photo-pre-process

(pthree or $p^3$)

Utility scripts to assist in renaming and generating metadata files for digital photos.

I created this utility to suit my own personal digital photography workflow. It probably won't work for you. Feel free to fork and modify to suit your needs.

Requirements

This script requires Python 3.9.

This script depends on exiftool, typer, and rich.

exiftool must be installed manually prior to using this script. Please follow the instructions here.

Installation

This utility can only be installed from source.

1. Clone this repository.
2. Navigate to the cloned repository.

cd [cloned repository directory]

3. Use pip to install the package locally.

pip install .

Usage

Invoke by running pthree.

• pthree rename to batch rename photos using EXIF date and time data.
• pthree texif to automatically generate human readable text EXIF data in different formats according to presets.
• pthree exif to automatically generate binary EXIF sidecar files.
• pthree process as a shortcut to do all three above actions at the same time.
• pthree info to decode information from renamed filenames.
• pthree yank moves or copies files to a different location.
• pthree list lists files in the specified directory.
• pthree film to generate human readable metadata for LensTagger tagged film pictures for Instagram.
  • The following EXIF tags are required to use the film command:
    • Make
    • Model
    • Lens
    • UserComment
  • UserComment must be automatically generated by LensTagger and must have two separate lines containing only text in the following format:
    • Film Make: [] (e.g. Film Make: Kodak)
    • Film Type: [] (e.g. Film Type: Portra 400)

For more information, run pthree --help.