topic Re: How do I post dates on my photos. in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

How do I post dates on my photos.

LydiaDavenport — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:56:05 GMT

How do I set my Rebel T3 so that it will save dates on my photos?

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

cicopo — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:08:18 GMT

The camera can't do it. You can however add that to the photo with many of the popular editing programs.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

LydiaDavenport — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 01:50:27 GMT

Stinks!

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

ebiggs1 — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:10:49 GMT

The date is stored automatically in the EXIF data with your photo.

If you are on a Windows machine, use Windows Photo Viewer, right click on the photo. Click on the Properties tab and finally click Details.

There is your date! Maybe not printed on the photo but it is printed in the photo.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

amfoto1 — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:12:44 GMT

That's right.... the date, time and a great deal more info about the photo are stored right in the image file.

Maybe there are softwares that can pick up the date from the EXIF data embedded in each photo and add it to the edge of an image as a watermark.

You could write an Action in Photoshop to do this, I know for certain. However it would need to be done image by image, not as a batch.

Adobe Lightroom can add a watermark in batches, will even scale it up or down to match different size images, but AFAIK it cannot retrieve EXIF data to do this.

Look into things like FastStone Photo Resizer, which has an automatic watermark option (among many other things) and deals with images rapidly in batches. I dunno if FastStone can do this, but similar softwares out there might be able to.

If you only wanted the date on the image, you could simply add it as part of your process when downloading images from your camera and storing them on your computer. You'd have to type in the date, then save it, and have that used as the watermark. Lightroom could do this. FastStone might be able to, too (last time I looked, FastStone watermarks had to be created in another software).

I'm guessing essentially you want to do a "Time/Date Stamp", the way film cameras used to do. Search online for softwares that can do that. In this day and age, you'd think someone would have written a software to do it.

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Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

hsbn — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:48:28 GMT

Irfanview can do this in batch. The software is lite and free.

I have not seen any DSLR can do this in camera.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

cicopo — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:37:09 GMT

If it's just the date Picasa can be used to do it too (as a batch) by adding the info using the watermark option. If it date & time it's going to be a one at a time thing.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

LydiaDavenport — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:34:51 GMT

My Cannon digital Power Shot SD780 IS ... WILL date my photos and I am disappointed that this Rebel will not!

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

TCampbell — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:35:30 GMT

Lydia, this is because Powershot cameras are often used for "snapshots" -- where the point of the image is not to create a photographic work of art, but more to capture a memory -- and printing the date directly on the image can be desirable.

When you move up to a DSLR, the image quality goes up -- photographers demand more from their cameras with respect to image quality and you begin to think of the image as art. Printing the date on it is, in effect, a kind of graffiti which defaces it.

The camera DOES imbed the date info in the photo (it just doesn't print it ON the photo.) It's a fairly simple matter to apply the date after the fact using your computer.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

LydiaDavenport — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:26:46 GMT

It would be nice if you had the option.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

cicopo — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:17:23 GMT

It would be nice but you know just how forgetful people can be. Forgetting to turn it off could ruin many photos where important detail was covered by the date info.

Re: How do I post dates on my photos.

ebiggs1 — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:11:33 GMT

I have a data back for my F1n. Maybe Canon could create a "plug-in" or "hot shoe" something that would do it.