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I’m not sure how often I will use it but if you need to edit the EXIF of an image here is a simple and free tool you can use. Microsoft Photo Info loads itself as an extension to explorer so you can Right Click to access it’s Properties. This has been out for awhile so you’ve probably seen it, but in case you haven’t it might be worth looking into.

Microsoft Photo Info is a new software add-in for Microsoft Windows that allows photographers to add, change and delete common “metadata” properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. It also provides enhanced “hover tips” and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Explorer (in Details view).

Using Microsoft Photo Info

After running Setup, a new “Photo Info” item appears in the file context menu in Windows Explorer. Simply select one or more image files in Windows Explorer, right-click and choose Photo Info. Use the tab pages to choose the properties you wish to view or change, then click OK or Apply to save your changes. Microsoft Photo Info does not modify the image pixel data in any way when saving changes; only valid “metadata” properties are updated or added to the image file.

Microsoft Photo Info supports most of the common IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) properties commonly used in digital photography workflows.

Features

• View or edit photo metadata from inside Windows Explorer. Now, advanced image properties are at your fingertips from within Windows.

• Edit images individually, or as a collection. Photo Info has two edit modes: individual and collection, making it easy to update many images at the same time.

• Quick recall of recent entries. For some properties, Photo Info remembers the most recent entries you have typed. To recall a recent entry, click on the drop down arrow and select it from the list.

• Generate copyright notice automatically. Photo Info can generate a standard copyright notice automatically from the Author and date Created information, if present.

• Quick recall of location details. To help save time when entering location information, Photo Info can save location details under a name you provide. Recall these details by selecting the location name from the drop-down menu.

• Correct EXIF capture date / time information. Photo Info can optionally update the EXIF date/time information as recorded in the image file by your camera. You can use this feature to correct the file capture date if your camera’s clock was set incorrectly (for example, to the wrong time zone).

• View EXIF properties. Click on the Details tab to view common EXIF properties. Click on More properties for additional details.

• Preview the image. To see a larger preview of the image, double-click on the thumbnail.

• Enhanced hover tips. Hover tips have been enhanced for JPEG, TIFF and other supported file types in Windows Explorer.

• Custom column properties. In Windows Explorer when viewing a folder in Details view, additional sort properties are available for supported image types.

Supported file types

The initial release of Microsoft Photo Info supports the following common image file types: JPEG, TIFF, WDP, HDP (HD Photo), NEF, CR2, and CRW¹. Support for additional file formats is under consideration for a future release.

More information here:

Skip the registration/verification process and download the file from here:

Then you need these tools. The IE Developer Toolbar and Firebug for Firefox are must have tools if you are trying to code, adjust or rework your website. With the changes we’re making to the site I have been using the two tools and they are great! Firebug is actually a big more powerful in that you can change and edit CSS and HTML right in the browser and see the effects of those changes without changing the actual source code. You can test out color combinations, resize objects, change padding etc and see if you like the results right on the page itself. It’s incredibly handy! Check em out!

The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.
• Find the style rules used to set specific style values on an element.
• View the formatted and syntax colored source of HTML and CSS.

The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.

IE Developer Tooolbar

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Firebug Toolbar

The end of the year is nearly here and as I look back there have been a lot of accomplishments for me personally. First of all the site actually got off the ground. It was a sketch start with some server issues and getting all the components together, but now it’s running smoothly.

I’ve posted a lot of galleries over the months and had a great time taking shots in the botanical gardens and trackside with the Porsche club. When I first started putting the pieces together I wouldn’t have guessed I would be taking 20,000+ shots in a single year and making a whole slew of new galleries. And out of those 20,000 shots many are keepers but only a small percentage are excellent. But each one taught me something and helped me improve and that’s the point.

From the photography standpoint things have been great. I’ve worked with a lot of new subjects and all sorts of environments, from high speeds cars, colorful full bloom flowers, flaming pumpkins and even shots of the city skyline from the rooftop. All in all, a lot of fun and some real keepers came out of it.

So where to from here? Well, there is a lot planned for 2008. The big news is the 8×10gallery is expanding and bringing on new photographers. Randy Zellner, a long time friend of mine and an excellent photographer from Arizona, is bringing his knowledge and his photos to the site. We are teaming up to bring you a wide variety of images, which will now be on sale in our brand new Photo Store! The store is nearly complete (we are selecting photos right now) and once we complete that all new links will show up on the site to get you there. We are featuring flowers, landscapes, cars, animals, architecture, abstracts, sports and all sorts of subjects. These aren’t just stock images of fruit and vegetables from a grocery, but great landscapes and scenic views which you can use on your website, print for your walls or download for your computer wallpaper.

We are very excited about making our photos available and look forward to offering you high quality yet affordable images for your projects.

We also have site updates planned for the new year such as updating the blog with a new look as well as changing the gallery format, adding new images from both Randy and myself, plenty of behind the scenes changes, a whole schedule of track racing shots, more architecture shots, landscapes and lots of other little updates we have planned.

I’m looking forward to a pretty adventurous and productive 2008. 2007 had a lot of new opportunities and I think 2008 is just going to expand on that.

Don’t be surprised if you start seeing the site change right before your eyes. And if you want to learn more about Randy and his photography, check out his personal website at http://www.terminalfrost.net.