Prepare Photo Metadata for Stock and Marketplace Uploads On a stock or marketplace upload, metadata is not housekeeping; it is the product description the platform reads. Keywords decide discovery, the rights fields decide what a buyer may do, and the descriptive set as a whole decides whether the file looks professional. ExifToolGui V6.3.12, Frank Bijnen’s…
Fix Dates on Scanned Photos: Set a Real Capture Date A scanned print carries the date of the scanning session, not the day the picture was taken, and some scans carry no capture date at all. Timelines then file a 1980s childhood photo under last Tuesday. ExifToolGui lets you set a real DateTimeOriginal on those…
View Camera Serial and Lens Data in Your Photos’ Metadata Buried in a photo’s EXIF and maker notes sit identifiers most owners never look at: the camera body’s serial number and the lens data recorded at capture. ExifTool reads maker notes from around thirty camera makers, and ExifToolGui V6.3.12, Frank Bijnen’s maintained fork of Bogdan…
EXIF vs IPTC vs XMP: View Every Tag in a Photo Photo metadata is not one list; it is several families stored side by side in the same file. EXIF carries the camera’s record, IPTC carries the publishing description tradition, and XMP carries Adobe-era descriptive and editing data. ExifToolGui V6.3.12, Frank Bijnen’s maintained fork of…
Strip Metadata Before Sharing or Selling Photos Online Every photo you upload carries more than the picture. Capture location, home-area coordinates from everyday shots, camera serial information and software traces all travel inside the file unless you remove them. ExifToolGui, in its current V6.3.12 maintained by Frank Bijnen as a fork of Bogdan Hrastnik’s GUI…
Remove All Metadata from a Photo (and What Gets Deleted) Sometimes the right sharing copy is a blank slate: no capture date, no camera data, no location, no software traces, nothing but the image itself. ExifTool’s documented capability includes deleting meta information individually, in groups, or altogether, and ExifToolGui V6.3.12, Frank Bijnen’s maintained fork of…
Remove GPS and Location Data from Photos A photo’s GPS tags can state where it was taken to within a few metres. That is useful in your own archive and a genuine exposure in a file you send to strangers. ExifToolGui gives you a visual way to remove that location data: the program, in its…
