CNET Editors' review
This simple application adds basic information to photos. Double-clicking the downloaded file launches the Photo Dater application itself, not an installer. You can annotate one file, entire folders, or selected multiple files, adding the file's date or your own customizable one. The option to specify your own date lets you stamp multiple files with any short text; the program doesn't enforce a date style. You can pick the color, font, and size of the stamp text. The program offers the choice of putting the stamp in the top left, top right, bottom left, or bottom right, or at the XY coordinates you choose. Though you don't get a preview of the stamped file, the program saves the stamped file as filename-dated without changing the original. Anyone who needs to batch-stamp images could find Photo Dater useful.Publisher's Description
From Jason Specht:
Photo Dater is the ultimate program for placing date/time stamps on your photos. It works with bitmaps (BMPs), JPEGs, and GIFs. You can customize nearly everything about the stamp, specifying your own format, position, size, color, and font. You can date a single file at a time, multiple files, or an entire folder.
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3.7 starsout of 13 votes
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3.7 starsout of 13 votes
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"Trash software"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
none that I can see or use
Cons
A. Why can't I just download a simple file and install it myself. I'm not an idiot. Why is there all this useless "downloader" added stuff that is completely uneeded and I consider malicious because it tries to change my browser settings, and hosed and crashed chrome with several tabs open.
B. Tried to change many settings in my browser.
C. Software converted a 768Kb file to a 159Kb file with a date stamp and degraded the quality of the picture.
D. Software doesn't display the file I picked, the field was just black.Summary
Make sure you have a backup of the picture files you want to date stamp, and be ready for the stamped files to be of significantly lower quality than the originals. Read the installation dialog closely, or your default search engine, your home page, and other browser settings will be changed. Cnet thinks you are an idiot and unable to manage and install a download on your own. Or better yet, fond something else to do this-and don't waste your time with this package.
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"No use of this software"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
Free software.
Cons
The objective of using date stamp is to have the date picture is taken. However this software puts the date of the file but not the picture is taken. Should allow the user to pick datetime or Date only and preview option before rastering on the image.
Summary
The software is considered as a entry level CS(computer Science) semester project. I am sure author can implement these features easily which makes the software more sense. The effort the author put on is appreciated.
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"Only does date statmp, not date & time"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
Works really fast, puts the date on just where you want it, or you can default to specific location / font / color.
Cons
Won't do time stamps
Summary
Love the program, super simple to use. Just wish it would really do a date/time stamp like I thought it was supposed to do. if you only want a date stamp program, this program is what you need. I ran it on a Windows 7 64 bit version just fine. No installation needed, it's a stand alone program.
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"Free Is Good"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
was able to put date stamp on images quite easily
Cons
when I used lower right is seemed to be off image, but when I used top left it was right on. At first font was to small to read and had to increase quite a bit to get a decent size
Summary
Tried different products, but this was the easiest to use, and free is good
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"It works but not the way I want it."
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
Small and easy to use. It does put the time stamp in any position, any colour and font of your choice.
Cons
It put the date of file is created and not the picture was taken date.
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"It works but has issues"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
It puts the date stamp on the photo in any position you want it.
Cons
It uses the Creation Date of the file instead of the Date Taken of the picture. If you run this program on the original jpegs directly from the camera, those two dates are the same, but if you run this program on the jpegs after editing, the date changes to the date you saved the edited image.
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"Exactly what I've been looking for!"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
This software does what it says almost too easily! I have been looking for weeks to find a program that will add dates to an entire folder. I have downloaded and tried many different programs, but none work as well and as simply as this one.
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"short and sweet, but..."
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
simeple, no installation, gets the job done
Cons
No ability to recursively walk down a directory tree to stamp all photos, without which I can't use it.
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"Sweet and Simple"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
This is a sweet program for dating or if you just want to add a name as a watermark.
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"free tool for adding date on photo"
Version: Photo Dater 1.2
Pros
Simplicity, freeware.
Cons
Recompression of jpeg file, absolute font size, absolute position of text.




