Microsoft Pro Photo Tools: A review

07May08

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what something is supposed to do. Microsoft released their GPS tagging, metadata handling software called Pro Photo Tools a few days back, and I introduced it here.
Since then, I’ve tried it out some to see how it worked, and even used the geotagged photos on Flickr and Zooomr while testing [...]

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Tags: EXIF, GPS, metadata, Microsoft, software

Microsoft releases geotagging tool

01May08

I’ve been looking around for a way to easily geotag my photos. I already have a GPS (a GlobalSat DG-100) to periodically store the the GPS location as I travel (I might write about it in some future article), but have not found (and I haven’t tried hard enough to find) a good solution to [...]

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Tags: EXIF, geotagging, GPS, metadata, software

A GUI for ExifTool

20Apr08

I’ve written up a couple of blogs in the past that talks about what I’ve been using the ExifTool program for:

Viewing EXIF information with ExifTool
Removing EXIF metadata with ExifTool

To augment its usability, Bogdan Hrastnik wrote up a GUI for this great little software. It’s called ExifTool GUI and, like ExifTool, it’s free.

ExifTool GUI
I [...]

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Tags: EXIF, metadata, software

Removing EXIF metadata with ExifTool

12Apr08

About two weeks back, I wrote an entry about using ExifTool to easily view metadata in your images. Beyond just viewing metadata, ExifTool can also change or remove them. This entry is about removal.
Now, why would you want to remove anything from the EXIF?
I normally shoot with a Nikon D200 in raw capture mode, and [...]

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Firefox EXIF viewers

01Apr08

A few days back, I talked about ExifTool — about how useful it was to quickly see the EXIF information of the photos on your computer.
Well, what about images on the web? There are tons of photos out there. What if you want to see what camera a photo was taken with? What if you [...]

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Tags: EXIF, metadata, software