The photo panel

Read and edit a photo's date, settings, location, description, rating, copyright and keywords.

Click a photo in the grid to open its panel on the right. The photo stays in view next to it. Click ⤢ View full image, double-click a tile, or press Space for the full-screen view; Esc closes it.

Editing a value

Click a value, type, and press Return. Edits wait until you save: the panel shows Save changes and Discard for this photo, and the bar at the bottom offers Save all for every changed photo. See How ExifXplorer changes your files.

The sections

• Date & time: when the photo was taken. Click it to change the date or time with the picker. To correct a whole shoot at once, use Shift timestamps… instead (Editing many photos).
• Camera & lens and Exposure: camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed and ISO.
• GPS & location: a small map, the coordinates and the place name. Click the map to move the pin there, or drag the pin. For a photo without GPS, type the latitude and longitude, or use Map and GPX. The place name is looked up automatically from the coordinates.
• Title & caption: the same fields Lightroom, Bridge and Photos use.
• Rating & label: click a star to rate; click the same star again to clear it. Click a color to label the photo, again to clear.
• Copyright & IPTC: copyright and creator. If you’ve set your own in Settings ▸ Metadata, Use my copyright & artist fills both in one click.
• Keywords: see below.
• Maker notes: the camera’s own settings in plain English. See Maker notes and the focus point.

Keywords

Type in Type to add or search vocabulary… and press Return. As you type, keywords you’ve used before are suggested. Click a keyword’s ✕ to remove it.

Keyword sets are reusable lists, such as “Wildlife” or a client’s standard tags. Choose one from the list under the keywords, then click any keyword in it to add it to the photo. The first nine are numbered: press 1 to 9 to add that keyword to the open photo without touching the mouse, even in the full-screen view. Combined with the arrow keys, you can tag a whole shoot from the keyboard. + Save all to set adds this photo’s keywords to the set; + New keyword set… starts a new one. To add a whole set to many photos, select them and use Apply keyword set….

Copying a value to other photos

Every value can be dragged: grab it by the ⠿ grip and drop it on another photo to copy just that value. Drop it on a selected photo to copy it to the whole selection. ⠿ drag group beside a section title copies the whole section, such as all of GPS & location. Each copy can be undone. See Editing many photos at once for copying several sections from a reference photo.