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Capture One Express: Straightforward, Powerful, and Free
What is Capture One Express? Simply put, it’s a totally free and simplified version of the Capture One editing software that still offers the same superior raw handling ability as the Pro version.
There are more versions of Capture One than many people realize, including Capture One Pro, brand-specific versions for Sony and Fujifilm, and Capture One Studio. Since the release of Capture One version 8, users have had the option to either purchase Capture One outright or use a subscription model, but Capture One Express can be used without limitation for as long as you like, no purchase required.
*If you don’t have Capture One, this is the perfect time to try it, and you can click here for a 30-day full trial of Capture One Pro or click here to download for Capture One Express for free so you can follow along.
How Is It Different?
There are currently two variants of Capture One Express, and thanks to mutual cooperation between Capture One and the manufacturers, there is one for Sony and one for Fujifilm. Each version will be able to read and display images from other camera brands, but will be able to edit only those from the respective brands, but that includes their latest models, like the Sony a6400 and Fujifilm X-T30.
While any version of Capture One offers a veritable cornucopia of benefits over other post-processing software, it is how it works with raw files that is chief among them, and that includes how it renders and how the basic processing tools work.
While Capture One Express has a scaled-down toolset, how they function, their power, its color accuracy, and all the rest remain true to the full-fledged version. So, while it may have limitations, it still provides industry-leading raw processing, flexible photo management, essential adjustment tools, and fast performance in one integrated package. (Click sample edits below to enlarge)
Capture One Express Breakdown at a Glance
Organization
Photos in Express and managed through a catalog system, which is a way of storing images using a database to track the location of image files and track image adjustments and metadata. Users can import photos into a Capture One Catalog with tools for organizing and searching your photo library, or images can be left in their current location (such as on an external drive) and referenced there.
A powerful feature of Capture One is the ability to use "Sessions," which is a unique and extremely capable and flexible way of organizing images, and that is reserved for the full versions.
Sharing
The export process of Capture One Express is both powerful and easy. Express lets you configure your images for social media, printing or sharing with friends, family, and clients, while Capture One's RAW processing ensures images retain optimal image quality.
Styles
“Apply Capture One Styles for instant creative inspiration and impact — with little fuss.” Capture One Styles are made by professional photographers and reflect a variety of aesthetic visions, including looks that pros like Pratik Naik are known for. You can see the full list of styles here, and it's worth noting there are major discounts to be had on Styles at this time.
Fujifilm Film simulations
Fujifilm users will have the best experience with their X-Trans files inside of Capture One. Developed in tandem with Fujifilm, Capture One offers the in-camera Film Simulations you have available in your camera, such as Classic Chrome, Acros, and Provia.
What Are Some Features That Can Only Be Found in Paid Versions of Capture One?
Here are some:
- Luma curves and luminosity masks
- Advanced Color Editor and Skin Tone tools
- Sessions
- Local adjustments
- Focus Mask
- Keystone
- Film Grain
- Tethering
- Color Balance Tool
- More customizable
Are you going to want these features? Of course, but you can get amazing images and learn to navigate and understand Capture One with Express when you are starting.
Who Is Capture One Express For?
There’s a case to be made that it’s for everyone, and while that’s a bit of an oversimplification, it’s absolutely worth trying if you currently shoot Sony or Fuji. Even with its scaled-down toolset, you are still getting Capture One’s gold-standard raw processing and a streamlined workflow at no cost. In fact, if you are looking for the best rendering of your Sony or Fuji raw files to see what your cameras can really do, this is a good place to start, even more so if you are contemplating switching to Capture One.
Of course, Capture One Pro has a full 30-day trial and I encourage everyone to use that, but the simplified user interface of Express and the "Q" tool tab, which provides most tools you’ll need, has its benefits. The focus on the core basics makes Express a perfect training ground to become familiar and fluent in Capture One without being distracted by all the Pro features which can be learned after. Give it a try, and it may be just what you’ve been looking for.
Check back here often, as we will continue to share Capture One content every week. In the meantime, you can learn more in the Capture One Learning Hub, and you can download the latest version of Capture One here.
How to Install Capture One Express?
Click here and hit any of the "Download" buttons on the page. You will specify which version of Capture One you are activating when you open the file.
To make it even easier to download and install Capture One Express, see the graphic below for the process and dialogue screens:
If you're looking for a quick and effective way to learn all the nuances of Capture One, check out The Complete Capture One Editing Guide.
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
Read, Write and Edit Meta Information!
Also available --> Utility to fix Nikon NEF images corrupted by Nikon software
ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, Lyrics3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
ExifTool is also available as a stand-alone Windows executable and a MacOS package: (Note that these versions contain the executable only, and do not include the HTML documentation or other files of the full distribution above.)
The stand-alone Windows executable does not require Perl. Just download and un-zip the archive then double-click on "" to read the application documentation, drag-and-drop files and folders to view meta information, or rename to "" for command-line use. Runs on all versions of Windows.
(Note: Oliver Betz provides an alternate ExifTool Windows installer that avoids some problems of the self-extracting archive version above. Please post here if you have any problems/comments with this version.)
The MacOS package installs the ExifTool command-line application and libraries in /usr/local/bin. After installing, type "" in a Terminal window to run exiftool and read the application documentation.
Read the installation instructions for help installing ExifTool on Windows, MacOS and Unix systems.
Features
- Powerful, fast, flexible and customizable
- Supports a large number of different file formats
- Reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, ID3, Lyrics3 and more...
- Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP and more...
- Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
- Reads timed metadata (eg. GPS track) from MOV/MP4/M2TS/AVI videos
- Numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON)
- Multi-lingual output (cs, de, en, en-ca, en-gb, es, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, tr, zh-cn or zh-tw)
- Geotags images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction!)
