Most of the time I use my chosen DAM tool to navigate my photo collection. Sometimes, though, I use the plain old Windows Explorer to browse photos in my photo collection, usually indirectly when an application such as Photoshop automatically turns on the thumbnail view in the Open File dialog. That unfortunately causes Windows Explorer to leave a pile of hidden files named Thumbs.db in every folder I visit. I find that annoying enough to write a quick and dirty little IMatch script to seek out and delete those files. (more…)
Archive for January, 2007
Removing Those Pesky Windows Thumbnail Database Files
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Including Inline Pages in WordPress
Sunday, January 28th, 2007After I started using WordPress I quickly realized that there is often need to incorporate snippets of text on posts or pages. I could of course just use a link to another page, but for certain things I liked the immediacy of inline inclusion better. I wrote an extremely simple WordPress plug-in that will pull in any page referred to by its ID. (more…)
Generating Histograms from Photo Tags
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Occasionally I like to visualize how many photos are assigned to a given set of tags in my photo collection. One common example of this is the Ratings tag which has 5 sub-tags ranging from 1-Bad to 5-Stellar. Another example is the When tag which has sub-tags for each year (and within each year, the months). This simple IMatch script automates the process of visualizing the histogram plot of the number of photos assigned to each sub-tag under a parent tag. (more…)
Generating Label Stickers from Photo Names
Sunday, January 28th, 2007In the past my photo printing vendor did not print filenames on the backsides of the photos. Back then I had to manually scribble the filename of the photo on the back of the print, in case I ever wanted to find that photo for re-prints. Being the lazy guy I am, I created this script that generated a Word doc I could print on an Avery 8167 sticker sheet, ready to be applied to the backs of the photos. (more…)
Exporting EXIF properties to Excel
Saturday, January 27th, 2007This a very simple IMatch script that I use occasionally to export EXIF properties of one or more images to Excel to analyze my shooting habits. (more…)