Exif Edit

The Edit photo properties (exif) view is used to show and edit properties of photos. These photo properties are used by Filter-View to find photos.

See also:

• define Virtual ALbums
• autoprocessing
• pc android meta sync
• Example: Take photos on android, autoprocessing (rename and add exif while move), transfer to pc

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Edit photo properties (exif, xmp)

You can reach Edit Photo Properties (Exif) via

• Image-View via the Edit Exif menu.
• Gallery-View in multi selection mode via the Edit Exif menu.
• ".apm"-AutoProcessingRule-File editor where you can define which photo properties (exif-metadata) should be added to to the image.
• Form any android app that supports "edit" jpg

Note: While Extended App Pinning is active potentially harmfull operations (i.e. edit exif) are not available

Features:

• Title a short text/header about the photo

  • Note: If title starts with "+" then the value is appended to the current value if the current value does not contain the text yet.
    • Example usecase:
      • first you select all holiday photos and add as title "holiday on crete"
      • then you select the harbour photos of that holiday and set "+ at harbour"
        • some photo will get "holiday on crete at harbour"
  • Note: Twitter-like tagging: you can add/assign tags to the photo using #tagName If you enter a "#" character the Tags opens where you can filter/select/add a text that also becomes a tag.
    • if you enter a value in the tag-filter field and press ok the filter value will be added to the edit and you create and add a new tag, if it doesnot exist yet.
    • if you enter a value in the tag-filter field and press cancle no tag is inserted, created or assigned.
    • if tap on a tag in the list the tag dialog closes and the selected tag will be added to the edit and you create and add a new tag, if it doesnot exist yet.

• Description a longer text as description of the photo

  • Note: If Description starts with "+" see title.
  • Note: Twitter-like tagging with "#" see title.

• Rating a quality value for the photo. 5=best, 1=worst, 0=unknown

• Date when the photo was taken.

  • you can pick the date with the first "..." button.
  • you can pick the time with the second "..." button.
  • you can enter date in the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss .
  • Example:
    • "2007-12-24T12:34:56" means december 24th, 2007 34 minutes and 56 seconds past 12 o'clock (noon).
  • Note: In multi selection mode the datetime value change is relative.
    • Example for relative datetime change (i.e. you forgot to set the camera date):
      • you have selected 3 photos that initally have these date values: 2001-01-01T04:11:52, 2001-01-03T08:06:05, 2001-01-04T09:12:08
      • Edit Photo Properties (Exif) initially shows datetime of first selected photo: 2001-01-01T04:11:52
      • you change datetime to 2017-07-03T14:22:52. You added 16 years 6 months 2 days 10 hours and 11 minutes.
      • after applying the changes with the datetime values of all selected photo will added 16 years 6 months 2 days 10 hours and 11 minutes.
      • the new values will become 2017-07-03T14:22:52, 2017-07-05T18:17:05, 2017-07-06T19:23:08

• Visibility public/private (new in version 0.6.3)

  • Public images are visible in any Gallery-app/Photo-Picker that use the android-system-media-database.
  • Private images are only visible in "A Photo Manager" if the in private images are enabled in the filter.
    • technically private images are filename.jpg files renamed to filename.jpg-p that get an additional TAG "PRIVATE".
  • In the Edit Photo Properties (Exif) you can make a public image private (and vice versa) by selecting Public or Private.
  • "Public" or "Private" can be stored in Virtual Albums/Bookmark-filter-files and ".apm"-AutoProcessingRule-Files.
  • See also #100

• Tags (aka keywords, categories, searchtearm) You can edit tags of the selected image(s) with the "..." button.

• Latitude and Longitude geo info where the photo was taken.

  • you can pick the location with the "..." button.

• or "Ok" button takes the changes and apply them to current/selected photos.

• or "Cancel" button or the back button closes the the view without affecting the photos.

Note: When you tab the history button at the end of an edit field you get a popup where you can select one of the 10 previous values.

Intent-API

• action=EDIT
• mime="image/*"
• extra[android.intent.extra.TITLE string]
• data=file:{/path/path/.../file.ext} or extra[android.intent.extra.STREAM]=file:{/path/path/.../file.ext}
  • example file:/storage/sdcard0/copy/hello.jpg
• data=content:/external/images/media/{id} or extra[android.intent.extra.STREAM]=content:/external/images/media/{id}
  • opens image belonging to {id} in Exif-Edit
  • example content:/external/images/media/52173
    • opens image with id=52173