Author: hoju

Revised core features

We have released PIE 6.1 and PIE Studio 5.6.

The smart features for importing digital camera files and metadata-based renaming made our software so popular from the beginning. While keeping their simplicity, they are even easier to use now, with dedicated settings dialogs and the option to save and restore presets for frequently used configurations.

Along with various other improvements, this is a valuable update, also for the free version of PIE.

See the full list of changes:

• PIE History
• PIE Studio History

“My Tags” and editor templates

Picmeta Systems proudly announces PIE 6.0 and PIE Studio 5.5.

Among numerous enhancements, the new “My Tags” feature is fairly powerful*:

• Create your personal set of photo metadata. Instead of switching between EXIF, IPTC or XMP sections and scrolling through long lists, you can see the most important metadata at a glance.
• Any tag added to “My Tags” is made available as column for the metadata list, for the report, and for renaming (in PIE Studio also for printing). These tags are also searchable.
• You can rename tags. For example, use own tag names in the full metadata panel as well as in the editor dialogs.

Another much requested feature: Templates in the editor dialogs will greatly improve your productivity. Adding repetitive data such as photographer or copyright notice is now made easy.
Templates can also be used for adding predefined sets of keywords or categories, and you can apply various templates successively. It is very flexible.

*To configure “My Tags”, enable the full metadata panel in the main window (View menu or F4)

Sophisticated IPTC tagging

The latest releases PIE 5.7 and PIE Studio 5.1 provide unsurpassed keyword and category features:

Build hierarchical keyword and category collections
The list editor lets you add sub-items up to any level, allows to rearrange items by drag and drop, and supports copy and paste. The lists are saved in standard text files for easy archiving, sharing and backup.

Assigned tags are saved in the image metadata
What benefits would it have if assigned keyword and category tags were stored in an application database? You want to edit, reorganize and share your images. If the information is saved in the image metadata, you know it will always be there. You don’t even need PIE to be able to read it.

Assigned tags are displayed in their hierarchical context
The tree structure is not saved in the images, but rather recreated each time the metadata is extracted. This enables the best possible comfort within PIE while still maintaining full compatibility with any IPTC enabled application. You can even restructure the repository and it is immediately reflected without the need for updating the image metadata.

Comfortable batch processing of multiple files
Single tags can be added or removed while leaving other tags untouched. At this, the editor clearly indicate differing content of the files and what it will do.

Copy & Paste and better maintenance

Tagging image files with keywords became more productive. The keyword and category lists in the IPTC metadata dialog of PIE and PIE Studio now support copy & paste.

The feature can be accessed per right click or by clicking the icon at the lower right side of a keyword or category list box. Either selected keywords or the entire list will copied.

Additionally, the repository of available keywords is now saved in a standard text file, which can easily be backed up or moved to another computer. The file location is displayed at the bottom of the “Edit list” dialogs.

Adjusting the orientation tag

Cameras without an integrated orientation sensor create images that need to be rotated manually. With JPG images, this could always easily be done with the lossless rotation feature of PIE.

The latest PIE v5.54 and PIE Studio v4.92 also support the rotation of RAW images by adjusting their orientation tag. This is done without creating XMP files.

Some modern cameras such as the Panasonic Lumix G-Series use the orientation sensor of the image stabilizer in the lens. With PIE, you can now get oriented RAW files (eg .RW2) even if you are using a lens without image stabilizer, such as the 20mm Pancake.