Great Tool, But nott for Beginners

I have scanned in thousands of old files, but needed to cahnge the origional picture date and add in the catagory information so that it would be easy to import into iPhoto.

There are a ton of EXIF and other setttings in this app. The issue is that they don’t have good discripters on them and no hover over to tell you what they do. So for beginners this will be difficult.

I found it took a bit of trial and error on a few test files to get it righ, but once I figured it out, I could set all the file with the standare EXIF data that was all the same, and then go back and specificly edit the group data for each set of negatives as needed.

Be aware that it does take a bit of time for the app to go through and update the data. I can see from the report genderated that it is about 3 to 15 sec per file depeniding on how may fields are updated.

The program does keep an origional file, so that you can undo the changes, but be aware that this is a full copy, so for me with TIFF scans, this was approx 150 MB per file. That will eat up your disk space fast.

The GeoTag feature is nice to have, but keep in mind it is a pure map base corodinate system. Unlike iPhoto or other apps, you can’t search for a spacific location or POI. You will need to navigate the map to the proper location, or endter the coordinates you need. There is an Auto GeoTag time shift feature that makes GMT offset easy, but I ddin’t feel that it was needed.

Overall a solid app that does what it says. Great for advanceand users, but should novice users may want to stear clear.

After I added the files to iPhoto, I was very pleased. All the EXIF data came right it and it placedd the fiels in the porper groups and date order.

mrjirey about ExifChanger