Ton of pictures taken, now how to tell??

[Daisy57b]

I did a lot of practicing this weekend. Some of my pictures I was really pleased with. I loaded them all onto the computer, but now how can I tell what settings I used on these pictures? I have a lot of bad ones, and some good ones...I need to know the settings so I know what I did right, and what I did wrong....or I should have just wrote it down as I was taking them??? Any ideas?

 

[amid chaos]

You are looking for what is known as "Exif data".
When I open a picture in Photoshop elements the data is in the lower left hand corner of the page.
It is also available when I load a picture to photobucket.com.

 

[hmgolden]

I use Picasa (from Google) as my photo organization program. If I right click on a photo in Picasa it lists all the data on photo from the camera used to take it, to dimensions of the file, and the appeture, ISO and shutter settings used.

 

[manning]

You are looking for what is known as "Exif data".
When I open a picture in Photoshop elements the data is in the lower left hand corner of the page.
It is also available when I load a picture to photobucket.com.

Or left click my computer and left click the drive the pictures are on until you get a list of pictures on the drive. Put the cursor over the picture you want and right click on it to get drop down menu. Go to the bottom and left click properties. Left click summary and there is all your info.

 

[T. Lynn]

Thanks for this thread. I use to have Picasa on my old computer and forgot all about it. Now I have it back to organize my albums.

Quick Question:

When you take pictures on your camera it assigns names (IMGP0001, etc..), is there a way to rename the series?

I had a program from my old camera that was like a photo editor and it also allowed you to rename the whole series (like NJ 1, NJ 2). You'd highlight the pictures, pick a name and it would assigned those with the new name and appropriate start number. Am I explaining it clear enough?

I didn't know if anyone else did this or if canon comes with software that will allow you to do this. It's a nice feature to have incase you start your number sequence all over and it won't overright a file with the same name.

 

[PaulD]

Most photo organizer have the ability to rename. In Picasa select the files you want to rename then click Picture -> Batch Edit -> Rename (or just press F2).

Personally, I love the program Downloader Pro (www.breezesys.com). It lets me name the files in many different ways, control where they are placed on the hard drive, auto-rotates the images, add IPTC data, etc. all at the time of downloading off of the card. It may be a little overkill for some but I really like it.

 

[nicurn]

cool, thanks for this info. maggie

 

[mickeymule]

You don't even need a seperate program. As long as you are using windows XP (maybe earlier versions, but I only know about xp) select the files you want to rename using the control key and clicking to select and hit f2, the first file will ask you to rename it just type it in and hit enter, for each file selected it will add a (1) to the image. For instance, if I renamed a file disney.jpg and had 5 other files selected, they would show up as disney(1).jpg disney(2).jpg etc. It works wonders


Good luck

 

[PaulD]

I had no idea!

 

[T. Lynn]

Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted. I never knew that it could be done with Picasa.