Features

Sagittarius reads and writes the XMP-IPTC and XMP-EXIF (only read yet) metadata of the following filetypes:

  • jpeg
  • tiff
  • png
  • dng


It is capable of batch editing multiple image files.

The main window shows a:

  • directory tree and a preview on the left,
  • photos of the currently selected directory in the middle, and 
  • meteadat on the right. See it here.

It shows a (live resizeable) preview of the currently selected photo, and displays (resizeable) thumbnails of the other photos of the directory. Beside the thumbnail some basic information of the picture file can be seen (name, dimensions, size and IPTC caption. On later versions, the information displayed will be user selectable from the file properties, EXIF and IPTC tags.)

It shows all the XMP-IPTC and XMP-EXIF fields of the currently selected photo.

Sagittarius does not overwrite yor original files (by default). It creates a backup copy of them. This option can be disabled in the Edit/Preferences menu.

In a separate dialog (in later versions it will be integrated to the metadata-display side panel on the right) you can edit each XMP-IPTC field of one or more photos. User can select which field to edit or leave as is.

If more than one photo is selected, and for a certain metadata field the values are different, then the text “Multiple values” will be shown for the field. The only exception is the keywords (IPTC Subject) field. In the case of the keywords, Sagittaris gathers all the keywords of the selected photos. If a keyword is common (is presented in every selected photo), it will be displayed as is. If it is not common (only a few (at least one) photo has it), it will be displayed with a * as its first character. If the user does not remove the star (or the keyword), than this keyword won’t be applied to all the selected photos.

1.0 will have...

  • EXIF support. I mean XMP-EXIF support.
  • No metadata editor dialog boxes. Metadata edit will be done in the right side metadata panel.
  • Metadata templates. User can create and apply metadata templates to batches of photos. For example, one template for copyright fields, one for creator, and so on.
  • More sophisticated keyword handling. Keywords will be saved to a tree hierarchy, from what user can select which keyword to apply to photos.
  • User selectable info fields in the thumbnail view. There will be up to 8lines of information beside each thumbnail. The user can select what information is to be displayed from all of the EXIF and IPTC fields, and file properties.
  • For all the IPTC fields that have closed vocabularies the IPTC standard vocabularies will be implemented.

For more detailed discussion, see the roadmap page.

Known bugs, limitations

One of the main bugs is that some metadata fields on the metadata panel have wrong names. For instance, the field "Copyrighted" has the name "Marked" in the metadata panel. The reason why i did not pay much attention to this is that the whole metadata panel will be redesigned in 0.2.

If you have a bug to report, or an essential feature to request you can do it here.