Really simple comments in JPG needed

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Michael Wardreau

I'm looking for a freeware proggie that will allow me to put a caption
in a JPEG for all the pictures in a directory.

For every trip or event I want to put the date and event in the
pictures. It would be nice th have an outline font so that the
comment will still be visible if the text color matches backrgound.

Thanks
Mike
 
"Michael Wardreau" wrote
I'm looking for a freeware proggie that will allow me to put a caption
in a JPEG for all the pictures in a directory.
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www.irfanview.com

File | Batch Conversion / Rename
Set advanced options
Settings for all Images
Add Overlay Text
Settings
Add overlay text to image
Uncheck 'Text is tranperant
Set background color
OK

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard
 
Second try failed, too. I looked in the default directory, but
nothing three. It didn't change the original files, either.

I'll name with a unique file name and do a comprehansive search on my
hard drive.
 
I found it.: I had to add the files to the box on the left. I guess
I now have to know how many pixels wide my picture is. I'll get it
right, I suppose.

Thanks again
Mike
 
After many tries I find it's probably impossible to do this without
reading the entire manual in Ifran. In other words, It's not
intuitive.

Sorry -- On to Photodater to see what they have to offer.
 
Photodater doesn't allow comments. I haven't used it yet, though. I
did d/l it and ran it to the first step. I used up all my time on
Ifran. I'll play with it (the program ;-) later.

Thanks,
Mike
 
I dated a photo but I can't get a background color and the "bottom
right" runs it off the picture.

22-point text was too small so I tried 72-point and no text shows up.

I'm back to square one.

Thanks anyway,
Mike
 
Two people suggested a solution which I appreciate, but they aren't
"really simple." Anyone else have any ideas?

I was thinking of a block I could move on a graphic of the picture,
fill in the text, add a date and press OK and the whole directory
would have that text at that location with my background color and a
text and font color that I want.

The solutions suggested forces me to try many locations to see if the
text fits and is in the right spot.

Mike
 
Michael Wardreau said:
Photodater doesn't allow comments. I haven't used it yet, though.
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Well in the box where you put the date put a comment after the date!
It does allow it because thats what i do!
Some thing like 22/07/06 this is us on the beach etc
 
I'll try that. I didn't do it before because the proggie prompted me
to enter the date a (something like) YYY/MM/DD, so it didn't occur to
me to put text in theren also,

I was looking at XnView. The batch processes but it only worked on
one picture and wouldn't do any more. I tried it several times and it
wouldn't even change the one it changed before when I changed the
parameters.
 
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:12:35 GMT in alt.comp.freeware, Michael
Wardreau said:
I'm looking for a freeware proggie that will allow me to put a caption
in a JPEG for all the pictures in a directory.
Click to expand...

ImageMagick can do that, but I found it pretty difficult to get all
the options right to get it looking just like I wanted.
 
After many tries I find it's probably impossible to do this without
reading the entire manual in Ifran. In other words, It's not
intuitive.

Sorry -- On to Photodater to see what they have to offer.
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I too find Irfanview's captioning to be just about impossible to use.

Does Picture-Shark do what you want?
http://www.picture-shark.com/
 
I'm looking for a freeware proggie that will allow me to put a caption
in a JPEG for all the pictures in a directory.

For every trip or event I want to put the date and event in the
pictures. It would be nice th have an outline font so that the
comment will still be visible if the text color matches backrgound.
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To add a text string onto a set of images you can use
FastStone Image Viwer (FSIV) or FastStone Photo Resizer (FSPR)
http://www.faststone.org/


1.Start up FastStone Image Viwer
2.Go to the folder/directory with the images you want
to add a text string on
3.Mark the images (Ctrl A = select all)
4.Go to the menu "Tools" and click on "Batch Image Convert/Rename"
5.Activate/tick the option "use Advance option"
6,Click on button "Advanced Options"
7.Go to the tab "Text" and activate/tick "Use Text"
8.Add the text
9.Click "Ok"
10.Choose the output file format and then click on the "Settings" button
to modify the file format settings (like quality/compression)
11.Choose the output folder/directory
12.Click on the "Start" button


1.Start up FastStone Photo Resizer
2.Go to the folder/directory with the images you want
to add a text string on
3.Mark the images you want to change, click on the "Add" button
(you can also click on the "Add all" button if you want to change
all the images in that directory)
4.Activate/tick the option "use Advance option"
5.Click on button "Advanced Options"
6.Go to the tab "Text" and activate/tick "Use Text"
7.Add the text
8.Click "Ok"
9.Choose the output file format and then click on the "Settings" button
to modify the file format settings (like quality/compression)
10.Choose the output folder/directory
10.Click on the "Start" button



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Regards
CoMa

http://hubbabub.deviantart.com/
 
To add a text string onto a set of images you can use
FastStone Image Viwer (FSIV) or FastStone Photo Resizer (FSPR)
http://www.faststone.org/


1.Start up FastStone Image Viwer
2.Go to the folder/directory with the images you want
to add a text string on
3.Mark the images (Ctrl A = select all)
4.Go to the menu "Tools" and click on "Batch Image Convert/Rename"
5.Activate/tick the option "use Advance option"
6,Click on button "Advanced Options"
7.Go to the tab "Text" and activate/tick "Use Text"
8.Add the text
9.Click "Ok"
10.Choose the output file format and then click on the "Settings" button
to modify the file format settings (like quality/compression)
11.Choose the output folder/directory
12.Click on the "Start" button


1.Start up FastStone Photo Resizer
2.Go to the folder/directory with the images you want
to add a text string on
3.Mark the images you want to change, click on the "Add" button
(you can also click on the "Add all" button if you want to change
all the images in that directory)
4.Activate/tick the option "use Advance option"
5.Click on button "Advanced Options"
6.Go to the tab "Text" and activate/tick "Use Text"
7.Add the text
8.Click "Ok"
9.Choose the output file format and then click on the "Settings" button
to modify the file format settings (like quality/compression)
10.Choose the output folder/directory
10.Click on the "Start" button
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That's pretty good. I have Irfan, XnView, FastStone installed, so
I've tried them all. Fastone doubles the picture filesize. I like
the live locator, the box, the colored text, etc. I'll use Fastone.
Thank you for responding.

I'll put in a request to allow Exif date without time to be added.

Mike
 
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:12:35 GMT in alt.comp.freeware, Michael


ImageMagick can do that, but I found it pretty difficult to get all
the options right to get it looking just like I wanted.
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I found it rather difficult (nope - impossible) to find a copy of the
program. Not being a programmer I'm not familiar with Visual Studio
and Visual Basic and other things like that. Thanks for the lead
anyway.

Mike
 
I too find Irfanview's captioning to be just about impossible to use.

Does Picture-Shark do what you want?
http://www.picture-shark.com/
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No, that's for embossing pictures (logos) on other pictures.
I just want a simpe text line or two with the Exif date.

Fastone almost does it. Irfan could have made it but it's too kludgy.
 
I found it rather difficult (nope - impossible) to find a copy of the
program. Not being a programmer I'm not familiar with Visual Studio
and Visual Basic and other things like that. Thanks for the lead
anyway.
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You can download the latest ImageMagick here

ImageMagick-X.X.X-X-XXX-windows-dll.exe (Dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel)
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows

ImageMagick is set of commandline programs.



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Regards
CoMa

http://hubbabub.deviantart.com/
 
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