Tag a folder of race photos
Not on SmugMug or Zenfolio? Add a folder of JPEGs from your computer to an event, just like a gallery. Bibbit reads the bibs, matches them to runner names, and gives you the photos back with the bib numbers and names in their keywords, or just the results as a CSV or JSON file.
Your results are saved, your photos aren't
Bibbit saves each photo's file name, bibs and runner names to the event, so you can come back to them. The photos stay on your computer: your browser sends a 1,280-pixel copy to find the bibs, then only the bib areas from the original to read them, and neither is kept.
Before you start
- 1Put one race's photos in a folder. Bibbit reads JPEGs only, so export RAW files to JPEG first.
- 2Create the event in Bibbit, or open it if it's already there. For runner names, upload a roster CSV on its Event Roster tab, with a bib column and a name column. Do it before you add the folder: names are matched as the photos are read.
- 3Check your scans: one per photo, two when the event has face grouping on. The total shows before you start.
Add the folder
- 1On the event's Galleries tab, select Add Gallery, then Folder on this computer.
- 2Choose the folder (or select the photos), check its name, and select Add and scan.
- 3Bibbit opens the folder's scan page, the same one galleries use, and starts straight away. Folder Photos shows every photo, the ones not scanned yet faded, with a progress bar. Keep working anywhere in Bibbit while it runs; just keep the browser tab open. If the tab closes, what's done is saved: the event page then offers Reconnect folder (Chrome, Edge) or Choose the folder (Safari, Firefox), which carries on with only the rest.
Review the photos
- 1Open the folder from the event's galleries and choose Review. Each photo shows zoomed in, with the bibs Bibbit read boxed: confirm them, fix a number, or add one it missed, then Save & continue. It's the same Review as a SmugMug or Zenfolio gallery.
- 2Photos show while the folder is connected: just added, reconnected, or chosen again.
Download the results
- 1Photos with keywords: on the Export & Sync tab, with the folder connected, select Download photos with keywords. You get a zip of copies of your photos with the bibs and names written into their IPTC keywords, and an .xmp file beside each. As with a gallery sync, a photo gets keywords once it's reviewed; Mark all reviewed does the lot. Nothing is scanned or charged again.
- 2Results as CSV or JSON: each file's name, bibs and names, for your own tools.
- 3Both stay on the gallery's Export & Sync tab for as long as the event exists.
Faces
When the event has face grouping on, the faces in the folder's photos are measured and grouped like a gallery's, so a photo where the bib is hidden can still be tagged with the runner, which you confirm in Review. The measurements are kept with the folder gallery and deleted with it; the photos never are.
Letting runners find their photos
Keywords only help runners if they can search them. Wherever you upload the photos, turn on that site's keyword or photo search so a bib number finds the photo.