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Now you have a digiKam database that indicates the face tagging information for all your photos. Writing metadata, but without changing the photo file

Using any of the two methods above you should be able to get the face tagging out of Picasa and into digiKam. picasa.ini files and/or contacts.xml file to the digiKam database.' picasa2digikam which is ' A script to migrate Picasa metadata from its.This gist exports the face tags from Picasa to the digiKam database directly, without touching any photos.When you do a websearch for ' digikam face tag import' you'll find a few methods that relate to Picasa: You're looking to move away from Picasa to a cross-platform solution, which digiKamoffers.īelow information is pieced together from the internet, I haven't tried anything, but from the descriptions it seems it will do what you want.

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To ease the deduplication process you want to have a 'static' hash for each photo, even when you update the metadata of the photo. To copy face tags from Picasa to WPG run:Įxiftool.exe -config ExifTool_config_convert_regions '-regioninfompTo copy face tags from WPG to Picasa run following command:Įxiftool.exe -config ExifTool_config_convert_regions '-regioninfoOpen command prompt ( cmd.exe) and navigate to the place where both files are saved (use cd command). Place exiftool.exe and ExifTool_config_convert_regions in the same folder.These are version I successfully used, but you can check for more up to date releases here and here.

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Then download ExifTool and config file.First of all make backup copy of all files you intend to modify.

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jpg and many other file formats.ĮxifTool author Phil Harvey has written a little ExifTool config file that allows to copy facial tags between Picasa and Windows Photo Gallery formats. This powerful command line utility allows to view and modify image meta-data in. If you want to migrate WPG people tags to Picasa native format (or other way around) you can use ExifTool. While Picasa normally can display WPG tags, WPG will not show Picasa face tags at all. Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) and Picasa use slightly different techniques to save facial recognition tags to image meta-data. This needs to be done for every person, but if you have large number of photos it's still more efficient than editing every single photo.

If you have large number of photos, you can move all face tags to a new person and then move them back to the original person.

Save the changes ( File > Save), and then undo the edit.

If you have a small number of photos, simply make an edit to a photo ( Fill Light slider works fine).

Make sure Store name tags in photo option is enabled.

If you want to transfer existing Picasa face tags stored in internal database to image meta-data you can do following: This setting only affect images tagged from when the setting was enabled. For some reason this option is disabled by default, it can be enabled in Tools > Options > Name Tags > Store name tags in photo. Since version 3.9 Google Picasa has an option to write facial recognition tags to image meta-data.

This made it tricky to synchronise face tags between different computers and makes it very easy to loose face tags while re-installing software, moving images, etc. Google Picasa until version 3.9 was storing face tags to its own internal database and configuration files. Windows Photo Gallery ( formerly Windows Live Photo Gallery) writes facial recognition tags (people tags) directly to image file meta-data.