I have five images that are from a photo shoot "Glittery Fingers". To keep track of them, I could give each of the five photos a unique file name, "Glittery Fingers ##", where ## is the number of the image. Furthermore, I can put these in a dedicated hard drive folder called "Glittery Fingers". I decided that I would instead just create an IMatch stack for these five photos to further organize. All very good so far in seeing the top photo, and being right away able to see the other four photos in a result window, as well as in the stack panel. How would I further yet identify this particular stack by a unique name? I see that someone added this as a feature request back in December, and I just now endorsed that particular request myself. In the meantime, however, what are some of you guys out there doing to solve this issue yourselves? Thanks in advance.
Why not use a Attribute and write the information you want to associate with the stack into the Attribute for the top file?
This allows you to show the data in the file window, tooltip, Attributes Panel, to use it for searching and sorting, filtering, and everywhere you can use variables...
Quote from: Mario on August 08, 2014, 09:04:33 AM
Why not use a Attribute and write the information you want to associate with the stack into the Attribute for the top file?
This allows you to show the data in the file window, tooltip, Attributes Panel, to use it for searching and sorting, filtering, and everywhere you can use variables...
Yes, that is a very good tip.
I did this and you can do then a lot of things, and it is easy to use.
While I had an attribute for automatic stacking, I changend then to an xmp-field for the same thing.
At the moment (I am still in the test-phase) I use the field "File.MD.XMP::dc\identifier\Identifier\0" and I found the name "identifier" fits and the field (I guess) is not often used.
I find it even easier then using an attribute.
You can find info about the suggested usage for each of the Dublin Core (dc) tags in XMP here:
http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
The identifier field is meant to identify a resource (aka an image, video, audio file) in any way you see fit.