How does Sony digital camera show the shooting date on the developed photos?

Adding text descriptions to photos and images has always been a must for many photographers and people who are keen on collecting and sorting photos, some for recording the shooting materials and some for later appreciation. There are not many ways to add dates to traditional film photos. Ordinary fool cameras generally have the function of automatically printing the shooting date or time, while professional cameras often have attachments dedicated to printing shooting data. In addition, users can also record auxiliary information on the printed photos or on the back.

People who are used to ordinary fool cameras and are new to digital cameras may complain that digital cameras can't add dates to photos. It's true: most digital cameras don't support adding dates directly to photos. Why?

There are two reasons: > >; & gt Quick Introduction to Digital Photo Processing

(1) Digital photos generally support Exif information format, in which parameters such as shooting date, time, aperture, shutter speed, etc. Is automatically generated by the camera. If you need to view it, you can use the picture viewing software that supports reading Exif information, which is clear at a glance.

(2) Who has seen professional photos with dates? Digital cameras, even if unprofessional, fully consider that users may take high-level photos, and don't want to destroy the artistry of the whole photo because of the date.

Digital cameras of individual brands actually provide the function of directly adding the date number to the photos taken like a fool camera, but I suggest you not to use it. Because the date words generated by the camera are too ugly, it reduces the style of the photo. Moreover, if you accidentally shoot a relatively high-level film, because the date word is big and often bloody, it is a "waste film." Isn't it too late to regret it? I once helped a friend erase the dates on digital photos with Photoshop, because she wanted to use those photos as a demonstration. & gt& gt& gt Making Dance Characters with Photoshop

So, how to add captions to the pictures taken by digital cameras?

If you want to add text description to digital photos, it is natural to start with "digital", that is, it is safer to use software and solve it through post-processing. And when dealing with it, adhere to a principle: always keep the original picture. Next, I'll introduce you to several softwares that add captions to digital photos. & gt& gt& gtPhotoshop image processing experience

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As can be seen from the name of the software PhotoCap, it is a software specially used to add subtitles to pictures: Photo+Cap (caption). This software is also recommended by many senior digital photographers. The reason is that it has comprehensive functions and can better meet the needs of most people who think that digital photos can be added with text descriptions.

This software can be regarded as preprocessing software before developing digital photos. In the setting dialog box of the software, we can set to add border, date text, signature text, signature picture, additional text and photo consultation text to the image. There are many options for each setting, so I won't repeat them here. Below I will use practical examples to illustrate how to use PhotoCap to add different types of captions to photos, and then focus on some problems that need special attention in some projects.

Basic steps:

Load photos

There is a button to load photos on the main interface of the software. After clicking, you will see a dialog box. It is somewhat similar to most picture browsers. First, select the folder where the photos to be loaded are located in the directory tree on the left, and then select the photos to be loaded in the upper right. You can press Ctrl to select one by one, or you can select them all. Then press the Add Selection to List button. Finally press OK in the lower left corner.

Determine the text to be added and set the position and style of the text.

After the photos are loaded, 1 photos in the list will be displayed in the main interface. The original image and cropping area are displayed in the upper right, and the output effect is displayed in the lower right. Click Settings at this time, and you can see the dialog box. Select settings from left to right.

Sometimes what you think you can't achieve can be achieved by combining the functions of PhotoCap. For example, I want to imitate some news magazines. At the same time, I want to add a picture copyright information column to all photos without destroying the picture structure, that is, I want to add a text area at the bottom (or left and right sides) of the photos, including date text and signature text. Specifically, the width of the upper, left and right borders is set to 0, the lower width is set to 0. 15cm, and the text size is set to 0. 10 (other combinations can also be used, and the key is to ensure that the border width is slightly larger than the text size). If it is placed on the left or right, you need to choose a straight book when setting the font.

After setting 1 picture, you can click the Set Same Settings button to apply the set style to other images in the list.

Adjust the clipping position and text position of photos one by one.

The aspect ratio of most digital cameras is different from that of 4R photos, so the output of 4R size will be truncated. The cutting area is displayed at the top of the main interface. We can drag the red border to resize the clipping area. At this time, the aspect ratio is locked, so don't worry about the wrong proportion of the output image. It should be noted that there seems to be something wrong with the position of the lower text area in Figure 6, mainly due to the error caused by the preview enlargement. In order to accurately preview the final effect to determine whether the position of the text and the black background match properly, it is necessary to adjust the preview magnification to 100%.

After adjusting one photo, click the thumbnail in the lower left corner to continue adjusting another photo. At this point, you only need to adjust the cutting position, and other settings have been applied, so you don't need to set them again. Of course, if you choose to apply manual clipping position, you can skip this step. It is difficult to ensure that the composition of the cut picture is reasonable and perfect by simply applying it.

Batch output photos

After the setting is completed, click Batch Output. In this step, you can select the output folder and whether the output image file name is prefixed to distinguish it from the original graphic file. It is suggested to add a prefix according to the output specification, such as 4R_*. *, and so on.

Precautions:

Additional text: This is a function to add comments to photos. For example, according to the actual situation, a photo can be marked with "Lijiang weather in Yunnan: sunny people: loose-leaf English netizens" and so on.

Date mode: The date is taken from the Exif information in the digital photo, so please make sure that the date and time of the digital camera are set correctly. Some old digital cameras don't prompt users to set the date and time, so the photos taken don't have this information. If some new cameras are not set, they will take pains to remind you every time they are turned on. This is really a good design. In addition, if photos are processed by some software that does not support Exif information, shooting information such as date and time will also be lost. At this time, you can double-click the Exif date on the main screen, then enter the window to modify Exif, fill in the correct date, and then press the Save button.

Location where the text is added: In the settings, the relative position is expressed in coordinates. The unit of x and y is cm, and its position is relative to the set angle. For example, your text was originally set in the lower left corner, and the relative positions were 2.00 and -3.00 respectively. In this way, the text will be 2cm from the lower left corner to the right, and your text will be displayed at a distance of 3cm from the bottom to the top. X positive numbers move to the right, negative numbers move to the left, y positive numbers move down, and negative numbers move up. In practical use, you can set a basic position, and then when adjusting each photo, you can directly drag the corresponding text to the appropriate place with the mouse according to the specific situation.

Outer frame: There are three types of outer frames: 1 is a plain frame, which only provides a monochrome frame and does not need to be designed by itself; The second is the picture frame of general entity, which needs to be designed or downloaded by itself; The third is a special shielding frame, or shielding frame, which needs to be designed or downloaded by yourself. This kind of frame can make photos feel transparent gradually. The hierarchical relationship between these three kinds of picture frames and photos is that there is a plain picture frame on the photo, a three-dimensional picture frame on the plain picture frame, and a transparent shielding frame on the three-dimensional picture frame, that is, the shielding frame will cover the picture frame, the picture frame will cover the plain picture frame, and the plain picture frame will cover the photo. As for how to design and make the latter two frameworks, you can browse the help description of the software or download it from the author's home page.

Photo output: 4R is the most commonly used print size. But in different places and different print shops, there may be subtle differences. At this point, we can adjust the specific aspect ratio of 4R size in the software to ensure that the printed photos will not leave white edges.

In addition to the above captions, PhotoCap also has basic image processing functions. Such as eliminating red eye, softening skin and removing noise. Moreover, PhotoCap has some special functions, such as helping you change the background of a photo to black and white, highlighting the main characters on the screen, or making a big photo based on an ordinary photo.