

Many photo management applications like digiKam and Darktable make it possible to view and edit metadata. Inside almost every digital photo hides a wealth of useful metadata. In this article, I provide a gentle introduction to ExifTool's capabilities and show how to put this excellent tool to practical use.


Despite its comprehensive documentation, however, coming to grips with ExifTool can sometimes be a daunting proposition. Indeed, ExifTool can handle practically every metadata-related task you throw at it: from adding and removing tags to performing advanced actions based on specific values obtained from metadata. ExifTool has the well-deserved reputation of being a flexible and infinitely powerful utility for working with photographic metadata.