- Generates track logs from geotagged images
- Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
- Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
- Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
- Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
- Reads/writes structured XMP information
- Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
- Sets the file modification date (and creation date in Mac and Windows) from EXIF information
- Supports alternate language tags in XMP, PNG, ID3, Font, QuickTime, ICC Profile, MIE and MXF information
- Processes entire directory trees
- Creates text output file for each image file
- Creates binary-format metadata-only (MIE, EXV) files for metadata backup
- Automatically backs up original image when writing
- Organizes output into groups
- Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
- Ability to add custom user-defined tags
- Support for MWG (Metadata Working Group) recommendations
- Recognizes thousands of different tags
- Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
- Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs
A Note to Unix Power-Users
If you find the need to use "find" or "awk" in conjunction with ExifTool, then you probably haven't discovered the full power of ExifTool. Read about the , , and options in the application documentation. (This is common mistake number 3.)
What People are Saying about ExifTool
"In my experience, nothing but nothing is as complete, powerful, and flexible as Phil Harvey's exiftool ... I've never seen anything that's in the same ballpark for power." - dpreview forum
"While there are a lot of image tools available, nothing comes close for accessing/updating the metadata like ExifTool" - merg's blog
"Fast, reliable and amazingly comprehensive ..." - CPAN ratings
"... the one piece of free software that gets the most detailed exif data of /any/ tool I've found." - gnome mail archives
"ExifTool makes every other EXIF reader (and writer) than I've seen, including the camera manufacturers' readers, look lame." - photo.net Nikon forum
"Insanely great tool with a long learning curve ..." - Adobe Forums
"ExifTool has been outstanding in our custom used Tesla image gallery build. We are able to aggregate image meta from our user base and incorporate this into development iterations to continually optimize our platform..." - Find My Electric
"... it's super awesome, it's super reliable and after many years of development it's still being updated!" - P_W999 blog
"... it is the mother of all EXIF utilities; the BFG of meta-data extraction; the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster of EXIF tools ... This thing will suck the last bit of metadata out of whatever image file you throw at it!" - Open Photography Forums
"... it is total fucking gibberish to me." - Reddit Linux Questions
Supported File Types
ExifTool can Read, Write and/or Create files in the following formats. Also listed are the support levels for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC_Profile and other metadata types for each file format.
1 Block write only, 2 Block create only, 3 Non-standard format, 4 Only writable for PostScript-format file type, 5 Only writable for PDF-format file type, 6 Only writable when ignoring minor errors due to Phocus incompatibility
File Type Support Description EXIF IPTC XMP ICC1 Other 3FR R Hasselblad RAW (TIFF-based) R R R R - 3G2, 3GP2 R/W 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 a/v (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime 3GP, 3GPP R/W 3rd Gen. Partnership Project a/v (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime A R Unix static library code Archive - - - - R EXE AA R Audible Audiobook - - - - R Audible AAE R Apple edit information (XML PLIST-based) - - - - R PLIST AAX R/W Audible Enhanced Audiobook (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime ACR R American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA (DICOM-like) - - - - R DICOM AFM, ACFM, AMFM R Adobe [Composite/Multiple Master] Font Metrics - - - - R Font AI, AIT R/W Adobe Illustrator [Template] (PS or PDF) R/W/C4 R/W/C4 R/W/C5 R/W/C4 R/W/C PDFPostScript, R Photoshop AIFF, AIF, AIFC R Audio Interchange File Format [Compressed] - - - - R AIFFID3Lyrics3 APE R Monkey's Audio - - - - R APEID3Lyrics3 ARQ R/W Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift RAW (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W SonySonyIDC ARW R/W Sony Alpha RAW (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W SonySonyIDC ASF R Microsoft Advanced Systems Format - - R - R ASF AVI R Audio Video Interleaved (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF AVIF R/W AV1 Image File Format (QuickTime-based) R/W/C - R/W/C R/W R/W QuickTime BMP, DIB R Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap - - - - R BMP BPG R Better Portable Graphics R - R R R BPG BTF R BigTIFF (64-bit Tagged Image File Format) R R R R - CHM R Microsoft Compiled HTML format - - - - R EXE COS R Capture One Settings (XML-based) - - - - R XML CR2 R/W Canon RAW 2 (TIFF-based) (CR2 spec) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Canon, R/W/C CanonVRD2 CR3 R/W Canon RAW 3 (QuickTime-based) (CR3 spec) R/W/C - R/W/C - R/W CanonQuickTime, R/W/C CanonVRD2 CRM R/W Canon RAW Movie (QuickTime-based) R/W/C - R/W/C - R/W CanonQuickTime CRW, CIFF R/W Canon RAW Camera Image File Format (CRW spec) - - R/W/C - R/W CanonRaw, R/W/C CanonVRD2 CS1 R/W Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW (PSD-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R Photoshop CSV R Comma-Separated Values - - - - R Text CZI R Zeiss Integrated Software RAW (ZISRAW) - - - - R ZISRAW, R XML DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM R DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine - - - - R DICOM DCP R/W DNG Camera Profile (DNG-like) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - DCR R Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) R