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exiftool
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Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
> Any method that I've found to clean them up (exporting the originals, deleting them from the library, and then re-importing the JPEGs only seems easiest) will lose all of the years of metadata that I've built up in the library.
The open source tool osxphotos (https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos) can help with this. You can export the JPEG images while preserving metadata using the thrid-party exiftool utility:
`osxphotos export /path/to/export --has-raw --skip-raw --exiftool`
This exports all images that have a raw pair but skips the raw component then uses exiftool (https://exiftool.org/) to write the metadata (keywords, etc.) to the exported JPEG files. You can then re-import these into photos either by dragging them or by running `osxphotos import /path/to/export/*`
Both the export and import commands have many other options for controlling export directory, etc. `osxphotos help export` or `osxphotos docs` to open docs in browser. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of osxphotos)
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Is there a way to remove metadata from an image file?
Check out exiftool.org
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Locationator: Access Apple's Reverse Geocoding service from the command line, Services menu
Locationator also comes with an optional CLI that can be used to perform reverse geocoding on images from the command line or perform the reverse geocoding and then write the location data to the file's XMP metadata using exiftool. It also comes with two services for doing the same from the Finder or other apps using the Services menu.
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Exploring EXIF
ExifTool[0] does all that from the command line. I use it for automating my photo organization workflow and, as a bonus, I use it for reading the metadata of damn near any filetype.
[0]: https://exiftool.org
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JPEG XL: How It Started, How Itβs Going
I think TIFF has some unique features that makes it more prone to certain security issues[1] compared to other formats, such as storing absolute file offsets instead of relative offsets. So I am not sure TIFF is a good container format, but many camera raws are TIFF-based for some reason.[2]
[1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=libtiff
[2] https://exiftool.org/#supported (search for "TIFF-based")
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Compiling Perl for Android
I found no better tool than ExifTool by Phil Harvey. It works amazingly for this format and more!
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Bulk image metadata edit
I would first use a renaming tool to make the files more digestile and then use something like https://exiftool.org/ and a 4 line script with a for loop that uses the file name to retimestamp your pics.
Ok so you use this tool: https://exiftool.org
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any program for MACOS or for Ubuntu that is free that allows you to edit the meta tags of photos en masse. Thanks!
As u/ToddBradley posted, exiftool is by far the best tool for batch editing metadata. It runs on macOS/Linux/Windows.
darktable
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Darktable: Crashing into the Wall in Slow-Motion
FWIW, here is the recent merged pull requests from darktable:
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i...
At the moment, this is about a week's work by eight authors. Others cycle/in out, of course -- this is a spot sample. They range from bugfixes to performance improvements to documentation to translation work. All what one would hope for in a software project headed to its bi-annual release next month.
There are many ways to develop, and it may be a bit cruel to compare a one-man show to a long-term international collaboration. But here are the recently merged pull requests from the software which is posted about in the blog post:
https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i...
On the first page, I see about five authors offering PR's over the course of all of 2023 -- a much slower pace of community development.
It appears that Ansel is being developed more by direct commits from its main author. So let's compare the recent commits:
https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/commits/master
Page 1 of Ansel commits is by its mono-author from the last week. Page 2 takes us back to August. Page 3 back to June. I totally understand that good developers need to work carefully and sit on things, then release them in due time.
Here goes for darktable commits:
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/commits/master
If we take a moment to page back to page 3, one can note that we're back to two weeks ago (rather than June). Steady work by a committed community matters. The log of work done is may be quite worth looking at, rather than incendiary blog posts.
> the while loop of death (source: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....)
shudder
Yeah, I too wouldn't want to volunteer to contribute to a project which is OK with this.
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Ansel
Author has a blog post here, https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent..., which exhibits some example code, for example, this: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....
That's a far cry from what I'd find acceptable in any project.
- Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur
- Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
Darktable - Price: Free Free and open-source photo editing software for Mac that features advanced editing tools and a user-friendly interface.
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Question regarding different versions in ubuntu
You can try also nightly appimage if you prefer it over ppa, currently it will have just few fixes on top of 4.4.1: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/nightly To test it you can use it with different config dir to avoid upgrading your dt database. There is also 4.4.1 as snap package: https://snapcraft.io/darktable A lot has changed, you can see release notes: https://www.darktable.org/2022/07/darktable-4.0.0-released/ https://www.darktable.org/2022/12/darktable-4.2.0-released/ https://www.darktable.org/2023/06/darktable-4.4.0-released/
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I have Sony a7iv. I am shooting Slog and trying color grading
I haven't used either of these personally but darktable and Raw Therapee are two open-source options that seem to get recommended a lot.
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Kharar mein Mausam π€π»
You'll be able to save RAW images. Fir unhe Darktable se edit karo. You'll get a much better result, aur ye bakwas filters lgane ki zarurat nhi padegi.
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Photography Tips and Tricks?
Some closing links to edit images, just because I dislike Adobe as a company :P. https://krita.org/en/ - a great and free image editing tool, focused on painting but very much funtional in many ways you would also find in Photoshop. https://www.photopea.com/ - an online alternative of Photoshop. https://www.darktable.org/ - A free lightroom alternative to edit raw photos with. http://rawtherapee.com/ - Dito for more platforms
What are some alternatives?
RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program
exiv2 - Image metadata library and tools
ansel - A darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision.
jExifToolGUI - jExifToolGUI is a multi-platform java/Swing graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey
exifcleaner - Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata
HomeBrew - πΊ The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
davinci-resolve-linux - Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media
FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
DiffusionToolkit - Metadata-indexer and Viewer for AI-generated images
google-photos-merge-metadata - Merge your metadata back to your photos exported with Google Takeout.
czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
exifr - π· The fastest and most versatile JS EXIF reading library.