How: Dating Digital Photos

Whitesand · 27th December 2002

Need suggestion on how to put dates (preferably automatically) into digital Photos.

I know that we and do it individually using Photoshop, but if the total number of photos goes into hundreds, then the manual process is very terious.

Or alternatively, anyone know how to run photoshop in batch mode to to the following for all picture files in a single directory:

1. Open file in a single predefined directory
2. Insert a new layer with the date (predefined) as text
3. Save file in Photoshop format and or JPEG (compression predefined)?

Goondu · 27th December 2002

I use Breezebrowser as there is a function to cater to that.

ckhaos · 28th December 2002

In my opinion, one of the advantages of digital photography is to NOT have dates or other imprints tarnish a perfect photograph. Meta information such as dates, aperture/shutter/focal length etc. can be tagged to a file and displayed externally.

ajneo · 28th December 2002

inserting date manually using photoshop will make the file very big right?

rumraisin · 28th December 2002

Why not create an action that does it, then just open your files and run it on each one?

27th December 2002	#1
Whitesand Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 88	How: Dating Digital Photos Need suggestion on how to put dates (preferably automatically) into digital Photos. I know that we and do it individually using Photoshop, but if the total number of photos goes into hundreds, then the manual process is very terious. Or alternatively, anyone know how to run photoshop in batch mode to to the following for all picture files in a single directory: 1. Open file in a single predefined directory 2. Insert a new layer with the date (predefined) as text 3. Save file in Photoshop format and or JPEG (compression predefined)?

27th December 2002	#2
Goondu Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,333	I use Breezebrowser as there is a function to cater to that.

28th December 2002	#3
ckhaos Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 59	In my opinion, one of the advantages of digital photography is to NOT have dates or other imprints tarnish a perfect photograph. Meta information such as dates, aperture/shutter/focal length etc. can be tagged to a file and displayed externally.

28th December 2002	#4
ajneo Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 88	inserting date manually using photoshop will make the file very big right?

28th December 2002	#5
rumraisin Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 321	Why not create an action that does it, then just open your files and run it on each one?