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 metadata (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.

See also:

• edit metadata
• find photos
• define Virtual ALbums
• autoprocessing
• [supported meta data (exif,xmp,iptc)](supported meta data (exif,xmp,iptc))
• pc android meta sync
• Example: Take photos on android, autoprocessing (rename and add exif while move), transfer to pc

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Folder based autoprocessing for copy/move photo(s)

Example use:

• select some potos that show the hotel of your kreta/greece holyday ("kreta" is the german name for the island of "crete")
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• 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
• exif meta data 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.

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Photo Autoprocessing editor

The Photo Autoprocessing editor contain 3 areas

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• 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 meta data of the .apm file is prepopulated from the selected photos

The example context information

• 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

The example filename pattern has this meaning:

• 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
• 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 first file (from 2007-08-03) will get the name "0708Kreta-Hotel001.jpg", the next "0708Kreta-Hotel001.jpg" if that filename does not exist in the destination folder yet.

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.
• 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
• 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

Exif part

The exif part contains a summary of the exif meta data 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 exif.

• 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".

See also * #93 implementation details.