R R R - DFONT R Macintosh Data Fork Font - - - - R Font DIVX R DivX media format (ASF-based) - - R - R ASF DJVU, DJV R DjVu image (AIFF-like) - - R - R DJVU DNG R/W Digital Negative (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - DOC, DOT R Microsoft Word Document/Template (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix DOCX, DOCM R Office Open XML Document [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP DOTX, DOTM R Office Open XML Document Template [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP DPX R Digital Picture Exchange - - - - R DPX DR4 R/W/C2 Canon DPP version 4 Recipe - - - - R/W/C CanonVRD2 DSS, DS2 R Digital Speech Standard [2] - - - - R Olympus DYLIB R MacOS Mach-O executable and library files - - - - R EXE DV R Digital Video - - - - R DV DVB R/W Digital Video Broadcasting (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime DVR-MS R Microsoft Digital Video Recording (ASF-based) - - R - R ASF EIP R Capture One Enhanced Image Package (ZIP-based) R - - - R XML ZIP EPS, EPSF, PS R/W [Encapsulated] PostScript Format R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C PostScript, R Photoshop EPUB R Electronic Publication (ZIP/XML-based) - - - - R XML ZIP ERF R/W Epson RAW Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Olympus EXE, DLL R DOS/Windows executable and library files - - - - R EXE EXIF R/W/C Exchangeable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based) R/W/C - - - - EXR R Open EXR (Extended Range) - - - - R OpenEXR EXV R/W/C Exiv2 metadata file (JPEG-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C Supported JPEG Meta Information F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V R/W Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime FFF R/W6 Hasselblad Flexible File Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - FFF R FLIR Systems thermal image File Format - - - - R FLIR FITS R Flexible Image Transport System - - - - R FITS FLA R Macromedia/Adobe Flash project (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix FLAC R Free Lossless Audio Codec - - - - R FLACID3Lyrics3 FLIF R/W Free Lossless Image Format R/W/C - R/W/C R/W/C R FLIF FLV R Flash Video - - R - R Flash FPF R FLIR Public image Format - - - - R FLIR FPX R FlashPix image - - R R R FlashPix GIF R/W Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format - - R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C GIF GPR R/W GoPro RAW (DNG-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - GZ, GZIP R GNU ZIP compressed archive - - - - R ZIP HDP, WDP, JXR R/W Windows HD Photo / Media Photo / JPEG XR (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - HDR R Radiance RGBE High Dynamic-Range - - - - R Radiance HEIC, HEIF, HIF R/W High Efficiency Image Format (QuickTime-based) R/W/C - R/W/C R/W R/W QuickTime HTML, HTM, XHTML R [Extensible] HyperText Markup Language - - - - R HTML ICC, ICM R/W/C1 International Color Consortium color profile - - - R/W/C - ICS, ICAL R iCalendar Schedule - - - - R VCalendar IDML R Adobe InDesign Markup Language (ZIP/XML-based) - - - - R XML ZIP IIQ R/W Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W PhaseOne IND, INDD, INDT R/W Adobe InDesign Document/Template - - R/W/C - - INSP R/W Insta360 Picture (JPEG-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C Supported JPEG Meta Information INSV R Insta360 Video (QuickTime-based) - - R - R QuickTime INX R Adobe InDesign Interchange (XML-based) - - R - - ISO R ISO 9660 disk image - - - - R ISO ITC R iTunes Cover Flow artwork - - - - R ITC J2C, J2K, JPC R JPEG 2000 codestream R3 R3 R R R Jpeg2000Photoshop3 JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX R/W JPEG 2000 image [Compound/Extended] R/W/C3 R/W/C3 R/W/C R R/W/C Jpeg2000, R Photoshop3 JPEG, JPG, JPE R/W Joint Photographic Experts Group image R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C Supported JPEG Meta Information JSON R JavaScript Object Notation - - - - R JSON K25 R Kodak DC25 RAW (TIFF-based) R R R R - KDC R Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) R R R R R Kodak KEY, KTH R Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme - - - - R XMLZIP LA R Lossless Audio (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF LFP, LFR R Lytro Light Field Picture - - - - R Lytro LNK R Microsoft Shell Link (Windows shortcut) - - - - R LNK LRV R/W Low-Resolution Video (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS R MPEG-2 Transport Stream (used for AVCHD video) - - - - R M2TSH264 M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V R/W MPEG-4 Audio/Video (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime MAX R 3D Studio MAX (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix MEF R/W Mamiya (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C - MIE R/W/C Meta Information Encapsulation (MIE specification) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C MIE MIFF, MIF R Magick Image File Format R R R R R MIFFPhotoshop MKA, MKV, MKS R Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle - - - - R Matroska MOBI, AZW, AZW3 R Mobipocket electronic book (Palm-based) - - - - R PalmMOBI MODD R Sony Picture Motion metadata (XML PLIST-based) - - - - R PLIST MOI R MOD Information file - - - - R MOI MOS R/W Creo Leaf Mosaic (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R Leaf MOV, QT R/W Apple QuickTime Movie R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime MP3 R MPEG-1 layer 3 audio - - - - R MPEGID3Lyrics3APE MP4 R/W Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 (QuickTime-based) R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime MPC R Musepack Audio - - - - R MPCID3Lyrics3APE MPEG, MPG, M2V R Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2 - - - - R MPEGID3Lyrics3 MPO R/W Extended Multi-Picture format (JPEG with MPF extensions) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C Supported JPEG Meta Information MQV R/W Sony Mobile QuickTime Video R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime MRW R/W Minolta RAW R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W MinoltaRawMinolta MXF R Material Exchange Format - - - - R MXF NEF R/W Nikon (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W NikonNikonCapture NMBTEMPLATE R Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template - - - - R XMLZIP NRW R/W Nikon RAW (2) (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W NikonNikonCapture NUMBERS R Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet - - - - R XMLZIP O R Unix compiled code Object - - - - R EXE ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG,
