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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: think99 on September 07, 2010, 08:04:03 AM

Title: copyright - artist - etc.
Post by: think99 on September 07, 2010, 08:04:03 AM
Hi,

I am workig with Win XP prof. and have got an EOS-20D (Canon).
Now I'm trying to add some tags like copyright, artist, author to my pictures and found a command like

  exiftool "-copyright<(c) Thilo Schwenk ..." ".\SubFolder\foo.jpg" -overwrite original

in several places where I looked for help. Unfortunately, this always ends in

  0 image files updated
  1 image files unchanged


even with different positions of the double quotes, single quotes, positions of parameters ...
This does not only happen with manipulated images (gimp, picasa, corel) but also with the original jpgs.

What have I missed?
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks a lot.

Thilo
(obviously new to ExifTool)
Title: Re: copyright - artist - etc.
Post by: Phil Harvey on September 07, 2010, 08:15:29 AM
Hi Thilo,

Try "-copyright=(c) Thilo Schwenk ...".  The = is used to assign the value of a tag, while < is for copying the value of other tags.

Also, it should be -overwrite_original, not -overwrite original.

- Phil
Title: Re: copyright - artist - etc.
Post by: think99 on September 07, 2010, 08:28:31 AM
Hi Phil,

thanks for your quick response. I am ashamed ...

Thilo
(changing username from think to thick)
Title: Re: copyright - artist - etc.
Post by: think99 on September 07, 2010, 08:37:23 AM
Hi,

just for a bit time-saving, can I do several changes in one command?

Currently I am using a batch that runs through all images several times for adding copyright, adding owner and copying ( ;) ) the file-name into caption-abstract.

Thanks a lot.

Thilo
Title: Re: copyright - artist - etc.
Post by: Phil Harvey on September 07, 2010, 10:49:01 AM
Absolutely.  You can assign, copy, and/or delete as many tags as you want from as many files as you want with a single command.

- Phil