Questions tagged [metadata]
Metadata is additional data related to a photo, this is usually written by the camera into the image file at the time of shooting but can be edited later. This metadata includes information such as the time and date of shooting, equipment involved and settings used.
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What tagging system do you use? [closed]
What tagging system do you use for your photo collection?
I ask because tagging is the only way I can make sense of my large photo collection and I am trying to improve the effectiveness of my photo ...
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Should I tag faces in Photoshop Elements 9 if they aren't clear?
I just bought Photoshop Elements 9, and have never used it before. One of its highly touted features is face recognition/identification. According to ads, if you tell the program that a particular ...
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How can you write/convert Picasa's People tags to the EXIF data?
I use Lightroom for my workflow, and I tag photos with people's names so that I can find them faster.
Since Lightroom doesn't have the "Faces" feature, I want to use Picasa's People feature for this ...
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Printing rotated pictures
this may sound as a very stupid question so please don't laugh at me. My old digital camera (Nikon Coolpix s6) was recording the EXIF orientation tag in the JPEG file, so my picture viewer software ...
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How can I get lightroom to sync datetaken meta data with other programs
I've recently switched from Picasa to Lightroom 3.3. Upon importing my pics into lightroom, there were about 500 that appeared at the top when sorted by date, despite being older pictures. Turns out ...
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Like XMP facial tagging, is there a way to visually tag other areas of the image as non-facial... notes, other items?
I'm looking for a metadata solution. My environment is Windows.
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What is the easiest way to strip 'iPhoto Original' and 'Faces' tags from photos?
When I switched to Macs a few years ago, I started using iPhoto to manage all of my digital pictures. I then moved on to Aperture, and now I've just gotten annoyed with the single-file-library thing ...
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What tool can visualize metadata from many photos on a Mac?
I have seen/heard about a PC/Unix (??) utility that goes through all your JPG/RAW pictures on your disk and shows you on a graph
your most used lens,
your most used zoom range,
flash settings etc... ...
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ExifTool Dates and British Summer Time / Daylight Savings
From my previous question I am using the following ExifTool command to add Exif Date info to some photo.
exiftool -v "-FileModifyDate>AllDates" *
However, since we went back to GMT from BST, if I ...
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image metadata - flash mode values
the 'flash mode' is saved in the image meta-data as a number, what does every value mean in words? How can it be parsed? is their any documentation for this?
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Best way to hardcode filename into EXIF metadata
I've got a collection of photos that I need to rename, however I want to keep track of their previous filenames.
Thinking the best way to do this copy the filename into the EXIF header, possibly in ...
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Filtering by date in Lightroom
In Lightroom 3, using the metadata filter with one of the columns set to Date in hierarchical mode, I can easily narrow down the date range. I can easily get all photos from 2010, or all October 2010 ...
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How can I export EXIF metadata from Apple Aperture?
I'm trying to export the EXIF metadata from my photo archives so that I can do some analysis of which focal lengths I use the most. Aperture has a "File --> Export --> Metadata..." option, but that ...
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How can I get the shutter actuation count for Canon EOS 500D/550D?
How can I get the actual shutter actuation count for a Canon EOS 500D or 550D (Digital Rebel T1i or T2i)?
Two popular solutions for most earlier Canon cameras don't work:
I peeked at location 0x9d-...
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Ways to edit metadata of a PNG file?
How can I edit metadata of a PNG file?
Is there some free software I can use?
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Is there a software that make it possible to edit all exif values and add new paramerers?
A while ago I had the need to add cutom fields to my exif
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I found out that most of the fields are locked and that I cannot add new fields
Do you know a software that can
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What is the best metadata editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adding data to an EXIF file
What is the best metadata editor?
Edit: for (OS) Windows 7 Starter, for geolocation I'm thinking to use Picasa. But, what is the best and simple ...
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Is there a film scanner that can read the data from APS films and include it in the EXIF metadata?
I've a bunch of APS films that I'd like to scan but all the film scanners I've seen on the market today are 35mm scanners; and whilst some have little carriers to allow you to physically scan APS, ...
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Software for editing EXIF data
Can someone please recommend software that enables editing for exposure mode EXIF data?
I have tried with Picasa, but it doesn't support editing of this specific property.
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Why employ the xmp sidecar file in Lightroom?
Currently I trust the catalog file to hold all of develop settings for my files. I don't use xmp/sidecar files.
If you use them, why?
I'm searching for a reason why I should use them.
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Is there any software which will set the EXIF Dates based on the file's modification date?
I have been using Exifer for many years to re-date and re-name my photos based on the EXIF dates from the camera(s).
I have now started using some alternative camera apps available on the iPhone (...
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Fix photo timestamps?
I took a bunch of pictures, and when I loaded them onto my PC, I discovered the time on my camera was set incorrectly. Now this normally wouldn't be a problem...but I am combining pictures from ...
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How does Lightroom store data about photos?
I've seen numerous mentions of Lightroom's database, or catalog, and having to back it up. Being used to Bridge and Camera Raw, I'm accustomed to seeing sidecar .xmp files alongside my RAW files. ...
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How do I get Adobe Camera RAW to read the the in-camera settings from Nikon raw .NEF files?
I dislike the losing of camera settings when I shoot in raw (.NEF) in nikon. The colors become dimmed and the camera noise reduction is removed , so the the photos look very noisy compared with ...
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Which metadata field do I use for the photographer in Aperture?
I have a fair few photos in my Aperture library that have been taken by other photographers. I'd like to mark them with the photographer's name in a way that allows me to search easily, but I can't ...
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Are there GIMP plugins that allow one to view and edit EXIF data?
Does anyone know if there is a plugin available for the GIMP that will let you view and edit all the EXIF information associated with an image?
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What photo-sharing websites expose camera serial numbers?
What websites expose the camera body serial numbers from the original image EXIF?
Flickr is a photo sharing website that exposes lots of photo metadata (from the EXIF data) and even make it easy to ...
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Batch adjusting the date (but not the time) of photos imported into Lightroom?
I purchased a new camera during my vacation, but I managed to take a whole night worth of photos with the incorrect date. I purchased the camera July 18th, but managed to set June 18th as the date.
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Adding data to an EXIF file
What is the easiest way to add data to an EXIF file? For example if I wanted to add a copyright to my images can that be easily added to the EXIF data?
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What useful things can/can't you find out from exif tags?
I'm aware that you can find out a lot from looking at the exif tags of an image, such as camera make/model and the various settings used to take the picture, but what non-obvious things can you ...
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How much metadata do you add to your photos?
In Bridge CS5, I've been updating my photos' metadata and IPTC fields. There are a lot of fields available...How much of them do you typically fill out? I can tell I'd at least want to put in my name, ...
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Is there a way to synchronise JPEG metadata into RAW files in Lightroom?
I've shot RAW + JPEG for most of my photos, and have added quite a lot of metadata to the JPEGs using Windows Live Photo Gallery. I've mainly added keywords and people tags (thanks to the new face ...
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Is there an EXIF standard for tagging people in photographs?
There are a number of websites that let you tag people in photos, such as Facebook and now flickr, but is there an EXIF standard for tagging who is in a photo, and where they are?
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How can I better organise and file my photos?
At present I meticulously add metadata as EXIF tags to my photos using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which also lets me place them accurately on a map. The thing is I tend to leave photos in a folder ...
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