ODI, ODP, ODS, ODTR Open Document Database/Chart/Formula/Graphics/
Image/Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text (ZIP/XML-based)- - - - R XML ZIP OFR R OptimFROG audio (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF OGG, OGV R Ogg bitstream container - - - - R FLACID3Lyrics3TheoraVorbis OPUS R Ogg Opus audio - - - - R FLACID3Lyrics3OpusVorbis ORF R/W Olympus RAW Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Olympus OTF R Open Type Font - - - - R Font PAC R Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF PAGES R Apple iWork '09 Pages document - - - - R XMLZIP PCD R Kodak Photo CD Image Pac - - - - R PhotoCD PCX R PC Paintbrush - - - - R PCX PDB, PRC R Palm Database - - - - R Palm R/W Adobe Portable Document Format R3 R3 R/W/C R3 R/W/C PDF, R Photoshop PEF R/W Pentax (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Pentax PFA, PFB R PostScript Font ASCII/Binary - - - - R Font PFM R Printer Font Metrics - - - - R Font PGF R Progressive Graphics File - - - - R PGFPNG PICT, PCT R Apple Picture file - - - R R PICTPhotoshop PLIST R Apple Property List (binary and XML formats) - - - - R PLIST PMP R Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image - - - - R Sony PNG, JNG, MNG R/W Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics R/W/C3 R/W/C3 R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C PNG PPM, PBM, PGM R/W Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map - - - - R PPM, R/W/C Comment PPT, PPS, POT R PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix POTX, POTM R Office Open XML Presentation Template [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP PPAX, PPAM R Office Open XML Presentation Addin [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP PPSX, PPSM R Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP PPTX, PPTM R Office Open XML Presentation [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP PSD, PSB, PSDT R/W PhotoShop Document / Large Document / Template R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R Photoshop PSP, PSPIMAGE R Paint Shop Pro R - - - R PSP QTIF, QTI, QIF R/W QuickTime Image File R/W3 R/W3 R/W/C - R/W/C QuickTime R3D R Redcode RAW video - - - - R Red RA R Real Audio - - - - R RealID3Lyrics3 RAF R/W FujiFilm RAW Format R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W FujiFilm RAM, RPM R Real Audio/Plug-in Metafile - - - - R Real RAR R RAR Archive - - - - R ZIP RAW R Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW - - - - R KyoceraRaw RAW R/W Panasonic RAW (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W PanasonicRawPanasonic RIFF, RIF R Resource Interchange File Format R3 - R - R RIFF RM, RV, RMVB R Real Media/Video [Variable Bitrate] - - - - R Real RSRC R Mac OS Resource - - - - R RSRCPhotoshopPostScriptFont RTF R Rich Text Format - - - - R RTF RW2 R/W Panasonic RAW 2 (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W PanasonicRawPanasonic RWL R/W Leica RAW (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W PanasonicRawPanasonic RWZ R Rawzor compressed image R R R R R Rawzor SEQ R FLIR Systems image Sequence - - - - R FLIR SKETCH R Sketch design file - - - - R JSONZIP SO R Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files - - - - R EXE SR2 R/W Sony RAW 2 (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Sony SRF R Sony RAW Format (TIFF-based) R R R R R Sony SRW R/W Samsung RAW format (TIFF-based) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Samsung SVG R Scalable Vector Graphics (XML-based) - - - - R SVG SWF R Shockwave Flash - - R - R Flash THM R/W Thumbnail image (JPEG) R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C Supported JPEG Meta Information THMX R Office Open XML Theme - - - - R XMLZIP TIFF, TIF R/W Tagged Image File Format R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C GeoTIFF1, R/W Trailers TTF, TTC R True Type Font/Collection - - - - R Font TORRENT R BitTorrent description file - - - - R Torrent TXT R Text files - - - - R Text VCF, VCARD R Virtual Card - - - - R VCard VOB R Video Object (MPEG-based) - - - - R MPEG VRD R/W/C2 Canon DPP Recipe Data - - R/W/C - R/W/C CanonVRD2 VSD R Microsoft Visio Drawing (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix WAV R Windows digital audio WAVeform (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF WEBM R Google Web Movie (Matroska-based) - - - - R Matroska WEBP R Google Web Picture (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF WMA, WMV R Windows Media Audio/Video (ASF-based) - - R - R ASF WTV R Windows recorded TV show - - - - R WTV WV R WavePack lossless audio (RIFF-based) R3 - R - R RIFF X3F R/W Sigma/Foveon RAW R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W/C R/W Sigma, R SigmaRaw XCF R GIMP native image format R R R R R GIMP XLS, XLT R Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template (FPX-like) - - R R R FlashPix XLSX, XLSM, XLSB R Office Open XML Spreadsheet [Macro-enabled/Binary] - - - - R XMLZIP XLTX, XLTM R Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template [Macro-enabled] - - - - R XMLZIP XMP R/W/C Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file - - R/W/C - - ZIP R ZIP archive - - - - R ZIP
Supported JPEG Meta Information
ExifTool can Read, Write and/or Create the following types of meta information in JPEG images:
