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Image Metadata Editor

Change the date a photo was taken, put your name and copyright on it, correct the camera, or clear the GPS coordinates. The pixels are copied through untouched, so nothing is re-compressed. Nothing is uploaded.

Drop a JPEG here

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JPEG only — EXIF is a JPEG format • Max 30MB

Editing metadata without touching the picture

A JPEG is a sequence of marker segments: some hold metadata, one holds the compressed image itself. Editing metadata correctly means replacing the metadata segment and copying every other byte through unchanged.

That is what happens here, and it is why the result is lossless. Tools that redraw the photo to change a caption cost you a generation of JPEG compression every time. Correct a date three times that way and you have re-compressed the image three times for no reason.

What you can change

  • Description, artist, copyright — the fields that travel with your work when it is shared.
  • Camera make, model, lens, software — useful when a scan or an export wrote the wrong thing.
  • Date taken — the common repair, for a camera whose clock was never set or was in the wrong time zone.
  • GPS coordinates — set them, correct them, or clear them entirely.

Leaving a box empty writes nothing for that field. Loading a photo that has no EXIF at all is fine too — the block is created from scratch.

Editing, removing and reading are different jobs

  • Want to know what a file carries? EXIF viewer.
  • About to post publicly and want everything gone? Remove EXIF — it strips the lot, which is safer than clearing fields one at a time.
  • Want to keep the photo but fix or add specific fields? This page.

Why JPEG only

EXIF is defined for JPEG and TIFF. PNG and WebP have their own metadata containers, which far fewer applications read or write — an edited PNG would carry fields most software silently ignores. If your image is PNG or WebP, convert it to JPEG first, accepting that the conversion itself is lossy.

A note on honesty

Photo metadata gets treated as evidence — by insurers, marketplaces and journalists — precisely because most people do not realise how easily it is rewritten. Correcting a camera clock is repair. Backdating a photograph you then present as proof of something is not. The tool cannot tell the difference; you can.

Frequently asked questions

Will the edited file still open everywhere?

Yes. Only the metadata segment is replaced and the structure stays valid, so any viewer that opened the original opens the edited copy.

Does it keep the fields I did not edit?

The block is rewritten from the fields shown on this page, so tags outside that set — exposure, ISO, focal length — are not carried over. If those matter, keep the original alongside the edited copy.

Can I edit many photos at once?

One at a time here. For a whole folder, ExifTool on the desktop is the right tool.

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