Now you are ready to extract your JPEG preview images ! Inside that folder, drag the ExifToolGUI.exe file to your desktop and you are pretty much ready to go !ĭouble click the ExifToolGUI.exe shortcut to open the interface.įirst check that you have what you need by going to Program > About (top left) and make sure that
EXIFTOOL GUI EDIT METADATA ZIP FILE
Once downloaded, open the zip file and the exiftoolgui folder (double click it). Now download the GUI interface from here. Or rename exiftool(-k).exe to exiftool.exe (=keep exe extension!) Rename exiftool(-k) to exiftool (=don't add exe extension!) Now, to use the GUI to make viewing a bit easier, particularly previews, what you need to do is: Much of which will not be particularly interesting or important, and some of which you won't have a clue about -) Phil Harvey's Exiftool is now 'installed' on your system and you can simply drag an image file onto the shortcut to view the file's EXIF.īeware, there will be a lot of information. exe suffix.Įither way, just drag the file to your desktop. Open the zip file and drag the exiftool(-k).exe file to your desktop.ĭepending on your computer configuration, the file may be called exiftool(-k) without the. Using the GUI depends on Phil Harvey's Exiftool being 'installed' first. The GUI also only allows extraction from CR2, DNG, NEF, NRW, RW2 & PEF files, as far as I'm aware. I don't have a Mac so cannot explain what to do. Sorry to those with a Mac, this is for Windows users.
EXIFTOOL GUI EDIT METADATA HOW TO
So, if interested, here is how to install and use both applications. I had used Exiftool before and found it very useful for finding all manner of information regarding an image file.Īnd having just tried the GUI, find it easier to do more. So he, Bogdan Hrastnik, created a graphical user interface (GUI) to make it so much easier to use. Which is what the author of Exiftool GUI thought too. However, whilst it is easy to drag and drop an image file onto the Exiftool executable to view EXIF, some may find it daunting to use the command line interface to extract thumbnails or JPEG previews embedded in raw files. Exiftool from Phil Harvey is a comprehensive tool to view and edit metadata associated with your image files.