Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app

[Ian Wood]

On 21 Jan 2008, at 01:34, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> 1) Display of thumbnails of images in a folder in a "gallery" type  
> window where images can be moved around, reordered, renamed, deleted  
> etc. where the window, if resized. will scale the number of row and  
> columns of thumbnails automatically (the app needs to  scale nicely  
> for a user on we 30 inch cinema display, and also run sweetly on a  
> 15 inch MacBook Pro.

You're assuming it's all going to be JPEG images? What will you do if  
someone wants to shoot RAW?

> 2) Reading and writing "standards quality" binary EXIF-IPTC-XMP data  
> to JPG or TIF files from inside revolution.
>
> I know it can be done... but it's tricky.

Calling EXIFTools is likely to be FAR easier and more reliable than  
trying to implement it yourself.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Ian