Save all metadata tags by default

[montagdude (Dan)]

Hello,

I’m new to ART and really liking it so far. I edited and saved a bunch of photos and later realized that ART doesn’t write all the metadata (EXIF) in the output files by default. I can click the “Select All Tags” button, but it’s a bit tedious to do that every time. So I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to apply all tags by default instead of just the Basic subset? I looked in Preferences and didn’t see anything about that, but it’s possible I missed it. If there isn’t a direct way to change the default behavior, what’s lowest-effort way to accomplish that? A custom processing profile?
2. Is there an easy way to apply all tags to the images I’ve already processed and resave them, or do I have to go through one-by-one and apply the change?

[agriggio (Alberto)]

Hi,

@montagdude

what’s lowest-effort way to accomplish that? A custom processing profile?

Yes, that’s the way to go. Just save a partial profile with only “Metadata mode” ticked:

Imporantly, remember to save the profile in your user profile directory (on Linux this is $HOME/.config/ART/profiles – similarly on windows but I don’t remember the exact path right now).
Then, add a new dynamic profile rule that selects the just-saved partial profile to be applied by default.

@montagdude

Is there an easy way to apply all tags to the images I’ve already processed and resave them

once you have the above partial profile, from the file browser just select all the images, right-click and then “Processing profile operations → Apply → My profiles → the profile you just created”.

HTH

[montagdude (Dan)]

Thanks, that did it! Good to know about dynamic profiles.