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#HOW TO EDIT EXIF METADATA ON MAC EXIFTOOL HOW TO#
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Remove all metadata from all png files in the working directory:Įxiftool -all= -overwrite_original -ext png. Remove all metadata from the current directory:

#HOW TO EDIT EXIF METADATA ON MAC EXIFTOOL LICENSE#

Here is an example for changing all metadata following the Creative commons recommendations:Įxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-dc:Rights="This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license " -xmp:usageterms="This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license " -XMP-cc:license="" -XMP-cc:AttributionName="Creator" -XMP-cc:AttributionURL="" "file name.extension"Įxiftool -all= -overwrite_original "file name.extension" Here are some examples for modifying the Creative Commons schema:Įxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:license="" "file name.extension"Įxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:AttributionName="Creator" "file name.extension"Įxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:AttributionURL="Creator URL" "file name.extension"Įxample combining License URL, attribution name and URLĮxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:license="" -XMP-cc:AttributionName="Creator" -XMP-cc:AttributionURL="" "file name.extension"Ĭombining the CC right informations and Creative Commons schema Here is an example to set the field to True:Įxiftool -overwrite_original -xmp:usageterms=True "file name.extension" The Creative Commons official recommendation concerning XMP metadata information is to use identical content for the dc:rights and xmpRights:UsageTerms fields.Įxiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-dc:Rights="This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license " -xmp:usageterms="This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license " "file name.extension"Īlso according to the Creative Commons recommendation, xmpRights:Marked soud be set to False if Public Domain, True otherwise. Here we want to add or change creator/author information of the XMP Dublin Core standard schema:Įxiftool -XMP-dc:Creator="Creator" "file name.extension"Ĭopyright Notice an Creator metadata changes in one single commandĮxiftool -overwrite_original -rights="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -CopyrightNotice="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -XMP-dc:Creator="Creator" "file name.extension"ģ.

#HOW TO EDIT EXIF METADATA ON MAC EXIFTOOL FULL#

Here is a full example with a standard American copyright notice and no backup file:Įxiftool -overwrite_original -rights="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -CopyrightNotice="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" "file name.extension"

Format the copyright notice according to your country: Guide to photo metadata fields / Copyright Notice.

To avoid that and modify files directly, use the -overwrite_original option.

ExifTool creates a copy of the original file, appending _original to the file name, as a backup.

Especially when using wildcards, *.jpg is not the same as *.JPG.

Remember that extensions and filenames are case sensitive on Linux.

#HOW TO EDIT EXIF METADATA ON MAC EXIFTOOL HOW TO#

Here is how to add standard copyright information to a file:Įxiftool -rights="Copyright" -CopyrightNotice="Copyright" "file name.extension"īatch metadata editing: Replace the file name with a directory name to modify all files in a directory.

The options -EXIF:Copyright and -copyright produce disappointing results in terms of compatibility with standard image managers on Linux. The -CopyrightNotice option also works reliably and populates the ITPC CopyrightNotice field.

More details: the -rights option seems to be a shorthand for -XMP-dc:Rights, and definitely a better solution than using the -copyright option, which doesn’t seem to produce readable results by gThumb and Gnome Image Viewer. Add copyright information to image metadata on Linux Copyright Notice and XMP RightsĪfter trying out a lot of metadata tags and testing the results, I recommend using both the -rights and -CopyrightNotice with identical content for copyright information. Metadata information can also be exported to an html document:Įxiftool -h.