Is there a level below "Dummies"?

[Tom Waugh]

Hi Phil and Bogdan.

First of all I just wanted to praise you both for the work you guys do with ExifTool. I have been working as a professional photographer for many years and was recently looking around for a tool to let me add copyright info, photographer, location and keyword data on all my CR2 images taken over the years.

The general consensus on the 'net was that Exiftool could do all this and more.

I installed Exiftool and Bogdan's GUI and have managed (don't quite know how) to add the rquired  data a lot of the images in my data-bank.

All well and good so far....

When I open a directory of images, I can highlight them all and if I right click on the  Artist* field in the right hand Metadata window I get the option to "Fill in default values" this is great because it automatically fills in my name. Trouble is, I can't remember how I got the programme to do that!   

All the other details I have to manually add and press enter. This is (to say the least) tiresome.

I've been looking through this forum for the solution (as well as looking at the prog itself) for the last four days but still haven't been able to manage it.

All the talk of command line interface leaves me confused.

Hope you gentlemen can help

Thanks in advance and greetings from Switzerland.

Tom

[Beholder3]

See: https://exiftool.org/gui/

* -if tag name ends with this character (see Artist* above), then that means, that value defined in Hint text will be used as default value for this tag. In this case, if you right-click on Metadata panel (when in Workspace view mode), pop-up menu appears and there's option Fill in default values -you get the idea, I hope.

For recurring values best is to use a line with exiftool direct. E.g.

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-exif:Artist="Donald Duck" -exif:Copyright="(c) 2012 by Donald Duck" -xmp:CaptionWriter="Donald Duck"
adds three values to each selected file once you press [return] from within the command window on the lower end of the screen

You can easily save this as a predefined set.

[Tom Waugh]

Thanks Beholder. So as I understand it, if the asterisk is showing in the Workspace manager, then the hint text will automatically be filled in if right clicked and selected?

Is there a way that I can add an asterisk to labels in the Workspace manager?

Here's hoping (and apologies for the somewhat silly questions  ))

[Beholder3]

You choose in the menu "program / workspace manager...".
Then you single click on the row you want to edit (not the grey leftmost column, but the middle or right one).
At the bottom of the popup window you see the three input fields. In the leftmost you add your asterisk un the right hand one you add your personal default value.

[Tom Waugh]

Once again, thanks beholder. It worked a treat and I'm now able to save lots of time.

Kudos to you sir!  )