How do I edit the metadata of a photo?
Upload your image, then work on clearly-labelled fields, with no raw tag names. Click a value to edit it, add a common field, or remove one. Everything is staged until you apply, which produces a new, edited image.
What metadata fields can I edit?
- Author & copyright : credit yourself and assert rights across EXIF, IPTC and XMP at once.
- Date & 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 specifically (or keep it).
How do I add copyright and author in one click?
Save an identity in My profile (author, copyright, software) once, then apply it to any image with the Sign my image action, handy for photographers and e-commerce sellers batching many photos.
How is editing different from removing metadata?
Editing rewrites the fields you choose; removing clears them. If your goal is privacy, use the dedicated remove metadata tool. To simply read what a file contains first, open the EXIF & metadata viewer.
Which date field should you change?
A photo usually carries three. 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, and it changes every time software touches it.
The one you almost always mean is DateTimeOriginal: it is what photo libraries sort by. The trap is fixing it alone, because some programs group by CreateDate instead, leaving a library half corrected and harder to reason about than before. Set both, and let ModifyDate record the edit. The full procedure, including scanned photographs and whole trips shot with a wrong clock, is in how to change photo metadata.
Why every field is 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, and 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 is no longer there.
So this editor writes each logical field into EXIF, IPTC and XMP at once. It costs nothing and it is the difference between a field that survives the next program and one that quietly disappears. If you want to see which standard holds what, what EXIF data is lays it out.
What this editor will not change
Two things stay out of reach on purpose. The manufacturer's private block is written in a format its maker does not publish; we can remove it wholesale, but editing individual entries inside it would mean guessing, and a wrong guess corrupts the file. And the pixels are never touched: this is a metadata editor, not an image editor, so the photograph 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, as does every copy you already shared. That is worth remembering in both directions, because it is why correcting a wrong camera clock is legitimate, and why a date in a file is a claim rather than evidence.