I sometimes use my camera's monochrome or B&W setting. Is there a way to find those images in my library? When I think of it I add a keyword but for those cases where I didn't is there a way to set up a filter to capture those?
Thank you.
Look at the EXIF data for one of the camera B&W images and see if any of the entries are unique for when the camera shoots in this mode. If so you should be ale to create a smart filter that looks for that field.
unfortunately I can't find anything in EXIF, File or Photo Info that seems to distinguish a monochrome image. I guess I will have to be more diligent about tagging at import time.
Have you checked the EXIF tag "Colormodel"?
When I am browsing grayscale jpegs in Aperture, the "Colormodel" EXIF tag will show "Gray" and "RGB" for the color jpegs. But I do not know, what your cameras's monochrome mode will do.
Interesting for my Canon 40d the color space and model is RGB in both cases which actually makes sense, at least for the 40d.
What camera are you using when you see this?
I can't seem to figure out how to display the Color Model EXIF tag, but when I filter on it I only get images if I enter RGB (ie if I select Color Model Stars with G nothing shows up).
If you click the "baggage label" icon in the toolstrip (for Browser and Viewer Metadata label overlays) you can customize the displayed tags fpr Bowser and Viewer.
Select "Edit" and in the panel, that will appear, select, where you want to display the metadata, in Browser, Viewer, or list view. And select if for Basic View or expanded view.
In the panel, that will appear, select the tags that you want o be displayed, and to the right, drag them into to order you want.
Michel Corbin wrote:
I can't seem to figure out how to display the Color Model EXIF tag, but when I filter on it I only get images if I enter RGB (ie if I select Color Model Stars with G nothing shows up).
Right you can filter on all the EXIF data even if a particular field is not being displayed.
Most likely your camera is doing what my 40d is doing and reporting the actual color space and mode used for the image.
My Canon has a setting Picture Style which is set to Monochrome when shooting B&W
but unfortunately Aperture dose not include this EXIF field when it reads the data for this camera.
Most digital cameras as well as programs like Aperture create B&W by desaturating the image (basically). The color space is still sRGB (or what ever color space you are using). As a matter of fact Aperture is only designed to work with sRGB images, true gray scale images do not work well in Aperture.
So the actual color model and mode when shooting B&W is still color.
BTW what camera are you shooting with? Also keep in mind that all of this just applies to JPG images. Raw images are always full color regardless of what the camera settings are.
regards
Thank you Frank. I am using an Olympus OM-D EM-5. When I shoot monochrome I have my camera set to capture RAW+Jpg. The RAW image is in colour, but the jpg is B&W. It looks like the solution for me is to be more diligent at import and apply the B&W keyword at that moment.
With the EM-5, it stores the information in a 'Picture Style' tag. For B&W the stye is 'Monotone'. If you open the file in Preview and show the inspector, you will see it has a 'Picture Style' tab with Monotone listed as the style.
I was pretty hopeful I'd be able to pickup the style in Aperture, but having displayed all the EXIF and other meta data, picture style isn't there, at it isn't in any other fields either.
What I did notice, is the combined image settings such as Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness may give you a 'unique signature' (for a picture style), unless you played with the monotone style settings.
Andy
With the EM-5, it stores the information in a 'Picture Style' tag. For B&W the stye is 'Monotone'.
Yes this is the same as the 40d, see my post above. But as I noted in that post
but unfortunately Aperture dose not include this EXIF field when it reads the data for the camera.
Aperture's grasp of the EXIF data included in a digital image has always been minimal. This doesn't look like it will change anytime soon.
Finding in camera B&W (monochrome) jpgs
