When you start the tool for the first time new source is created, and you can start setting it up and adding more sources. PhotoMixer employs tabbed user interface where the first tab contains output settings and log. PhotoMixer also offers some useful tools for related tasks. That is the source whose dates will not be modified and all other sources will be shifted in regard to date differences between their reference photo and that of the main source. When using reference photo synchronization one of the sources must be designated as main reference source. Only when, for some reason, EXIF is not present, file system date is used instead. Photo date and time is taken from embedded EXIF metadata that's generated by digital camera and inserted in JPEG file.
These reference photos are then used by PhotoMixer to synchronize the sources.Įach source can be synchronized using reference photo or just by explicit time shift. Where's the catch? Well, there should be one photo that each of these people took at nearly the same time. As the result, you now have a folder with all the photos from your trip in the right order even though they originally came from ten people with all of them having wrong date & time setting in their cameras. The most important this is: it can adjust date & time of photos from each source automatically. PhotoMixer takes all the photos from all sources and puts them all in one output folder with file names that contain timestamps (so that the files appear in the same order regardless if you sort them by name, type, or date). Most often, it's from a different person and/or taken with different camera. Photo source is a folder with photos that have different properties than some other source. PhotoMixer takes photo sources as input and mixes/sorts them. Please report any bugs and problems you encounter. Tool for sorting photos from different sources by date. And finally, beta release of PhotoMixer is available. This year, I added GUI (where all the settings can be adjusted), some more date & time functions, and basically made the whole thing usable. File system dates can also be lost on their way to you (FTP upload etc.).īeing a programmer, rather that searching for some program on the Internet, I wrote my own quick and dirty command line tool for this task (mostly hard-coded paths etc.) in mid 2010. Throwing them all in one folder and setting file ordering by date might help but everyone's camera can have a different internal time. Now you have several directories with hordes of oddly named photos and you just want see all of them in the order they were taken. Everyone had a digital camera and made thousands of photos. Let's say you have just spent few weeks in some exotic country with a bunch of friends.
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