Software for changing EXIF in batch?

[GDML77]

Hello:

I am giving photos to a model, and want to allow her to edit or give permission to edit to whoever she likes.

I would like however to remove my copyright EXIF info, for a bunch of photos, so my name doesn't appear there... Its around 1500 photos, so it would be insane do it manually.

Anyone knows a software to do this? Free! Zero cost!

Cheers

GDML77

 

[ozanan]

ExifTool by Phil Harvey should do the job. It's completely free, zero cost, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can create a batch file, located in the installation location of ExifTool, drag and drop the files either one at a time or all at once onto the batch file.

If you only want to remove copyright info then the following in a batch file should do the trick for jpeg files (Just add other tag names if you want to remove extra data. The ^ means the command continues on the next line).


exiftool -overwrite_original ^
-Copyright= ^
%*


There's loads more info available on the website though.

 

[GDML77]

ExifTool by Phil Harvey should do the job. It's completely free, zero cost, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can create a batch file, located in the installation location of ExifTool, drag and drop the files either one at a time or all at once onto the batch file.

If you only want to remove copyright info then the following in a batch file should do the trick for jpeg files (Just add other tag names if you want to remove extra data. The ^ means the command continues on the next line).


exiftool -overwrite_original ^
-Copyright= ^
%*


There's loads more info available on the website though.

I have just noticed it supports CR2s. Thanks alot! problem solved!

GDML77

 

[Tricky01]

I actually did not explain myself properly.

I know that procedure, I use it frequently, but I actually meant the RAW files.

This was a 3 hours dance session in studio, where I just kept pressing the button... I actually promised to give out all RAWs, but all I want to change is the Copyright information, to change the name to someone else. Not necessarily clean up all EXIF info.

If you use Aperture 3 you can select all the images press Shift+cmd+B, find the fields to edit and edit them. Hit ok and it should update everything.

My RAWs are tagged on import with this data so can't see why it wouldn't work afterwards. The only exception MAY BE if they're hard cooked onto the files by your camera? My A900's don't have that facility so wouldn't know!

 

[GDML77]

If you use Aperture 3 you can select all the images press Shift+cmd+B, find the fields to edit and edit them. Hit ok and it should update everything.

My RAWs are tagged on import with this data so can't see why it wouldn't work afterwards. The only exception MAY BE if they're hard cooked onto the files by your camera? My A900's don't have that facility so wouldn't know!

Im with windows

 

[petersmart]

I have just noticed it supports CR2s. Thanks alot! problem solved!

GDML77

Be VERY careful using any exif program on RAW files - always copy them and work on the copies.
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