Hi,
I'm using the rating feature on Vista. My question is how can I search by rating using Opus? For example, images with rating >3.
Thanks.
I don't think you can at the moment (except, perhaps, if you've installed Google Desktop Search and are using it within Opus; not sure about that as I've never used it).
A request for support of the rating field has already been sent to GPSoftware, FWIW.
okay, thanks.
Is there a way to search the tags? 'cause I can in my imaging management software to apply certain tags based on rating, so if I take the example above, I can have the tags to be: animals; nyc; fall; color; 4-stars
Can I search by this?
Tags are the same as ratings; not possible at the moment but they've been requested.
If your image manager can write the tags into the descript.ion format then Opus will be able to read and search those.
I have no idea which image program atazur uses Leo, but my guess is the ratings etc are written to xmp. Depending on the image type that could be a sidecar file with the same name as the image but with an XMP file extension, or the xmp ratings could be written to the actual image file itself. It's still very much a sticky wicket and will be until the industry finally settles upon which way to go.
Thanks for the help.
I'm using the Adobe family to manage and edit my images [CS3, Bridge and Elements]. After applying tags, rating, etc. there's a function to "write properties into photo". I can only assume that's the only way of doing that.
I wonder if there's a 3rd party software that can convert this format to the one supported by DO.
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I also use Adobe Bridge, CS3, plus Lightroom and IMatch. Each of those programs use the xmp method for ratings, and labels. Things like keywords, captions and so on will vary between the different applications depending upon how we have them configured. In other words there is no set standard yet although my money is on the odds that it'll eventually become what Adobe is doing now.
For what it's worth, what follows is a quote by Mario Westphal from about 2 years ago. Mario is the author of IMatch and he was addressing the then issues, and still true now issues, of ratings, labels, and metadata in general in images. If I were GPSoftware, I'd wait at least until the smoke clears before I would consider implementing support for things like ratings.
[quote="Mario Westphal"]Standard IPTC is dying quickly. Adobe is using their monopoly and the influence they have on stock photo agencies and the IPTC steering committee to make sure that standard IIM IPTC (Adobe labels this 'legacy') will be outdated soon. The market power of Adobe and the fact that nearly everybody in the industry must use Photoshop also adds weight to the XMP stuff. Adobe will for sure at some point in time just stop to support standard IPTC in their applications and exclusively rely on XMP.
The EXIF mess (especially the maker notes) is not really tackled by XMP, so there will be no change soon. The approach of IMatch to wrap it into XMP to make it accessible to users works quite well so far.
A conference on the future of EXIF in held in August in Germany, so perhaps we can make some changes there, e.g. wrapping EXIF into an XMP envolope for easier processing/ transfer between files. But that would require the camera vendors to play along, and I doubt they care. Not after they still rely on their oh-so-fantastic RAW formats.
The industry will switch to XMP over the next years, no doubt about that. Adobe is taking care that XMP becomes widely known (check the press over the next couple of months for articles about XMP, for example).
Unless Google comes up with gYMP or something alike, only Microsoft has the market power to promote a different metadata standard. Which they will, along the line of their new "better" JPEG image format. Adobe has DNG so Microsoft needs also their own image format (plus metadata, probably). Having control over the imaging formats and metadata formats you use for your images gives these companies also some level of control over your buying decisions, and that's what this is all about.[/quote]
If I were GPSoftware I would seek to support as many as possible. The fact that there isn't a standard yet in the market should be an encouraging factor for 3rd party applications like DO. But that's just me.
Thank for the info.
My main objective is to create collections of files based on ratings and tags. By the way, I couldn't find a way to display the rating [a column in a detailed view]. If I could do that, I could copy the files to collections manually.
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Has anything been changed in OPUS since this post to allow files to be rated and a search by rating?
This would be most helpful.