How to copy EXIF tags from XMP to NEF with ExifTool

Adobe Lightroom only writes changes to Metadata such as geolocation into the XMP sidecar files and not directly into the EXIF tags of the image. If you add coordinates via the map module, then you will need to copy that information from the sidecar files back into your raw files (in my case Nikon NEF). …

How to install ExifTool with Composer

I’m working on a PHP project, that uses Phil Harveys excellent ExifTool to read Exif and XMP tags from photos. Since ExifTool is written in Perl, there is of course no composer.json to install this dependency directly with Composer. But you can create your own package information in your master composer.json as follows: { … …

How to create exif statistics for your photos

If you have Adobe Bridge, you can display statistics such as how many times you used a certain focal length or which ISO speeds you use the most. But what if you wanted to use this information in another application or post it on your blog? Unfortunately, Bridge doesn’t let you export that information (or …