PlugIn: Tag Photos

[tmiranda]

Finally got around to create a plugin that I've wanted to write. This plugin allows you to "tag" photos that appear during a slideshow or screensaver and then review them as a group.

I love seeing my photos as a screensaver but very often while I am watching I see a photo that needs to be rotated or removed. I have many thousands of photos and it's almost impossible to locate the photo that needs to be fixed. With this plugin you can "tag" the photo and then go back and find it very easily.

Instructions:

During a slideshow or screensaver press 8 (which is the letter T on the remote) to tag the photo. Press the 8 again to untag it.

In the Photos section of the main menu you will see a new menu item that allows you to view the tagged photos. While browsing them you can use the 8 key to untag them as well.

Just one more thing ... (my tribute to Steve Jobs) Very often when the screensaver is on I can't get to the remote until after the picture I want to tag is passed. Fear not, this plugin will also tag the 5 photos that appeared before you actually tagged the picture. I call these photos "pre-tagged".

When browsing the tagged photos you can press the skip backwards or skip backwards2 key to bring up the 5 photos that appeared before the actual tagged photo.

If you bring up the options menu in the photo browser you will see some items in there that allow you to tag, untag, view the pre-tagged photos and untag all of the photos.

Enjoy. Post here for support.

Note: Right now this only works from the slideshow, not the screensaver.

[JREkiwi]

Thanks, it's an issue I've always had when the screensaver slideshow is running "I wish I could easily find that image again".

FYI. looks like the default for pretag = 0

John

[routerunner]

Thanks Tom, very useful indeed, it's always very nice to see some development activity after all the Goodds...

Eddy

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Thanks, it's an issue I've always had when the screensaver slideshow is running "I wish I could easily find that image again".

FYI. looks like the default for pretag = 0

John

Darn, I changed that for testing and forgot to put it back. I'm putting in an option to allow the user to change that. Thanks John.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Thanks Tom, very useful indeed, it's always very nice to see some development activity after all the Goodds...

Eddy

Eddy - Thanks. I still can't find anything that suits my needs better than Sage. Might as well continue "tweaking" it until something better comes along.

[matt91]

Cool.

We dump all our of photos onto our NAS (from 2x phones and 3x cameras). I use exiftool to bulk auto-sort them into folders based on date. This means that along with all of the photos of the kids and family, we get a fair amount that are of the wiring on the alarm system motion sensor before I relocated it, or of some serial number that I wanted (long ago) to keep track of, etc.

My wife always hates having these pop up on the TV, but they are a huge pain to get to and delete.

Looking forward to trying it out.

thanks
Matt

[tmiranda]

I've added in an option to change the number to pretag and added a warning before untagging all photos.

Any other fixes or additions needed before I upload the new version?

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by matt91

My wife always hates having these pop up on the TV, but they are a huge pain to get to and delete.

Looking forward to trying it out.

Yes, this is a good example of what this plugin is good for. Let me know how it goes for you.

[tmiranda]

New version available:
- Defaults to 5 pretagged photos instead of 0.
- Option to change the number of pretagged photos.
- Warning before untagging all photos.

[briands]

Originally Posted by matt91

Cool.

...
My wife always hates having these pop up on the TV, but they are a huge pain to get to and delete.

Looking forward to trying it out.

thanks
Matt

+1 great concept...
slightly related to this specific comment, is there a good photo manager program that supports networked storage?

[pjpjpjpj]

Very cool idea. I will try it out this weekend.

Here's a thought: is it possible to add a single-button-press rotate function, if not in the screensaver then just in the photo viewer? It's a serious pain to rotate photos in Sage one by one, and my wife has this tendency to take EVERY picture with the camera turned. It would be awesome if you could just assign, in the screen saver or slideshow, (for example) the "4" button to rotate left and the "6" button to rotate right. This would even allow you to set up a slideshow with a folder full of photos you want rotated, set the view time to like 2 seconds, and just sit there and rotate them as they scroll through quickly.

I'm guessing maybe this isn't possible (since if it was, there wouldn't be much need for this plug-in as it is)? Just asking.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Here's a thought: is it possible to add a single-button-press rotate function, if not in the screensaver then just in the photo viewer? It's a serious pain to rotate photos in Sage one by one, and my wife has this tendency to take EVERY picture with the camera turned. It would be awesome if you could just assign, in the screen saver or slideshow, (for example) the "4" button to rotate left and the "6" button to rotate right. This would even allow you to set up a slideshow with a folder full of photos you want rotated, set the view time to like 2 seconds, and just sit there and rotate them as they scroll through quickly.

I think that's do-able. I'll have to think through how the interface would have to work.

[mdnttoker]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

I think that's do-able. I'll have to think through how the interface would have to work.

Tom - This is perfect, I have the same problem all the time. Have just put up with the annoyance factor until now.

I would love an in-Sage rotate option to fix it then and there....

Cheers!!

-Dan

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by mdnttoker

Tom - This is perfect, I have the same problem all the time. Have just put up with the annoyance factor until now.

I would love an in-Sage rotate option to fix it then and there....

Cheers!!

-Dan

There is already a rotate function built in. Bring up the options menu when a photo is displayed and it's there.

What I was thinking about doing was putting in an option to rotate all of the tagged photos.

[phantomfsoc]

Hi,

I installed the plugin but it doesn't work.
Hitting 8 just quits the slideshow and there's no new menu under the Pictures menu.

Is there anything special to the install?

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by phantomfsoc

Hi,

I installed the plugin but it doesn't work.
Hitting 8 just quits the slideshow and there's no new menu under the Pictures menu.

Is there anything special to the install?

It currently only works for the slideshow, not the screensaver. I'm still working on that

[phantomfsoc]

Ohhhh ok. I'll keep an eye out to see if you get that going.
Thanks

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by phantomfsoc

Ohhhh ok. I'll keep an eye out to see if you get that going.
Thanks

I should have made that clearer on the first post. My bad.

[mdnttoker]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

There is already a rotate function built in. Bring up the options menu when a photo is displayed and it's there.

What I was thinking about doing was putting in an option to rotate all of the tagged photos.

Ahhh...there it is, even better!!

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

There is already a rotate function built in. Bring up the options menu when a photo is displayed and it's there.

Yeah, mdnttoker, my point when first suggesting the one-button idea is that the built-in function is like a three-button-press process, and it would be great to reduce it to one - or even better, as Tom suggested, allow tagging and then do a batch rotate.