I've decided to give Lightroom (2.6) a solid try. I am migrating from iView/Expression Media and in that program it has a tool to export EXIF data to the clipboard. This makes it very easy to then paste into a BPN post.
Does anyone know how to do this in Lightroom. I am aware of other software that will do this but to streamline workflow I really want to involve as few programs as possible and hence do it in Lightroom if possible.
I've been using Lightroom since the beginning and I don't believe there is a simple way to do this..it's all very nicely displayed but there is no simple export or copy/paste function. The question has come up on the Adobe Lightroom forums a number of times and has been suggested as a new feature....not sure if it's been included in the 3.0 beta.
I've been a Breezebrowser convert the last several months, after reading several of Arthur's bulletins recommending it I finally gave it a try and love it. I find it faster than Lightroom and it's a simple matter to cut and paste EXIF data from it. Lightroom for me gets sluggish at times...it does some nice tricks as far as creating quick collections, etc. but I find I use BB to access my images more and more.
John the current version (beta) does not have the feature but maybe the final release will, we can only hope.
The LR workflow is so smooth I could not even think of changing !! btw all the different converters do things a little different and some are better for different applications !!! Used to use three of them but now I'm down to LR only !!!
If you are real creative you might be able to find a way to do this in Lightroom. There is a copy metadata command in the metadata menu but this does no go to the clipboard so you can't directly past it as you want. But with a bit of work one might be able to figure a way to access this.
If you use Firefox there is a plug-in (exif-viewer) for viewing exif data of images. Two catches though, I can't remember if you can copy the info it displays to the clipboard and I can't check as the plug-in hasn't yet be updated to work with the most recent release of Firefox.
John,
I open the explorer in windows, click on the file, then right click and select properties, click on summary and then on advanced. It displays all the exif details.
Also, I have the firefox exif viewer plug in. So at times I upload the image via firefox, click on preview, then right click and view the exif. A separate window dispaying exif opens. You can now select and paste.
Lightroom has been designed keeping photographers in mind, as opposed to photoshop which was designed with digital artists in mind. So the workflow is good in lightroom.
Thanks Sabyasachi. Re. Lightroom, I have been giving it a try as a replacement for Expression Media (EM; AKA iView Media Pro). On my dual G5 Mac, Lr is a pig; it runs much faster on my little white Intel MacBook. I have now gone back to EM, which incidentally has a neat "Copy EXIF to Clipboard" function, which Lr should have if it were indeed designed for photographers. The whole experience has underlined one thing- for me I need a really good Digital Asset Management tool and Photoshop. EM fits the bill as a DAM tool- it does this, and pretty well only this, extremely well. Lr OTOH is trying to be a DAM program and an image processor and IMO doesn't do either particularly well. My hope now is that Microsoft will continue to support EM- they say they will but there are rumblings out there that they are not that interested in it.
Perhaps of little importance now than you finished your experiment with Lightroom and have a simple solution for you needs using EM but perhaps this may be of some use in another context and it is not Lightroom dependent.
I found another exif add-on for Firefox called Fxif. Obviously one has to be using Firefox but this add-on lets you get much info about the image and copy it to the clipboard. For example, here is what it reports from the Snowy Owl image recently posted by Dehorah Hanson:
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D700
Lens: 200.0-400.0 mm f/4.0
Image Date: 2010-02-28 10:49:26 -0600
Focal Length: 550.0mm (35mm equivalent: 550mm)
Aperture: f/10.0
Exposure Time: 0.0006 s (1/1600)
ISO equiv: 320
Exposure Bias: +0.33
Metering Mode: Spot
Exposure: shutter priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Light Source: Unknown
Flash Fired: No
Copyright: Deborah Hanson / 2010
As a confirmed Lightroom and Mac user, that one has been bugging me too. Here's one solution --
1. Right click on an image file and Open with Firefox.
2. Have the FxIF Firefox plugin installed and working.
3. R. click on the image in Firefox, and click on Properties. The Exif data comes up.
4. Click on copy, then paste the info to where you want.
Here's the exif data for the White-eared Bulbul I posted in BPN yesterday, from the jpeg version on my hard drive, not the posted image.
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Image Date: 2010-01-29 14:16:16 -0400
Focal Length: 400.0mm (35mm equivalent: 600mm)
Focus Distance: 6.68m
Aperture: f/10.0
Exposure Time: 0.0008 s (1/1250)
ISO equiv: 500
Exposure Bias: -0.67
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Manual
Light Source: Flash
Flash Fired: No
Comment: Copyright R.Stern
It only works for jpegs. However, it's possible to open a raw image in Graphic Converter, and then copy/ paste the Exif from that. too. At the moment there doesn't seem to be a way of doing it directly from LR - seems a glaring omission to me.
New here. This is a great forum. Won't add to the excellent advice given here. John once you get comfortable with LR, you will find it superior to iView. I've been using it since version 1 beta. Its evolved nicely.
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