Photo Management: Edit EXIF and MetaData, Organize, Edit & Upload to Google Photos. Tools and the steps.

I. Edit EXIF and MetaData

EXIF Data as Tool Tips or Advanced Propeties via Shell Extension

1. View EXIF Data for Images from Windows (Via some Shell Ext) and stand alone tooles:

Fast Preeview : Integrate with Windows Explorer, with Clickable MAP!!! setupexe -> FastPreview-x86_64-4.1.exe

PhotoME : Detailed EXIF info single photots, setupexe –> PhotoME079R17Setup.exe

FastStone PhotoViewer, View EXIF in batch mode in viewer with, setupexe –> faststoneviewer.exe

Misc Tools  JPEGsnoop_v1_8_0.zip & ExifDataView

2. Edit EXIF Data, in Batch Mode!!

Geo Tagging App, Freeware, BATCH UPDATE GEO DATA!!

                 Good Blog on how to use it

GeoTag from SourceForge, little newer

• install
• configure
• add photos, copy location from 1 photo to others, ect ect, AWESOME batch functionality!
  

Here is workflow to use it GetTag:

Here's the simplest solution. I wanted to geotag a batch of photos before uploading to Google My Business for SEO purposes. Now that Picasa is gone, my searches led me to lots of out-of-date software. I used the LATLONG site for latitude and longitude. In GEOTAG (uploaded a bunch of photos), I entered that info plus business name, town, description, etc. To copy info from the first to the last photo, hold the shift key and press the down arrown. All copied in the column! Get both free from here:

http://www.latlong.net/

A really good video on geotagging for business reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Xus6mFjq8&t=9s

preReq: GPSbabel (http://www.gpsbabel.org) and EXIFtool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool).

Then add paths

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabelfe.exe"

"C:\Work\Tools\Media\Imaging\EXIFViewer\exiftool(-k).exe"

• download
• rename to exiftool.exe
• save to c:\windows\system32
• set runas admin on props

Set settings

3. Via Tool tip per this article

Another ref

Open RegEdit

to this

II. Organize : Move Images into organizes Folder Structures

This is a supplement/extension to the existing post from June 2017, see here

After reviewing tools. I decided to use PhotoMove, instead of combining freeware tools like batch rename with files to folders. The low cost of PhotoMove allows me to save $ and use just 1 tool.

1. Remove Duplicates with VisiPics, See here for more links on Dup tools

2. Organize & Move Images into organized folders. using PhotoMove

Alternative: Freeware, combining freeware tools like “batch rename” with “files to folders” See full how to here:

3. I Still for batch rename files and folders, (Freeware tools)  use “batch rename” & “files to folders” individually as they are great tools

III. Edit & Upload to Google Photos

1. ABCDSee

2. LightRoom

3. Ect

and them publish photos to Google Photos

See google photos workflow here

IV. Misc Info on Menus

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg To give another real-life application, the default information displayed for JPG picture files are only the file type (JPG), the date taken, rating, the size of the picture (in pixels), and the size of the file. Or in other words, the registry Infotip entry contains the following properties by default: prop:System.ItemType;System.Photo.DateTaken;System.Keywords;*System.Photo.PeopleNames;System.Rating;*System.Image.Dimensions;*System.Size;System.Title I would like to display more information in the Windows Explorer infotip, so I changed the registry entry to: prop:System.ItemType;System.Photo.DateTaken;System.Keywords;*System.Photo.PeopleNames;System.Rating;*System.Image.Dimensions;*System.Size;System.PropGroup.Camera;System.Photo.CameraManufacturer;System.Photo.CameraModel;System.Photo.MeteringMode;System.Photo.ExposureProgram;System.Photo.ExposureBias;System.Photo.ExposureTime;System.Photo.FNumber;System.Photo.ISOSpeed;System.Photo.WhiteBalance;System.Photo.LensManufacturer;System.Photo.LensModel;System.Photo.FocalLengthInFilm;System.Photo.FocalLength;System.Photo.SubjectDistance;System.Photo.Flash;System.Photo.FlashEnergy;System.Photo.FlashManufacturer;System.Photo.FlashModel;System.Photo.LightSource;System.Title On my system changed: 20171004 from prop:System.ItemType;System.Photo.DateTaken;System.Keywords;*System.Photo.PeopleNames;System.Rating;*System.Image.Dimensions;*System.Size;System.Title to prop:System.ItemType;System.Photo.DateTaken;System.Keywords;*System.Photo.PeopleNames;System.Rating;*System.Image.Dimensions;*System.Size;System.PropGroup.Camera;System.Photo.CameraManufacturer;System.Photo.CameraModel;System.Photo.MeteringMode;System.Photo.ExposureProgram;System.Photo.ExposureBias;System.Photo.ExposureTime;System.Photo.FNumber;System.Photo.ISOSpeed;System.Photo.WhiteBalance;System.Photo.LensManufacturer;System.Photo.LensModel;System.Photo.FocalLengthInFilm;System.Photo.FocalLength;System.Photo.SubjectDistance;System.Photo.Flash;System.Photo.FlashEnergy;System.Photo.FlashManufacturer;System.Photo.FlashModel;System.Photo.LightSource;System.Title

Appendix : VisiPics Dup Test Results:

25 dups

15 dups

15 pics