For the selected files you can go to File | Print and there you have a lot of options (Pictures Collection, Thumbnails, Single and a bunch of variables to insert in the Caption area of picture). If you can do an index print (as you said) you have a lot of options here. a result of a burst shot) you have Tools | Compare which will visually compare the selected files for you. If there are some photos which are almost the same (for ex.
go to the root of the 'suspect' folders in the Folders pane, right click on it and chose 'Show all files (recursive)' - this will show you all files from all subfolders in a single view. the simplest way: click on each folder and look. 300x200) - both settings are to be found in Tools | Settings | Database - then the only problem is to find a way to quickly navigate/scan the folders. Hence if you choose the most scalable compression available for thumbs (that is WebP) and an good size for your thumbs (eg. XnView MP has multiple monitor support and a very powerful browser - it can build very fast the thumbs (near real-time) and you can set up them to show you at any size you want. If this works, it is the quickest, simplest solution. I'll use to describe the methods the last version of XnView MP (which by the way has also a Linux version), the DAM with which I'm most accustomed and, at least for me, has the most features which I need in this area: There are several ways to do this - depending on what you can do and/or what are your constraints. I'm sure this is a common issue which someone has already solved.
That's at least a start, but it still involves a lot of staring at tiny thumbnails. The closest I've come to a solution so far is to use a program called feh which can (among other things) create an index print of a number of photos with the file names as captions. Just for reference, I have a couple of HP Photosmart printers for color printing at home. I currently manage the pictures on Linux using KPhotoAlbum, but if there's a really good solution on another OS, I'd be open to considering it. Picture files are so huge, that embedding a tiny amount of info in them would probably not affect image quality at all.
#Xnview mp read lightroom data serial number
I seem to recall that all color printers in the US print some kind of serial number in each picture using pale yellow pixels to help track counterfeiters. I wonder if anybody has a way to embed the info in the picture itself (not in the metadata) - kind of like steganography - so the print could be run through a scanner and then through a program to extract the data. That would take care of it - if I could run the photo paper through the printer twice without damaging the picture side.Įven if this would work, she still prints a lot of her photos at a photo shop and I can't control what they do or don't print on the back.
I have no idea how I could print the file info on the back of the picture like photo shops often do. Is there some way (preferably not visible in the print) to add information like the file name to the picture? Since this is a print, AFAIK, no metadata will be available. The one other major problem I have is when she comes to me with a print and says, "I want another copy of this one." I usually have a general idea of where to look because the photos are stored in batches in folders by date, but that only narrows it down so far and there may be many similar photos taken while trying to get just the right one. Aside from the time it takes to accurately tag them all (I only have about 7k of them tagged :( ), everything is fine. I manage a growing collection of jpeg photos (27k so far) for my partner.
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