Adobe PE Organizer or Picassa or DIS 2006 to ACDSee Photo Manager: A way to transfer your digital kits from a previous organizer to ACDSee and lose as little as possible.
Transferring your digital kit library from a
previous album organizer that uses tags. i.e. Adobe's photo organizer,
Picassa, DIS
Be forewarned that you will lose some organization. All the
organization should come with your .jpg files. You will lose all your
organization from your .png files.
In Adobe photo organizer, select all your images (or something like that.) I don't have this program so I don't know. Chose File -> Write Tag Info to File In
other organizers you might be lucky to have this information
automatically written to your files. In Picassa and DIS you do not need
to anything in this step.
In ACDSee Photo Manager, let ACDSee catalog the images. This will
not change anything, it will not do anything to the files, will not
move anything, etc. It will only go grab the thumbnails for quicker
viewing and the information about the files. This is information
written to the file by your camera or by other programs. If you haven't done this, choose Database | Catalog Files
If your
pictures are in My Pictures Folder, select the first top choice Catalog
the My Pictures Folder.
If not, select the second choice, Catalog a specific set of
folders. Choose Remove Folder and remove any previous folders in there,
then click on Add Folder and specify the directory you wish to catalog.
In Advanced Options, verify Import Exif & IPTC metadata is checked.
The bottom two should be checked also. Click Next and it should start
cataloging the images. If you have large amount of images, go grab a
nap....
Once ACDSee Photo Manager is done cataloging......
Now create the same Categories as you used previously (or you can
make modifications if you wish) in ACDSee. See Getting Started Tutorial
for how to create categories.
Now get the Organize Pane (View | Organize) and the Properties Pane
(View | Properties) Notice that at the bottom of those panes, you
should see the Organize Tab and Properties - Database Tab. To switch
between the 2, just click on the tab that you want.
In the Organize Pane:
In Auto Categories section
Expand Photo Properties
Expand Keywords (IPTC) (for Organizer & Picassa)
Expand Keywords (EXIF) (for DIS)
Click on the first keyword. This will find all your images with that keyword.
Select all of the results: Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-a
In the Properties Pane
Click on the box next to the category that matches your keyword and assign that category to your images.
You would then repeat these steps for how many keywords or categories you created.
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