Free EXIF tool for Windows

[dkm777]

Hi guys,

Although this is a software question, but I guess this is a better place to ask. What do you use for managing and editing EXIF data in your photos? A long time ago I had a command line program for this job, but I forgot what it was and being command line it was cumbersome to use. Any freeware GUI stuff around nowadays?

 

[gevorg]

It was probably ExifTool by Phil Harvey. Here is a GUI for it:
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/

 

[IronWing]

^^ Cool. I've been using ExifTool for years in command line mode. I'll have to give the GUI a spin.

 

[dkm777]

Yes, ExifTool it was! Thanks Gevorg. That GUI looks great.

 

[razel]

You could also use Windows Explorer itself. Right click the image file for the properties then dig into the details tab to edit. To quickly view EXIF, you can bring up the 'details pane' on the right to see the EXIF info or create your own EXIF views, by changing to the details view and adding the columns you want at will, then save that view.

Windows Explorer doesn't make it obvious that it can do all that, but once you have it set and your EXIF column saved, it's pretty hard to beat for quick viewing a sorting.

 

[shortylickens]

ACDSee, it doesnt have automated tools for batch EXIF processing, but it does a good job.

Oh, and costs money.
Never mind.

But thanks for the link, I needed something like that as well.

 

[IronWing]

You could also use Windows Explorer itself. Right click the image file for the properties then dig into the details tab to edit. To quickly view EXIF, you can bring up the 'details pane' on the right to see the EXIF info or create your own EXIF views, by changing to the details view and adding the columns you want at will, then save that view.

Windows Explorer doesn't make it obvious that it can do all that, but once you have it set and your EXIF column saved, it's pretty hard to beat for quick viewing a sorting.

Win Explorer is handy but doesn't show all the exif fields available for a given image file. ExifTool pulls the field names out of each image file so you know you're seeing all the data.