Last week I compiled all of my panoramas from the last few years using a great piece of software called Autostitch. Here’s one from Phi Phi Thailand in 2004:

One of the things I don’t like about Autostitch is that the resulting image has no EXIF data in it. So I set out looking for a way to take the information from the first image in the set and transfer it into the resulting panorama. I really wanted to be able to do this in ACDSee Pro because it’s my image manager of choice but after digging around it looks like it’s not possible even in the latest version. After some searching I did manage to find a solution though:

ExifTool by Phil Harvey

It’s originally a Perl script but there are Windows and OSX executables available to download. It’s a command line tool so you’ll have to extract it into a folder that is in your PATH.

ExifTool can do all sorts of various EXIF related tasks but the one I was interested in was copying the info from one JPG to another and that is achieved by doing the following:

exiftool -TagsFromFile STA_2319.JPG (image from) IMG_2319_pano.JPG (image to)

And it worked like a charm. It even created backups of the file that it was modifying. Sweet!

Hi everyone. I’ve installed WordPress once again. Will I keep it updated? Maybe. In the last few months it has become obvious that I need to start marketing myself and my business for the first time in years. With the Ethan Allen gig coming to a close and no good sized prospects on the horizon I need to have a place where I can direct potential clients to so that they can see my body of work and the other things that make me tick. Postings will not be strictly work related but things will be more focused on my tendency to nerd out on just about everything.

I have a number of small personal projects that I’m working on while living in Buenos Aires until the end of March. I will keep you updated on their status’ here.

The posts that I’m planning on making this month are (in no particular order):

• ethanallen.com
• theblackhouseshirt.com
• Julie Stolberg’s blog customized
• this blog customized
• super awesome manager of popups, modals and overlays (SAMoPop)
• super awesome manager of forms (SAMoForm)
• Argentina pics
• Burning Man Airstream dream (The Soundstream)