1 All trailers except Samsung, Insta360, PreviewImage and EmbeddedVideo also have R/W support in TIFF images.
JPEG Meta Information Support Description APP0 - JFIF R/W/C JPEG File Interchange Format APP0 - JFXX R Extended JFIF APP0 - CIFF R/W Camera Image File Format (used by some Canon models) APP0 - AVI1 R JPEG AVI information APP0 - Ocad R Photobucket Ocad segment APP1 - EXIF R/W/C Exchangeable Image File Format (multi-segment) APP1 - XMP R/W/C Extensible Metadata Platform (multi-segment) APP1 - QVCI R Casio QV-7000SX QVCI information APP1 - FLIR R FLIR thermal imaging data (multi-segment) APP1 - RawThermalImage R Thermal image from Parrot Bebop-Pro Thermal drone APP2 - ICC R/W/C International Color Consortium (multi-segment) APP2 - FPXR R FlashPix Ready (multi-segment) APP2 - MPF R Multi-Picture Format APP2 - PreviewImage R Samsung/GE APP2 preview image (multi-segment) APP3 - Kodak Meta R/W Kodak Meta information (EXIF-like) APP3 - Stim R Stereo Still Image format APP3 - PreviewImage R Samsung/HP preview image (multi-segment) APP4 - Scalado R (presumably written by Scalado mobile software) APP4 - FPXR R FlashPix Ready in non-standard location (multi-segment) APP4 - PreviewImage R (continued from APP3) APP5 - Ricoh RMETA R Ricoh custom fields APP5 - Samsung UniqueID R Samsung Unique ID APP5 - PreviewImage R (continued from APP4) APP6 - EPPIM R Toshiba PrintIM APP6 - NITF R National Imagery Transmission Format APP6 - HP TDHD R Hewlett-Packard Photosmart R837 TDHD information APP6 - GoPro R GoPro Metadata Format (GPMF) information APP7 - Pentax R Pentax APP7 maker notes APP7 - Qualcomm R Qualcomm Camera Attributes APP7 - Huawei R Huawei APP7 maker notes (extract with Unknown option) APP8 - SPIFF R Still Picture Interchange File Format APP9 - Media Jukebox R Media Jukebox XML information APP10 - Comment R PhotoStudio Unicode Comment APP11 - JPEG-HDR R JPEG-HDR compressed ratio image APP12 - Picture Info R ASCII-based Picture Information APP12 - Ducky R/W/C Photoshop "Save for Web" APP13 - Photoshop IRB R/W/C Image Resource Block (multi-segment, includes IPTC) APP13 - Adobe CM R Adobe Color Management APP14 - Adobe R/W/C Adobe DCT filter APP15 - GraphicConverter R GraphicConverter quality COM R/W/C JPEG Comment (multi-segment) DQT R (used to calculate the Extra:JPEGDigest tag value) SOF R JPEG Start Of Frame Trailers 1 AFCP trailer R/W AXS File Concatenation Protocol (includes IPTC) CanonVRD trailer R/W/C Canon DPP Recipe Data (includes DR4) FotoStation trailer R/W FotoWare FotoStation (includes IPTC) PhotoMechanic trailer R/W Camera Bits Photo Mechanic MIE trailer R/W Meta Information Encapsulation Samsung trailer R Samsung Galaxy trailer Insta360 trailer R Insta360 trailer found in INSP files PreviewImage trailer R/W/C (preview image written after JPEG EOI) EmbeddedVideo trailer R (extracted only with ExtractEmbedded option)
System Requirements
Requires Perl 5.004 or later. No other libraries or software required, but some optional Perl modules may be added to enable certain ExifTool features (for details, see the DEPENDENCIES section of the README file included in the full distribution).
Windows users: A stand-alone Windows executable version of ExifTool is available which doesn't require Perl. You can also use the pure Perl version if you already have Perl installed. (You can get a good, free Perl interpreter from activeperl.com.)
Everyone else (Mac, Unix, etc): Don't worry, you already have Perl installed.
Running ExifTool
The exiftool application provides a convenient command-line interface for the Image::ExifTool Perl package (both included in the full distribution). Once you have downloaded and extracted the distribution, you can immediately run exiftool (without building or installing) by typing "" (or "" in Windows), where is the exiftool directory and is the name of an image file, including directory name. Read the installation instructions or the README file included in the full distribution for help installing ExifTool.
Many command-line options are available to allow you to access a wide range of features. Run exiftool with no arguments for a complete list of available options with examples.
Running in Windows
i) From the command line:
The Perl application ("") is run by typing "". Alternately, you may be able to rename it to "" and type "", but this requires that the proper Windows associations have been made for the the "" extension.
The stand-alone version ("") should be renamed to "" to allow it to be run by typing "" at the command line.
If the exiftool executable ("" or "") is not in the current directory or your system PATH, then its directory must be specified on the command line (eg. by typing "" or "").
Note that when typing commands in the "cmd.exe" shell, you should use double quotes instead of single quotes as shown in some examples.
ii) Stand-alone version in the Windows GUI:
Double-click on "" to read the application documentation, or drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files.
Simple options may be added inside brackets in the name of the stand-alone executable. (But note that the characters may not be used because they are invalid in Windows file names.) In this way, the behaviour of the drag-and-drop application can be customized. For example:
Executable Name Operation exiftool(-k).exe Print meta information in window and pause before terminating. exiftool(-k -a -u -g1 -w txt).exe Generate output "" files with detailed meta information. exiftool(-k -o %d%f.xmp).exe Generate sidecar "" files. exiftool(-copyright='Phil Harvey').exe Add copyright information (and don't pause before terminating).
Hint: Options may also be added to the "Target" property of a Windows shortcut for the executable. Using a shortcut has 3 advantages over adding options in the file name: 1) different shortcuts may be created without requiring multiple copies of the executable, 2) characters which are invalid in file names may be used, and 3) the shortcuts can be given more meaningful (and convenient) file names.
As well, it may be useful to increase the window and buffer sizes to display more information: Right-click on the window's title bar then select "Properties" from the menu and change the window layout settings.
Example Output
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File Name Canon.jpg Camera Model Name Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL Date/Time Original 2003:12:04 06:46:52 Shooting Mode Bulb Shutter Speed 4 Aperture 14.0 Metering Mode Center-weighted average Exposure Compensation 0 ISO 100 Lens 18.0 - 55.0 mm Focal Length 34.0 mm Image Size 8x8 Quality RAW Flash No Flash White Balance Auto Focus Mode Manual Focus (3) Contrast +1 Sharpness +1 Saturation +1 Color Tone Normal Color Space sRGB File Size 2.6 kB File Number 118-1861 Drive Mode Continuous Shooting Owner Name Phil Harvey Serial Number 0560018150 >
Dateiname Canon.jpg Kameramodell Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL Erstellungsdatum/-uhrzeit 2003:12:04 06:46:52 Aufnahmemodus Bulb Belichtungsdauer 4 Blende 14.0 Belichtungsmessmethode Mittenbetont Belichtungskorrektur 0 ISO-Empfindlichkeit 100 Objektiv 18.0 - 55.0 mm Brennweite 34.0 mm Bildgröße 8x8 Qualität RAW Blitzmodus Blitz wurde nicht ausgelöst Weißabgleich Automatisch Fokus-Modus Manueller Fokus (3) Kontrast +1 Schärfe +1 Farbsättigung +1 Farbton Normal Farbraum sRGB Dateigröße 2.6 kB Dateinummer 118-1861 Aufnahmeart Serienaufnahme Name des Besitzers Phil Harvey Seriennummer 0560018150
Verbose and HtmlDump Output
The Verbose () and HtmlDump () options print additional information that can be very useful for debugging or when decoding new tags.
