jExifToolGUI VS darktable

Here is a GUI tool to manipulate Exif data, which is the most common form of metadata.

Does anyone have any recommendations for software that can create metadata, especially keywords? I also need recommendations for software that is able to search through all the metadata and present files based on keywords or any other rules that make it easy to locate files. Currently looking at jEXIFToolGUI, I prefer the GUI because many different files (especially images) require me to be able to see a preview and using a command line tool would take a massive amount of time to create the metadata

commandline exiftool if it is ok for you, probably fastes way how to transfer Cretated to Original date for lot of files, or jExifToolGUI if you need gui app - https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/

To just browse and tag, Adobe Bridge is free and will to correctly add metadata following the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard. Also free and uses exiftool on the backend is jExifToolGUI.

There may be GUIs for it, the search words would be exiftool and gui. Here is jExifToolGui. It seems to be as pretty as its name; I have no experience with it.

mat is not the only option. Most of the time I use exiftool, but on images I also use Imagemagick. I recently found an interesting GUI front-end for exiftool called jExifToolGUI - it is available as an AppImage, so you do not have to worry about dependencies and removing it is as simple as deleting the file. https://github.com/hvdwolf/jExifToolGUI/releases

You will have to add/alter the metadata of the image. One rather complicated way is through exiftool (GUI https://github.com/hvdwolf/jExifToolGUI/releases), changing values for InitialViewHeadingDegrees IitialViewPitchDegrees InitialViewRollDegrees in GPano tab

There's only one exiftool program, located at exiftool.org, though there are some programs that use exiftool on the backend, such as hvdwolf's jExifToolGUI.

There's also darktable which is open source but rather .. involved. It's incredibly powerful but has a steep learning curve. https://www.darktable.org/

> 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.

https://www.darktable.org/ or https://www.rawtherapee.com/ both free, open source and cross platform

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.

Darktable - Price: Free Free and open-source photo editing software for Mac that features advanced editing tools and a user-friendly interface.

The base M2 is plenty cheap and pack a lot of punch in it, it flies through my RAW edits in darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) even with just 8GB of RAM. (Granted I don't have much things else running when using darktable).