{"id":1382,"date":"2018-11-17T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:17:08","slug":"organize-photos-with-exiftool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/organize-photos-with-exiftool\/","title":{"rendered":"organize photos with exiftool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I organize images in a custom hierarchy of directories. Lately, I’ve been using Google Photos and its shared albums to share photos with family. When I download the photos from the album that others have contributed, I want to organize those photos based on who<\/em> contributed them. Google photos doesn’t make that easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, cameras embed their make and model into each picture that they take, and since nearly everyone uses a different model of smartphone or camera, it is easy to separate out the images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Windows Explorer allows me to add the model of the camera for an image in the details view. Then I can sort on the model, and break out the photos into a separate subdirectory for each contributor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

On Linux, I haven’t found an easy way to do the same thing — i.e. Gnome’s file manager, Nautilus, is anemic in comparison, as are other Linux alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Recently, I found exiftool<\/a>, and it solves the problem for me, at a command-line level (it works on Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, and others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Test adding the model of camera to image (e.g. Canon EOS Rebel XIV)

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exiftool -p -v1 '-testname<$model %f.%e' *.jpg<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Do it for real:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
exiftool -p -v1 '-filename<$model %f.%e' *.jpg<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The final task is to remove the model name from the image. E.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
rename 's\/Canon EOS Rebel XIV \/\/' *.jpg<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Exiftool can do so much more, including organize images into subdirectories. This examples organizes images in the current directory into year-month-date directories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
exiftool -preserve -d \"%Y-%m-%d\" \"-directory<filemodifydate\" \"-directory<createdate\" \"-directory<datetimeoriginal\" .\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I organize images in a custom hierarchy of directories. Lately, I’ve been using Google Photos and its shared albums to share photos with family. When I download the photos from the album that others have contributed, I want to organize those photos based on who contributed them. Google photos doesn’t make that easy. Fortunately, cameras … <\/p>\n
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