Batch editing EXIF?

[sioleabha]

I have a bunch of photos taken by my daughter that all have the wrong time and date in their EXIF info. I'd like to correct the dates on all of the photos at once. Can Adobe Bridge do this? If not, what program would you recommend?

[lscottpht]

I don't know if you can do that with Bridge, but you can do that with Lightroom. I've had to do it before when we forgot to sync our cameras.

[sioleabha]

Unfortunately I don't have Lightroom. Just PhotoShop CS3.

[janetg]

download a trial copy of acdsee pro 2 - it'll do it

[TXhummer2]

Opanda won't do raw. It will do the exported jpeg, tiff, or just Exif Templates.

http://www.opanda.com/en/pe/index.html

Photome will do raw.

http://www.photome.de/

[billbunton]

If you're willing to use the command line, exiftool will do it.

[johnastovall]

Bridge can do it with the "Replace Metadata" command.

[brad]

BreezeBrowser Pro will do it... use it all the time to sync multiple cameras' output from a wedding.

[sioleabha]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

Bridge can do it with the "Replace Metadata" command.

How? Because when I click that, it just opens a dialog to browse to a file.

[brad]

Let me add that what BB Pro can do for this is take an image, read the time stamp, take what time stamp you say it should have, figure the difference, and apply the difference to all of the other images you want it do.

[Sonny]

Hi Michelle,

Like mentioned above, try this by using Bidge in Photoshop. Video and some links.



http://jon.netdork.net/2008/02/11/me...ridgephotoshop

http://blogs.adobe.com/bridge/2006/0..._metadata.html

http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/?p=478

[sioleabha]

Thanks for that, Sonny, it was definitely useful information. However, when using the File Info dialog, you can't change the date the photo was taken in the EXIF info. It's not editable.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I will try out the programs you suggested. I'm going to try to get Lightroom first, since I already wanted it, but if that's not possible I'll try the other programs mentioned. :)