Working with Exif data
Image metadata are known to be exceptionally hard to understand. There is a couple of reasons why is it so.
- Non-standard (custom) metadata
- Not following standards
- Bugs in written metadata
- Software interpretation
Exif Editor hides a lot of complexity behind the scene, and tries to have a really simple yet powerful user interface that will show only necessary information. However, very often, working with metadata is on trial-error basis, specially because of various interpretation of tags.
There is a couple of tips that should help you to understand and work better with metadata.
- File dates versus Exif dates
- Changing Maker name
- Reloading metadata in Adobe Lightroom