Tag Names Explained
A tag name is a "handle" that is used to refer to a specific piece of meta information. Tag names are entered on the command line with a leading '', in the order you want them displayed. Case is not significant. The tag name may be prefixed by a group name (separated by a colon) to identify a specific information type or location. A special tag name of "" may be used to represent all tags, or all tags in a specified group. For example:
exiftool -filename -imagesize -exif:fnumber -xmp:all image.jpg
A complete list of ExifTool Tag Names accompanies this documentation. As well, current lists of available tag names and writable tag names may be obtained using the exiftool and options. But perhaps the easiest way to determine a tag name is to use the option to print the tag names instead of descriptions for all information in a file. It may also be helpful to use the option to display the group names, and the or option to print the numerical tag ID's for reference.
Notes:
- Tag names sometimes differ from their descriptions. Use the command-line option to see the actual tag names instead of the descriptions shown when extracting information.
- When extracting information, tags will not appear in the output unless they exist in the file, even if they are specified on the command line. The option may be used to force all specified tags to be displayed (not including tags specified with wildcards or by ).
- Information for a given tag name may occur in multiple locations within a single file. By default these duplicate tags are suppressed, but the option may be used to extract all tags.
- Tag names may be suffixed by a '' character to disable the print conversion on a per-tag basis. See the -n option in the application documentation for more information.
Shortcut Tags
Shortcut tags represent one or more other tags, and are used like any other tag when reading, writing or copying information.
ExifTool defines a few shortcut tags in the Image::ExifTool::Shortcuts module, and allows users to define their own shortcuts in a configuration file called "" in their home directory or exiftool application directory. Here is a simple example that defines two shortcuts:
%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Shortcuts = ( MyShortcut => ['createdate','exposuretime','aperture'], MyAlias => 'FocalLengthIn35mmFormat', );
In this example, MyShortcut is a shortcut for the CreateDate, ExposureTime and Aperture tags, and MyAlias is a shortcut for FocalLengthIn35mmFormat.
The current shortcuts may be listed with the option.
The file may also be used to define new tags. For more information about the configuration file, see the sample configuration file included with the ExifTool distribution.
Windows tip: You may have difficulty generating a filename beginning with a '' in the Windows GUI, but it can be done with the "" command at the cmd.exe prompt.
Tag Groups
ExifTool classifies tags into groups in various families. Here is a list of the group names in each family:
Family Group Names 0 (Information Type) AFCP, AIFF, APE, APP0, APP1, APP11, APP12, APP13, APP14, APP15, APP4, APP5, APP6, APP8, ASF, Audible, CanonVRD, Composite, DICOM, DNG, DV, DjVu, Ducky, EXE, EXIF, ExifTool, FITS, FLAC, FLIR, File, Flash, FlashPix, Font, FotoStation, GIF, GIMP, GeoTiff, GoPro, H264, HTML, ICC_Profile, ID3, IPTC, ISO, ITC, JFIF, JPEG, JSON, Jpeg2000, LNK, Leaf, Lytro, M2TS, MIE, MIFF, MNG, MOI, MPC, MPEG, MPF, MXF, MakerNotes, Matroska, Meta, Ogg, OpenEXR, Opus, PDF, PICT, PLIST, PNG, PSP, Palm, Parrot, PanasonicRaw, PhotoCD, PhotoMechanic, Photoshop, PostScript, PrintIM, QuickTime, RAF, RIFF, RSRC, RTF, Radiance, Rawzor, Real, Red, SVG, SigmaRaw, Stim, Theora, Torrent, Trailer, UserParam, VCard, Vorbis, WTV, XML, XMP, ZIP 1 (Specific Location) 2 (Category) Audio, Author, Camera, Device, Document, ExifTool, Image, Location, Other, Preview, Printing, Time, Unknown, Video 3 (Document Number) Doc#, Main 4 (Instance Number) Copy# 5 (Metadata Path) [experimental] eg. JPEG-APP1-IFD0-ExifIFD 6 (EXIF/TIFF Format) int8u, string, int16u, int32u, rational64u, int8s, undef, int16s, int32s, rational64s, float, double, ifd, unicode, complex, int64u, int64s, ifd64 7 (Tag ID) ID-xxx (where xxx is the tag ID. Numerical ID's are given in hex with a leading "0x" if the HexTagIDs API option is set, as are characters in non-numerical ID's which are not valid in a group name. Note that unlike other group names, family 7 group names are case sensitive.)
The exiftool output can be organized based on these groups using the or option (ie. to see family 1 groups, or to see both family 3 and family 1 group names in the output. See the option in the exiftool application documentation for more details, and the GetGroup function in the ExifTool library for a description of the group families. Note that when writing, only family 0, 1, 2 and 7 group names may be used.
Writing Meta Information
When writing information, ExifTool preserves the original file by adding "" to the file name. Be sure to keep a copy of the original, or thoroughly validate the new file before erasing the original. (Read here for some ramblings on the subject of writing meta information.)
Syntax
Tag values are written rather than being extracted if any tag name ends with a '' symbol (or if the or options are used). The '' may be prefixed by '', '' or '' to add a value, remove a value or set a value from file. The following table outlines the different write syntaxes:
† See the Writer Limitations for some limitations of this feature.
