1.6. - Make NamEXIF scriptable. Have all of the options available as command line parameters, either directly and pulled from '@COMMANDFILE.TXT' (as certain symbols have special significance on the command line.) Also, have an option to, as well as/instead of renaming the picture, output can be dumped to a text file, with space/tab/CSV delimiters. Once you offer the option to pull data from /any/ EXIF tag, this will make it trivial to import information from a shoot into a spreadsheet, etc. |
| KEP on 10-Sep-2009 |
| The format string is what brought me here. Just tried Nameexif for the first time, and *love* it! Was going to write this myself, but now I don't need to. <g> I'd love to be able to tweak that myself. For me, I might prefer: "YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS" for example. I know nothing's worse than validating (whacko!) user input on things like this. Another thought would be to have a dropdown with a few dozen variations, rather than just the three standard radio buttons there now? |