Moving between tagged images

[schammy77]

When I am in the IPTC info box of a particular image I can add text to any field and then hit "alt + right arrow keys" to save the info, go to the next image and keep the cursor in the field ready to type some more on the next image. I love this feature and use it all the time in conjunction with the code replacement feature as I keyword photos.

What I would like to be able to do is go from one tagged image to the next tagged image while doing this and skip the untagged images in between them. Some of you might say just change your viewing options to only view the tagged images, but hear me out on I think this could work.

I tag photos heavily during sporting events. After I do my ingesting with bulk IPTC data (including keywords that are common to the event) I then start added the unique keywords in the IPTC box. I use the preview of the image in the IPTC box to see the # of the player, use my code replacement to add the players name and number to the keyword field and then I could hit "shift + alt + right arrow keys" to save the info, jump to the next tagged image and have the cursor ready to go for the next code to be typed in. Now lets say I get to an image where I can't make out the players number. I can then use the left and right arrow keys to look at the images before and after my tagged image to see if I can make out the number. Once I find the right number I move back to the tagged image, add the code for the players keywords and then hit shift+alt+right arrow to go to the next tagged image.

I think a feature like this could be very useful when added images specific info to the IPTC.

If any one knows another way that I might try this or if it can already be done I would love to hear it.

Thank you

James

[devenh]

James,

I feel your pain    I shoot ski racing and have the same workflow as you do.

My shooting goes like this:  shoot a burst of 3-4 frames, pause 15-30 seconds, shoot a burst, pause, ...  Each racer has a bib number that I record on a voice memo.  The last race I shot I had 2,000+ photos over two days.

Between the start list, the voice memo, and the photo, I can pretty accurately identify the racer. But as you described, sometimes this requires examining each photo in the burst, some of which have not been tagged or starred (in my case I process only the starred photos, so my unstarred photos are equivalent to your untagged photos).  What I currently do is to open the IPTC info dialog box and go through all the photos, but I only enter the CR text for those that I have starred.

One possible solution would be to implement stacks as described in this thread:

http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=1773.0

Stacks could be automatically created of photos taken within 1/2 second of each other.  There could be a feature that allowed you to automatically apply all the IPTC edits applied to one image in the stack all the images in the stack.  One might say this can be done by selecting images and using the apply stationery command.  While true, it requires entirely too many mouse clicks (a real productivity killer) and keystrokes.  In my case, I'd have to do this 600 times 

Another approach would be to select a sequence in the contact sheet (hopefully with the keyboard, see http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=2900.msg13152#msg13152) and then edit them with the stationery pad.  Unfortunately, the stationery pad doesn't display the image.  Maybe the IPTC info dialog box could be modified to edit a group of selected images.

Deven

[mbrown]

I have a similar problem, except as the competitors don't come out one by one, and go around the field a few times (track events) and they are often grouped together, it's too hard to stack them.

If I was able to modify the shot cut keys to move left and right while in the preview it would make life easier.  I am tagging 6000 images at the moment form a junior triathlon.