Syntax Result -TAG= Deletes all occurrences of TAG -all= Deletes all meta information! † -GROUP:TAG= Deletes TAG only in specified group -GROUP:all= Deletes all information in specified group -[GROUP:]TAG=VALUE Sets value of TAG (only in GROUP if specified) -[GROUP:]TAG+=VALUE Adds item to a list, shifts a date/time, or increments a number -[GROUP:]TAG-=VALUE Removes item from a list, shifts a date/time, or deletes TAG if it has the specified value -[GROUP:]TAG<=FILE Sets tag value from contents of specified file
Quotes are required around VALUE if it contains spaces or other special characters, and around the whole argument if the '' syntax is used (to prevent shell redirection).
A special feature allows the print conversion to be disabled on a per-tag basis by suffixing any tag name (including '') with the '' character. This has the same effect as the option, but for a single tag. See the -n option in the application documentation for more details.
Note: Changes to PDF files are reversible because the original metadata is never actually deleted from these files. See the PDF Tags documentation for details.
Group Priorities
ExifTool prioritizes the following types of meta information when writing:
1) EXIF, 2) IPTC, 3) XMP
Many tag names are valid for more than one of these groups. If a group name is not specified when writing information, then the information is added only to the highest priority group for which the tag name is valid (however, the information is updated in all groups where the tag already existed). The priority of the groups is given by the list above. Specifically, this means that new information is added preferentially to the EXIF group, or to the IPTC group if no corresponding EXIF tag exists, or finally to the XMP group.
Alternatively, information may be written to a specific group only, bypassing these priorities, by providing a group name for the tag. The "Writing Meta Information" section above gave the syntax rules for exiftool command-line arguments to do this. Any family 0, 1, 2 or 7 group name may be used when writing information, although not all groups are writable.
The "-tagsFromFile" Option
A special ExifTool option allows copying tags from one file to another. The command-line syntax for doing this is "". Any tags specified after this option on the command line are extracted from source file and written to the destination file. If no tags are specified, then all writable tags are copied. This option is very simple, yet very powerful. Depending on the formats of the source and destination files, some of tags read may not be valid in the destination file, in which case they aren't written.
This option may also be used to transfer information between different tags within a single image or between different images. See the -tagsFromFile option in the application documentation for more details.
Writer Limitations
- ExifTool will not rewrite a file if it detects a significant problem with the file format.
- ExifTool has been tested with a wide range of different images, but since it is not possible to test it with every known image type, there is the possibility that it will corrupt some files. Be sure to keep backups of your files.
- Even though ExifTool does some validation of the information written, it is still possible to write illegal values which may cause problems when reading the images with other software. So take care to validate the information you are writing.
- ExifTool is not guaranteed to remove metadata completely from a file when attempting to delete all metadata. For JPEG images, all APP segments (except Adobe APP14, which is not removed by default) and trailers are removed which effectively removes all metadata, but for other formats the results are less complete:
- JPEG - APP segments (except Adobe APP14) and trailers are removed.
- TIFF - XMP, IPTC, ICC_Profile and the ExifIFD are removed, but some EXIF may remain in IFD0. (The CommonIFD0 Shortcut tag is provided to simplify removal of common metadata tags from IFD0.)
- PNG - Only XMP, EXIF, ICC_Profile and native PNG textual data chunks are removed.
- PDF - The original metadata is never actually removed.
- PS - Only XMP and some native PostScript tags may be deleted.
- MOV/MP4 - Most top-level metadata is removed.
- RAW formats - It is not recommended to remove all metadata from RAW images because this will likely remove some proprietary information that is necessary for proper rendering of the image.
Known Problems
- [2020-02-18]Hasselblad Phocus software will no longer update the small preview or thumbnail images of FFF files edited by ExifTool. This is perhaps due to some unreferenced preview information in the file that is lost when edited by ExifTool, but this does not seem to have any other effect. [ExifTool 11.88 and later issue a minor error when attempting to write FFF files]
- [2019-05-29]Canon Digital Photo Professional 4 (DPP4) will destroy a CR3 image when editing if it had previously been edited by DPP4 followed by ExifTool. [ExifTool 11.45 fixes this by structuring the CR3 to make it safe for editing with DPP4, and may be used to restructure files written by older ExifTool versions.]
- [2018-09-27] The Sony Imaging Edge applications give an error when trying to open ARW or ARQ images edited by ExifTool, although other RAW image utilities including Sony IDC (Sony's older RAW image converter), Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and DNG Converter, Apple Preview, dcraw, Capture One, Affinity Photo, and LibRaw's SonyPixelShift2DNG have no problems with these.
- [2016-08-03] Some antivirus software has been known to cause problems for the Windows version of ExifTool. Norton Antivirus may delete ExifTool when it is run, Windows Defender may slow down launching of ExifTool or hang it altogether, and Bitdefender Antivirus may block ExifTool from writing files. Presumably this is due to the way the ExifTool package for Windows works -- it unpacks executable files into a temporary directory and runs from there, which apparently may be seen as a threat by antivirus software. A work-around is to add ExifTool to the exclusion list of the antivirus software.
- [2016-05-27]Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter 9.5.1 fail to recognize edited Samsung SRW images from some models (NX30, NX300, NX2000 and EK-GN120). [This problem was fixed for the NX models in ExifTool 10.26, and writing of EK-GN120 files was disabled in ExifTool 10.95]
- In Windows, ExifTool will not process files with Unicode characters in the file name. This is due to an underlying lack of support for Unicode filenames in the Windows standard C I/O libraries. [This deficiency was addressed in ExifTool 9.79, and ExifTool now supports Windows Unicode file names with some exceptions. See the WINDOWS UNICODE FILE NAMES section of the application documentation for details.]
- [2013-11-08]Apple Spotlight and Preview (OS X 10.8.5) and Adobe Photoshop CC (version 14.0) ignore XMP in PNG images if it comes after the image data, which is where ExifTool adds new XMP. This should be considered as a bug in the Apple and Adobe software since XMP is allowed to exist after the image data according to the XMP and PNG specifications. [ExifTool 9.40 provides the PNGEarlyXMP API option to allow writing XMP before the IDAT chunk, but there are caveats associated with its use. ExifTool 11.58 and later remove this option and always write XMP before IDAT, and 11.63 and later write all text chunks before IDAT.]
