ExifToolGui Workspaces: Build Your Own Tag Panels A photo file can hold hundreds of metadata tags, but any one job needs about a dozen. The Workspace is ExifToolGui’s answer: a definition of exactly which tags the Metadata panel shows and lets you edit. In V6.3.12, maintained by Frank Bijnen as a fork of Bogdan Hrastnik’s…
Edit Artist, Copyright and Keywords in ExifToolGui Descriptive metadata is how a photo carries its author, its rights and its subjects with it. The three workhorses are Artist (who made it), Copyright (the rights statement) and Keywords (what it shows). ExifToolGui edits all of them through its Workspace: in V6.3.12, maintained by Frank Bijnen as…
Rename Photos by Capture Date in ExifToolGui Camera file names such as IMG_4832 tell you nothing and collide between cameras. Names built from the capture date sort chronologically in any program, survive moves between folders, and make two cameras’ files interleave in true order. ExifToolGui V6.3.12, Frank Bijnen’s maintained fork of Bogdan Hrastnik’s GUI for…
Batch-Edit Metadata for a Whole Folder in ExifToolGui Editing photos one at a time does not scale past a handful of files. ExifToolGui was designed for the opposite approach: its earliest documentation already states the goal that you can select multiple files and modify them at once. In the current V6.3.12, maintained by Frank Bijnen…
Geotag Photos from a GPX Track Log in ExifToolGui A GPS track log records where a logger or phone was, second by second. If your camera was with that logger, each photo’s capture time points at one spot on the track, and the position can be copied into the photo as GPS metadata. ExifToolGui V6.3.12,…
Shift EXIF Date and Time by an Offset in ExifToolGui A camera clock that was wrong by two hours, or a timezone forgotten on a trip, leaves every timestamp wrong by exactly the same amount. Re-typing each date would destroy the real spacing between shots. The fix is a shift: move every DateTimeOriginal by one…
How to Change DateTimeOriginal in ExifToolGui DateTimeOriginal is the capture time a camera writes into a photo, and it is the field that sorting, renaming and timeline tools all trust. When it is wrong, because a camera clock was never set, a battery reset it, or a scan carries the scanning date instead, ExifToolGui lets…
ExifToolGui First Launch: Set Up ExifTool Correctly The first launch of ExifToolGui decides whether every later task feels easy or broken. ExifToolGui V6.3.12, maintained by Frank Bijnen as a fork of Bogdan Hrastnik’s original GUI, is only a front-end: all reading and writing is done by Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, a separate program the GUI must…
How to Install ExifToolGui on Windows 11 ExifToolGui is a Windows-only graphical front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, the command-line tool that reads and writes photo metadata. The version covered here is ExifToolGui V6.3.12, released on May 8, 2026 by Frank Bijnen. It is a maintained fork of the original GUI created by Bogdan Hrastnik, and…
