exif manipulating utility?
 

After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have the
wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted for
time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text description of
the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be displayed in the right
order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...) in
the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the exif
dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file dates of a
bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many photo viewer
sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can sort by exif
dates. I want to name the files and set the file time stamps so that no
matter which of the above fields are sorted, they would be displayed in the
right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif manipulations?

exif manipulating utility?
 

james wrote:
After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them
have the wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates
(not adjusted for time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are
actually text description of the location, and I want these
descriptive jpg to be displayed in the right order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone,
...) in the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1)
edit the exif dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif
dates to file dates of a bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename.
This is because many photo viewer sorts by file name, some sorts by
file dates, and a few can sort by exif dates. I want to name the
files and set the file time stamps so that no matter which of the
above fields are sorted, they would be displayed in the right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif
manipulations?

I don't know if there is any such program, one that will meet all your
challenges, but it seems to me "jhead", the command-line program might
do some of it for you.

http://softfive.com/jhead-2-90-exif-...pulation-tool/

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exif manipulating utility?
 

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:30:41 -0700, james wrote:

After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have
the wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted
for time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text
description of the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be
displayed in the right order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...)
in the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the
exif dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file
dates of a bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many
photo viewer sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can
sort by exif dates. I want to name the files and set the file time
stamps so that no matter which of the above fields are sorted, they
would be displayed in the right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif
manipulations?

Too bad you're not running Linux - 'jhead' is available for most
distributions and will do that and more. I've also seen notes that acdc
or aseedsee or whatever it's called may do a lot of what you want.

exif manipulating utility?
 

In article , james wrote:
After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have the
wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted for
time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text description of
the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be displayed in the right
order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...) in
the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the exif
dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file dates of a
bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many photo viewer
sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can sort by exif
dates. I want to name the files and set the file time stamps so that no
matter which of the above fields are sorted, they would be displayed in the
right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif manipulations?


I've used "exiftool" for some things like this. I run FreeBSD, but a
standalone Windows version is avaiable he

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

This is a command line utility and it can take a while to figure out.
Someone else has put a Windows GUI on top of it (though I have not tried it):

http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/fot...xiftoolgui.htm


Ted

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exif manipulating utility?
 

In article , james
wrote:

After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have the
wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted for
time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text description of
the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be displayed in the right
order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...) in
the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the exif
dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file dates of a
bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many photo viewer
sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can sort by exif
dates. I want to name the files and set the file time stamps so that no
matter which of the above fields are sorted, they would be displayed in the
right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif manipulations?

look no further than exiftool. it's a command line utility for
mac/win/linux and there are windows gui wrappers for it.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

also, many apps can do it, including lightroom.

exif manipulating utility?
 

"james" wrote in message
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After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have
the wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted
for time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text
description of the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be
displayed in the right order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...)
in the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the exif
dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file dates of
a bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many photo
viewer sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can sort by
exif dates. I want to name the files and set the file time stamps so that
no matter which of the above fields are sorted, they would be displayed in
the right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif manipulations?

Photo ME will allow you to change the Exif DateTime.

Bulk Rename Utility will rename the file using the exif date.

exif manipulating utility?
 

james wrote:
After a trip I collected photos from several friends. Some of them have
the wrong file time stamp. Some also have wrong exif dates (not adjusted
for time zone). Plus, I created jpg files that are actually text
description of the location, and I want these descriptive jpg to be
displayed in the right order among the photos.

In order to view these photos on various platform (windows, iphone, ...)
in the correct chronological order, I need to be able to (1) edit the
exif dates in individual jpg file and (2) bulk copy exif dates to file
dates of a bunch (3) copy exif dates into filename. This is because many
photo viewer sorts by file name, some sorts by file dates, and a few can
sort by exif dates. I want to name the files and set the file time
stamps so that no matter which of the above fields are sorted, they
would be displayed in the right order.

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif manipulations?

XnView does these things. xnview.com

-Greg.

exif manipulating utility?
 

Any suggestion on freeware for windows that can do the exif
manipulations?

XnView does these things. xnview.com

Thanks to all who contributed. I am already using xnview but other than
being about to sort by exif date, I don't see any other exif related
feature. Perhaps I need to update to the latest version and try again. Or do
I need to download a plug-in?

I want to add that ipod touch (and therefore iphone, ipad) sorts photos
using the exif date. Therefore manipulating exif dates is the only way to
control sort order for ipod touch photo albums.

Here's more details:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221

The problem that I'm facing (mixing photos from different cameras with non
synchronized time/date) should become more and more common as more people
learn to share travel photos.