Places Tags

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December 31, 2018
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Is It really imposible to support manual place insertion to Places Tags? I have tens of thousands of photos tagged manually and place names written in local language equivalents since Photoshop 2.0. Compulsory use of Maps is not only glumsy but also very serious disregard to old customers.

Matti

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Chilternphil

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It seems it is impossible to insert new names into PSE Places Tags. I wasted three hours yesterday trying everything I could. I migrated from PSE10 to 19 and fortunately had exported my Keyword Tags. When I migrated to 19 all my places tags were moved into the Places mapped version. I have about 20,000 photos back to the mid 1850's and generally only a rough idea (if any) of where they were taken.

I imported my keyword structure but then had to re-tag the files tagged with Places with my own Keyword tagged files; that was a couple of hours work this afternoon. I shall use my Location structure and ignore Adobe Places from now on, as I can control, add, move, at my choice. Its a case of more is less. It probably works for modern GPS tagged pictures but not for my collection. A choice to add manually surely isn't beyond the wit of man.

However if you haven't got an export of your old structure I thought of another slight short-cut, and have just tested the following as a method to recreate keywords without having to retype them all.

1. Import a JPG file - I suggest something you don't care about

2. Add all the Place Tags to it (one by one as far as I could see). It might be worth doing in subsets if you have a huge number - for calibration: I had about 250 locations.

3. Highlight JPG and write the tags to it.

4. Export as new JPG to desktop

5. Review desktop file with File Explorer to confirm all tags added

6. Delete JPG from PSE catalog

7. Import JPG from desktop

8. Window offers to import keywords; click advanced and see if any duplicates you want (I accepted them all)

9. Keywords appear under an Imported Keyword tag heading.

10 Organise as you want.

11. Use each entry in Places to display the subset of pictures; select all and Tag with the appropriate Keyword Tag

It might help someone.

Abambo

Community Expert

What Photoshop are you using?

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When a picture is geologged GPS coordinates are written into the corresponding exif fields.

The best solution is to have those inserted by the camera.

You can continue to tag your files with keywords, but those keywords do not have a meaning to the computers. A talented programmer could try writing a program to check those keywords against real places and try to geolog the file. The biggest problem I see here is with typos.

I see that on my own pictures when I try to name persons in pictures. That simply takes me an enormous amount of time. Geologging via a map is quite easy against that, as most of the pictures of a series are taken more or less at the same place. Even if the “place” is a whole town.

So you can do both: Tagging your way and geologging the coarse way.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

mattih47461907Author

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I just upgraded to Photoshop 19. I have photos starting from 1914, about twenty thousand taken before the digital camera was introduced in the 90's. All of them have been scanned and manually tagged - how else? When I import a new batch to PS Catalog, I can still use the old Places Tags, but if a certain place is new (not in the tags before), I must create a duplicate tagging system using Maps. The more cumbersome fact is that I have used local language place names with the old tags, but Maps is using English. I could edit the Maps produced names into local language, but PS is not capable to connect (or associate) them with the old tag names. The result, for example, is that when I want to look pictures taken in Venicce, I have to check tags for Italia, Venezia (old tags) and Italy, Province of Venice, Venice (maps tags) - really customer friendly. I wonder who is the Adobe PS wise guy that assumed that English is the only language in the wolrld and no pictures were taken before the invention of digital camera. Must be an American?

Matti