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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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How should I store "description" metadata for maximum consistency, visibility, and portability?

I’d be grateful for advice regarding the best way to store general free-form descriptive metadata for scanned images. … I want to maximize the likelihood that the metadata I store will be visible to everybody, both now and in the future. …
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How can I use ExifTool to prepend text to image files' descriptions?

I need to prepend text to the description fields of a bunch of jpgs. I found discussions of appending text (e.g., here and here), but not of prepending text. My destination tag is mwg:description, and …
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What metadata fields are shown in the MacOS Preview Inspector TIFF tab?

If Exif, IPTC, and XMP metadata are all present, all tabs show IPTC metadata. … If there is no IPTC metadata, but Exif metadata is present, all tabs (including the IPTC and TIFF tabs) show Exif metadata. …
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How can I change the "time taken" metadata for iPhone HEIC files?

I have some recent iPhone photos with timestamps in the wrong timezone. In Windows PowerShell, exiftool -s -a -G1 *.heic | select-string 'date|heic' | select-string -notmatch file produces this for on …
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What metadata fields are shown in the MacOS Preview Inspector TIFF tab?

If I view a jpg in the MacOS Preview app, I can use Tools>Show Inspector to bring up a More Info window. Its info tab (ⓘ) has four sub-tabs: General, Exif, IPTC, and TIFF. The General tab shows inform …
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How can put 2 jpg images side by side in a new jpg without losing metadata or image quality?

I'm looking for a way to do this with minimal loss of image quality and without losing the metadata for at least one of the images. I'm running on Windows 10. … MS Paint3D's files are even smaller, and, unlike Paint, no metadata is retained. In addition to standard Windows 10 programs, I have XnView MP, FastStone Image Viewer, and Adobe Bridge. …
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How can put 2 jpg images side by side in a new jpg without losing metadata or image quality?

ImageMagick can do this: magick front-side.jpg back-side.jpg +append result.jpg result.jpg contains a copy of the metadata from the first input file (i.e., front-side.jpg). …
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