How do you stamp date photos on the M580 easyshare camera

Are you sure? Where are you seeing the date? As far as I'm aware, the M530 can't stamp the date on the pics. It can show the date when reviewing pics, and just about any photo printing program can print the date along with the photo, but the camera won't hide anything behind the date.

You can try TimeToPhoto software to put date/time stamps on your photos:
http://avpsoft.com/products/timetophoto/

The date and time (and a lot more) are stored with every picture in its EXIF metadata. Any photo viewing/editing program should be able to display this data. To print this data, please consult the documentation for whatever program you're using to print your pictures. Depending on the program and printer you may print the date on the image, in the margins, or on the back.

Unfortunately your camera does not have the feature to have the date stamp visible on the pictures. It does, however, save the date and time information on every photo in EXIF data. Every photo taken with this camera (and most all digital cameras) contain hidden EXIF data containing the exact date and time the photo was taken as well as other information such as aperture, shutter speed, flash mode, etc. To view this data you can look at the properties of the photo using a photo program or even windows.

I've checked in the manual and I don't think this camera has a date stamp feature on it. Other than that you can put the date on the image on your computer using a photo editing program like Photoshop. Hope this helps!

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photos are our archives of memories but sometime we do forget the taken date of an image. Sometime we feel a need of exact date and time the image was taken. The available meta data of an image not always give us good result and we need to be somewhat techie to understand that. So, to keep thing simple it will be great idea to put a date-time stamp on it.

photo date-stamp helps you here. It allows you to put date-time stamp in an image as well as a batch of images. You can choose color, font and font size to style the time stamp. It also allows you to chose the stamp position such as Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left and Bottom Right.....

thanks.

1. Press the Menu button.
2. If your camera displays a menu with tabs at the top:
a) Press the Right/Left buttons to highlight the Setup tab.
b) Press the Down button to highlight Date Stamp.
c) Press the OK button to add the date stamp to new pictures.
3. If your camera does not display a tabbed menu:
a) Press the Down button to highlight Date Stamp. NOTE: Depending on your model, Date Stamp might be within the Setup choice.
b) Press the OK button to add the Date Stamp to new pictures.

In any mode, press the MENU button. Use up/down to highlight Setup (three horizontal sliders) and press the OK button. Use up/down to highlight "Date Stamp" and press OK. Make your choice and press OK. The date stamp will only appear on photos taken in the auto mode.

Sorry, but cropping or using a photo editor is the only way once the date stamp is on the picture.

What you have to do is click the menu button right of the review pics button. Then click the joystick right then down until its on date stamp option. Click it and then then click the off option. And voila the date stamp is off :-)