I spent a day working out how to create a watermark for a load of photos to be uploaded to website.
then I spent another day getting the photoshop droplet thing to do its thing correctly for adding the watermark on bulk.
Now i see when I upload i need to change the properties of the EXIF file because every picture is called OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA which i know i can change easily in windows explorer, but then on looking i found that each file has all this other information with it.
My problem is having found the ExifTool i really can not figure out what i'm meant to do with it (easily) without having to spend a horrendous amount of time of trial and error has anyone got a sample of a bat file that I could use that allows me to keep
Description the Title, the Subject, the Comments (all empty for now) but removes all else
Origin date taken and change the copyright to @copyright and remove the program name (especially this as i cant remove it using windows explorer) but removes all else
Image don't need
Camera don't need
File I don't really want any of that but it can remain if necessary
and get rid of anything else that is in there - except probably the thumbnail as i guess that is useful for the website gallery and windows explorer- or if not then that can go as well.
I know its all very straightforward to those of you that are good at this sort of thing - but to be honest I'm finding it a right trial to sort it out properly - so do be gentle with your comments about how straight forward it is.
Even if you don't have a bat file for this - just a few examples would be of great benefit - I have found the website bewildering.
The command would be something like this:
exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -TAGTOKEEP1 -TAGTOKEEP2 -TAGTOCHANGE1="some value" -TAGTOCHANGE2="some value2" DIR
You'll have to figure out what tags you want to keep and change. See FAQ 2 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q2) for help determining the tag names.
- Phil
Further to Phil's reply try the following:
exiftool -a -G1 -s "C:\path\to\file\or folder\here.tif"
Which should help you narrow down which specific tags you wish to target.
Really appreciate the help there - of course I should have read the stuff immediately above more thoroughly.
Will attempt to sit down and do this sometime over the next few days - so may well have some more questions if you don't mind.
swarmcatcher, it would probably help for you to populate a small test image with known metadata values and if you need help to supply either the ExifTool tag output or make the sample file available for others to download and test.
Thank you Stephen, hopefully will get time to look at this at the weekend - though work is heavily backlogged at the moment, but if I can I will. So if i'm still struggling with it that maybe a good route - thanks