AutoProcessing
Photomanagement for new photos usually means
- move related photos to a commonon folder/album with a meaningfull name
- optional: rename photos from their standard name to a more meaningfull name
- optional: add photo properties (exif) (tags, geodata, title, description)
- optional: fix photo date
The android app "A Photo Manager" can do these in one step through autoprocessing if you define rulefiles per target folder.
Folder based autoprocessing for copy/move photo(s)
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select some potos that show the hotel of your kreta/greece holyday ("kreta" is the german name for the island of "crete")
- From menu choose the Move command
- In the Folder-Picker select the directory where you want to move the selected photos to.
- Choose the ".../0709Kreta/§ Hotel" folder.
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- Note: the § in front of "Hotel" indicates that Hotel is a smart autoprocessing folder
- Press ok to execute moving the selected photos to the "Hotel" folder.
- The smart Photo Autoprocessing Folder in this example
- automatically renames jpg files to 0708Kreta-Hotel001.jpg, 0708Kreta-Hotel002.jpg, ... 0708Kreta-Hotel005.jpg,
- automatically add exif-gps coordinates lat=35.3117366 and lon=25.29602 to all photos that do not have gps data.
- automatically add tags(keywords) Hotel, Kreta, ... to all photos that do not have them.
- automatically add exif-description text "Holiday on Crete, Greece, 2007" to all jpg that have not exif-description.
For every Folder/Album you can define a ".apm" (Auto ProcessingRule-) File that defines
- a pattern for photo-file-names
- photo properties (exif) that every photo should get.
In the folder contextmenu (long tap on a (sub)folder in the list or a button in the path bar) there is the command Edit Photo Autoprocessing to create or modify the ".apm"-AutoProcessingRule-File for this folder.
The Photo Autoprocessing editor contain 3 areas
- Context information
- a filename pattern
- exif data.
Note: If you create a new ".apm" (Auto ProcessingRule-) File while you have selected one or more photo files the photo properties (exif) of the .apm file is prepopulated from the selected photos
Note: If you long press on the exif picker button "..." the auto-apply-exif-info is updated from the selected photos. (since 0.7.3 #132)
- 5 Photots 07Kreta_344.jpg (2007-08-03), ...
- in the galler currently there are 5 photo files selected
- among the selected is the file "07Kreta_344.jpg" which was taken on 2007-08-03
- To /storage/emu..../0709Kreta/Hotel
- these 5 files will be moved to this folder
- 0708 (yyMM)
- the first part of the new filename is based on the photo date from the context "2007-08-03"
- 0708 (yyMM) is made of 2 digit year and 2 digit month of "2007-08-03"
- if you press the spinner you can select other values for the name prefix
- " " empty no date based prefix
- 07 (yy) two digit year
- 070803 (yyMMdd) year month day
- 2007 (yyyy) 4 digit year
- 200708 (yyyyMM)
- 20070803 (yyyyMMdd) year month day
- the first part of the new filename is based on the photo date from the context "2007-08-03"
- Kreta-Hotel
- the middle part of the filename
- 001
- the filename suffix
- 001 means running number with at least 3 digit and leading zero
- if you press the spinner you can select other values for the name prefix
- " " empty no suffix
- 1 (one digit suffix)
- 01 (two digit suffix with leading zero)
- ...
- 00001 (5 digit suffix with leading zero)
- the filename suffix
The first file (from 2007-08-03) will get the name "0708Kreta-Hotel001.jpg" if that filename does not exist in the destination folder yet. The next "0708Kreta-Hotel002.jpg", then "...003.jpg"
Note: If the source file name already contain the middle part "Kreta-Hotel" it will not be renamed. Example "Kreta-Hotel-panorama.jpg" will not be renamed.
If you press the 
button behind "filename pattern"
you get the "filename pattern menu"
- Clear will remove the data from the filename pattern so filles will not be renamed.
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0708Hotel001 will set this pattern that is based on
- "0708" is the last used date pattern (assuming the example photo date is "2007-08-03")
- Hotel is the current output folder without digits (.../0708Kreta/Hotel)
- "001" is last used number pattern
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0708Kreta-Hotel001 will set this pattern that is based on
- "0708" is the last used date pattern (assuming the example photo date is "2007-08-03")
- Kreta-Hotel is the current output parentfolder and folder without digits (.../0708Kreta/Hotel)
- "001" is last used number pattern
The photo properties (exif) part contains a summary of the properties that every photo will receive.
Note: Existing exif-data in jpg files will not be overwritten. Example if a jpg already has exif-gps the exif-gps from the autoprocessing will not be applied.
If you press the [...] button behind "exif" you can edit the properties (exif).
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or "Ok" button saves the current values and go back to the caller. -
or "Cancel" button or the back button closes the editor without affecting the caller. -
or "Delete/Clear Filter" sets all to empty which means "no autoprocessing".
