Paintshop doesn't recognize standard exif keywords or tags?

[Darryl_Gittins]

I bought Paintshop pro x3 with the hope of improving my photo experience from using Microsoft Digital Image Suite 6 and Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery. All of my 14,000 or so photos have been carefully tagged with keywords, and rated using stars. I was very disappointed to see that Paintshop pro x3 doesn't see my existing ratings or tags.

The tags and ratings even appear in Window explorer (right click the file then click properties in Windows). The metadata is in the jpg file, because the metadata is retained and appears when I copy the file to other computers. All 14000 or so of my photos use these tags, which are supported by my other photo manager programs on any computer, and yet Corel products can't see them?

Do I have to retag all 14,000 photos manually?

These are standard metadata tags that can be seen in Explorer and other programs like Picasa, so why would Corel's "Professional" photo editing program not support the metadata tags?

Tag me as very disappointed.

[GuyL]

Yes, the "Organizer" is a big dissapointment - espcially when it comes to tagging. Why they did this the way they did I'll never understand.

[LeviFiction]

First off the organizer does see your EXIF information. It knows it's there and you can even search for images using keywords that would exist in the EXIF information. However, for whatever reason they don't use the current EXIF information to assign your tags automatically. I don't know why.

So yes it's useless for tags, but just to clear up a small misconception it does read the EXIF information and you can use EXIF information to do a general search.

Although this is kind of funny because the advanced search and smart collections are based only on Corel's tagging information and not EXIF information. Making the general search both more useful than the advanced search and completely useless as you probably have the exact same information in your EXIF between loooots of files.

[GuyL]

Or you can just load your pictures folder in Windows and type the tags in the search box and presto you have all your hits. With Windows 7 built in libraries functionality it is very easy to accomplish and find things.

Corel has done a big mistep here.