paul_d8

Thank you all, that's very helpful. Sandy - I made the changes just a couple of hours ago, so perhaps as you say I may need to wait. Ludmilla - I will follow your instructions, (which may or may not be what I did - I'm getting confused ... ) and see if that works by, say, Monday. And I thought exposure compensation was complicated! Best, Paul

Hi, I've entered Photo.net for the first time in a decade, have updated my profile, and in the process typed in a new screen name. Most of my other new details have saved. My new screen name is there on my account info page, properly saved, including after logging out and back in, but the actual name that appears on the screen is the old one. I've clicked all the save buttons I can see - is "screen name" the wrong field for the name that shows here? The other things that won't save, even on the account page, are my location and where I shoot - far less important, mind. Many thanks for any help you can give. Paul

<p>Thank you - you're right that they were read only, and I've now changed that, but it still won't apply the changes to all pics. I think it's to do with me not selecting the whole set. I have to somehow tell it which files to apply the info to. I've tried opening in thumbs and doing shift+click to select all, but I can't see a way to edit any info in the thumbs screen. I have to go back to the main screen, where I only seem to have one pic selected (well, open) at a time.</p>

<p>I have (I think!) a basic question about Irfan View.<br> What I want to do: I shoot on film, and get the negs scanned to CD. I want to take shots from these CDs and put them on a memory stick with some written info attached. So that I can look at a picture, click a tab, and see the camera, film and lens I used and the date it was shot, but also retain the date of the CD and the original file name for ease of locating the negs. The best I can think of is to transfer a whole folder (one film) from the CD to a holding folder on the stick, create IPTC info for the batch, which captures camera, film and date, and then go into individual shots if, say, I switched lenses, or want to record a person's name or other interesting fact. Then I can transfer the shots I want to keep to sub-folders (People Colour, People BW, Landscape, Dogs etc) and delete the rest.<br> What I have done: So ... I have transferred one folder (one film) from a CD to the "Holding Bay" folder on my memory stick. Then I opened shot one in Irfan View, and did Image - Information - IPTC info - Options - Edit first file only, apply text to all files, plus "append new text to old text" (the latter so I could make individual edits for each shot). Under the description tab, in "Caption (description)" I added the info that would apply to the whole lot, being camera, film and date of shooting. Then I clicked "write", which took me back to a yellow-bordered pop-up showing the image properties. I clicked "OK".<br> What happened: The image info I had just created was saved for that shot, but did not apply to any other shots. I have closed and reopened IV but this made no difference. <br> Why I'm here: Irfan's forum isn't taking new users - they're full - and the "search forum" option brings no results for IPTC or similar. I'd greatly appreciate if anyone on here could help with this? How do I get my edits to IPTC to save and apply to all images in the folder? And if there's some easier way to achieve the same broad objective of putting free text info on a group of pics, and then adding some more for individual shots, do tell ... <br> Thanks so much! And apologies if any of my IT descriptions are feeble or odd, I'm not so good with computer things.</p>