copy Exif from one image to another

looking for an open source, Windows utility to copy Exif data from one
image to another.

Bucky wrote:

looking for an open source, Windows utility to copy Exif data from one
image to another.

jhead. Google it. :-)

Paul Mitchum wrote:
jhead. Google it. :-)

thanks, I'll try it out, although it is command line only. Any other
open source utility with a Windows GUI?

THO wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

Here's what I do for some digital photos:
1. use gimp to edit (do some cloning touching up)
2. save as TIFF to limit compression loss
3. open TIFF with picasa to adjust color temperature (I really like
picasa's color temperature slider)
4. save as JPEG

The Exif info is lost in step 2 when Gimp save as TIFF. So I wanted to
copy the Exif info from the original JPEG to the final JPEG.

looking for an open source, Windows utility to copy Exif data from one
image to another.

I believe you can get exiftool to work under Windows. It's a
wonderfully powerful and easy-to-use utility that lets you read and
write exif data, including copying exif data from one file to
another. (This would be useful, e.g., if you have a thumbnail image
and want to include the exif data from the full image.)

-Joel

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In article . com,
Bucky wrote:

THO wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

Here's what I do for some digital photos:
1. use gimp to edit (do some cloning touching up)
2. save as TIFF to limit compression loss
3. open TIFF with picasa to adjust color temperature (I really like
picasa's color temperature slider)
4. save as JPEG

The Exif info is lost in step 2 when Gimp save as TIFF. So I wanted to
copy the Exif info from the original JPEG to the final JPEG.

Hmmm... never having used Gimp, I can't say, but that sounds weird. If
a program I had didn't save the existing exif data whenever it saves
the file, I'd toss it and find one that does.

It would certainly make it simpler for you to [one-time] find a better
program than to [every time] have to manually copy the data over. As I
described in another thread, why don't you try using Adobe Lightroom -
you can combine ALL those steps (and more, plus file management) into
one program which THRIVES on the EXIF data, rather than discarding it.

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

Bucky wrote:
THO wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

Here's what I do for some digital photos:
1. use gimp to edit (do some cloning touching up)
2. save as TIFF to limit compression loss
3. open TIFF with picasa to adjust color temperature (I really like
picasa's color temperature slider)
4. save as JPEG

The Exif info is lost in step 2 when Gimp save as TIFF. So I wanted to
copy the Exif info from the original JPEG to the final JPEG.

Use the freebie Exifer. It will back up the exif info and then restore
it when you want.Lots of other uses,renaming by exif info,editing exif
and IPTC tags etc. I use it all the time.


http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/

Dave

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article . com,
Bucky wrote:

THO wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?
Here's what I do for some digital photos:
1. use gimp to edit (do some cloning touching up)
2. save as TIFF to limit compression loss
3. open TIFF with picasa to adjust color temperature (I really like
picasa's color temperature slider)
4. save as JPEG

The Exif info is lost in step 2 when Gimp save as TIFF. So I wanted to
copy the Exif info from the original JPEG to the final JPEG.

Hmmm... never having used Gimp, I can't say, but that sounds weird. If
a program I had didn't save the existing exif data whenever it saves
the file, I'd toss it and find one that does.

It would certainly make it simpler for you to [one-time] find a better
program than to [every time] have to manually copy the data over. As I
described in another thread, why don't you try using Adobe Lightroom -
you can combine ALL those steps (and more, plus file management) into
one program which THRIVES on the EXIF data, rather than discarding it.

[topic drift]

Ken, or any other Mac user: Can you find your photos via Spotlight
searching on the Metadata key words, or EXIF info, for that matter?

--
John McWilliams

(Spotlight is a built in find feature on OSX, which I have seldom used.)

In article , John
McWilliams wrote:

Ken Lucke wrote:
In article . com,
Bucky wrote:

THO wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?
Here's what I do for some digital photos:
1. use gimp to edit (do some cloning touching up)
2. save as TIFF to limit compression loss
3. open TIFF with picasa to adjust color temperature (I really like
picasa's color temperature slider)
4. save as JPEG

The Exif info is lost in step 2 when Gimp save as TIFF. So I wanted to
copy the Exif info from the original JPEG to the final JPEG.

Hmmm... never having used Gimp, I can't say, but that sounds weird. If
a program I had didn't save the existing exif data whenever it saves
the file, I'd toss it and find one that does.

It would certainly make it simpler for you to [one-time] find a better
program than to [every time] have to manually copy the data over. As I
described in another thread, why don't you try using Adobe Lightroom -
you can combine ALL those steps (and more, plus file management) into
one program which THRIVES on the EXIF data, rather than discarding it.

[topic drift]

Ken, or any other Mac user: Can you find your photos via Spotlight
searching on the Metadata key words, or EXIF info, for that matter?

Hmmm, never tried (I just do it in Aperture, which has much more
sophisticated search criteria).

Hang on, let me give it a shot...

Yup. Learched on "lighthouse", and all my pictures that have
"lighthouse" as a keyword showed up, even if the name of the file
didn't contain it (and getting info showed the keyword). Searched on
"digital rebel xt" and digital rebel xti"and all those photos showed
up, with the info showing it as "camera model".

So yeah, Spotlight allows searching by EXIF keyword.

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

Try a program called Exifer. You can back up your exif info to a file and
then re-apply it.

Rob-L

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