- [2013-04-21] Memory available to ExifTool in the Windows EXE version is limited to a few hundred MB. This limitation has been known to cause unreasonably long processing times (almost 7 minutes) for some large EPS files (> 200 MB) which are processed much faster by the Perl version (< 6 seconds).
- [2010-01-12] There is a bug in a number of Adobe utilities which causes some edited Sony ARW images to be displayed with the wrong tone curve. This problem has been observed in Photoshop CS4 Camera Raw 5.6, DNG Converter 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 with ARW images from the A500, A550, A700, A850 and A900. Other software such as the Sony IDC utility, Apple RAW utilities, dcraw and Capture One have no problems with edited images. [This bug is fixed in Camera Raw 6.3 and LR 3.3]
- [2007-07-06] There is a bug in the Apple RAW file support (OS X 10.4.11) which prevents some edited Pentax PEF images from being displayed properly. Other software such as the Pentax Silkypix software and dcraw have no problems with these images. [This bug is fixed in OS X 10.5.4]
Security Issues
Some ExifTool options (, , , , and copying arguments like ) have the ability to execute Perl code from external files or within command-line arguments. This may be a security problem if ExifTool is executed from another application that blindly passes untrusted file names on the command line (since they may be interpreted as ExifTool options if they begin with a dash). To be secure the calling application must either place file names after the "" option, or ensure that input file names do not start with a dash (U+002D) or a Unicode minus sign (U+2212). One way to accomplish this is to prefix input file names with a known directory name, eg.) .
Date/Time Shift Feature
Have you ever forgotten to set the date/time on your digital camera before taking a bunch of pictures? ExifTool has a time shift feature that makes it easy to apply a batch fix to the timestamps of the images (eg. change the "Date Picture Taken" reported by Windows Explorer). Say for example that your camera clock was reset to 2000:01:01 00:00:00 when you put in a new battery at 2005:11:03 10:48:00. Then all of the pictures you took subsequently have timestamps that are wrong by 5 years, 10 months, 2 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes. To fix this, put all of the images in the same directory ("") and run exiftool:
exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal+=5:10:2 10:48:0" DIR
The example above changes only the DateTimeOriginal tag, but any writable date or time tag can be shifted, and multiple tags may be written with a single command line. Commonly, in JPEG images, the DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and ModifyDate values must all be changed. For convenience, a Shortcut tag called AllDates has been defined to represent these three tags. So, for example, if you forgot to set your camera clock back 1 hour at the end of daylight savings time in the fall, you can fix the images with:
exiftool -AllDates-=1 DIR
See Image::ExifTool::Shift.pl (download in PDF format) for details about the syntax of the time shift string.
Note: Not all date/time information is covered by the AllDates shortcut. Specifically, the filesystem date/time tags are not included, and this command will reset FileModifyDate to the current date/time as it should when the file is modified, unless either the option is used, or FileModifyDate is set to something else. To shift FileModifyDate along with the other tags, add to the command above.
Renaming and/or Moving Files
By writing a new value to the FileName and/or Directory tags, files can be renamed and/or moved to different directories. This can be a very powerful tool in combination with the (date format) option for organizing images by date/time. For example, the following command renames all images in directory "" according to the individual file's creation date in the form "".
exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%%e" DIR
Or a new directory can be specified by setting the value of the Directory tag. For example, the following command moves all images originally in directory "" into a directory hierarchy organized by year/month/day:
exiftool "-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" -d "%Y/%m/%d" DIR
Read here for more details about this powerful feature.
Improving Performance
There is a significant overhead in loading ExifTool, so performance may be greatly improved by taking advantage of ExifTool's batch processing capabilities (the ability to process multiple files or entire directories with a single command) to reduce the number of executed commands when performing complex operations or processing multiple files.†[One exiftool user documented a 60x speed increase by processing a large number of files with a single command instead of running exiftool separately on each file.] Also, the option may be used to perform multiple independent operations with a single invocation of exiftool, and together with the option provides a method for calling applications to avoid this startup overhead.
It has also been observed that the loading time of ExifTool for Windows increases significantly when Windows Defender is active. Disabling Windows Defender may speed things up significantly.
The processing speed of ExifTool can be improved when extracting information by reducing the amount of work that it must do. Decrease the number of extracted tags by specifying them individually () or by group (), and disable the composite tags () and the print conversions () if these features aren't required. Note that the exclude options ( or ) are not very efficient, and may have a negative impact on performance if a large number of tags are excluded individually.
The option can significantly increase speed when extracting information from JPEG images which are piped across a slow network connection. However, with this option any information in a JPEG trailer is not extracted. For more substantial speed benefits, may be used to also avoid extracting MakerNote information if this is not required, or if only pseudo System tags are required.
When writing, avoid copying tags (with ) or using the or option because these will add the extra step of extracting tags from the file. Without these the write operation is accomplished with a single pass of each file.
†However, note that when the option is used, information from all files is buffered in memory before the CSV output is written. This may be very memory intensive and result in poor performance when reading a large number of files in a single command.
The Image::ExifTool Perl Library Module
The "" script provides a command-line interface to the Image::ExifTool Perl library module which is part of the ExifTool distribution. The Image::ExifTool module can be used in any Perl script to provide easy access to meta information. Here is an example of a very simple script that uses Image::ExifTool to print out all recognized meta information in a file:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use Image::ExifTool ':Public'; my $file = shift or die "Please specify filename"; my $info = ImageInfo($file); foreach (keys %$info) { print "$_ : $info->{$_}\n"; }
Note that some tag values may be returned as SCALAR references indicating binary data. The simple script above does not handle this case.
See the Image::ExifTool Documentation for more details.
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