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Metadata editor: edit photo metadata online
Drop a photo to change its date, author, copyright or description, or delete the fields you don't want. Every change is written to a new copy; your original stays as it was.
- Deleted right after analysis
- Original never modified
- No sign-up
Your original file is never modified. Every action produces a new image.
How do I edit the metadata of a photo?
- Drop the photo into the editor above, choose a file, or paste an image URL.
- Click a value to change it, add a common field such as author or copyright, or remove a field you don’t want.
- Review the pending changes, then apply them. The editor writes a new copy and reads it back, so the report shows what actually changed.
- Download the edited copy when you are happy with it.
Nothing is written until you apply, and nothing downloads until you ask.
What metadata fields can I edit?
- Author and copyright: credit yourself and state your rights in EXIF, IPTC and XMP at once.
- Date and time: change the capture or creation date (DateTimeOriginal).
- Description & keywords: add a caption or tags for cataloguing.
- Software: set or correct the declared creator tool.
- GPS: remove the location on its own, or keep it.
How do I sign several photos with the same details?
Fill in your author and copyright once, then tick the save box. Your browser keeps them, so the next photo opens with the fields already filled.
For a whole shoot, click Clean many files and the same details go into every file in one pass.
How is editing different from removing metadata?
Editing rewrites the fields you choose; removing clears them. If your goal is privacy, use the metadata remover. To read what a file contains first, open the photo metadata viewer.
Which date field should you change?
A photo usually carries three, and they mean different things.
- DateTimeOriginal is when the shutter fired.
- CreateDate is when this file was created, often the same moment.
- ModifyDate is when the file was last written. It changes every time software touches it.
The one you almost always mean is DateTimeOriginal, because that is what photo libraries sort by.
The trap is fixing it alone. Some programs group by CreateDate instead, which leaves a library half corrected and harder to reason about than before. Set both, and let ModifyDate record the edit.
For the full procedure, including scanned photographs and whole trips shot with a wrong clock, see how to change photo metadata.
Why is every field written three times?
EXIF, IPTC and XMP coexist in the same file, and the same fact can live in all three. Different programs read different ones.
A copyright notice written into XMP alone shows as empty in a program that reads IPTC. Worse, the next time that program saves the file, it may write its own empty value over yours.
That is the usual reason a credit line you set last year has gone missing.
So this editor writes each field into EXIF, IPTC and XMP at once. It costs nothing, and it is what lets a field survive the next program that opens the file.
To see which standard holds what, what EXIF data is lays it out.
What will this editor not change?
Two things stay out of reach on purpose.
The manufacturer’s private block (the maker notes) is written in a format its maker never publishes. We can remove it wholesale, but editing individual entries would mean guessing, and a wrong guess corrupts the file.
The pixels are never touched. This is a metadata editor, not an image editor, so the image data you download is byte for byte the one you uploaded.
Editing metadata changes what a file says about itself. It does not rewrite history. Your original still holds the real values, and so does every copy you already shared.
That cuts both ways. It is why correcting a wrong camera clock is legitimate, and why a date in a file is a claim rather than evidence.