Seeing Your Photo s Metadata (EXIF Info)

Seeing Your Photo's Metadata (EXIF Info)

When you take a photo with a digital camera, a host of information about that photo is embedded into the photo by the camera itself. It contains just about everything, including the make and model of the camera that took the photo, the exact time the photo was taken, what the f-stop setting was, what the focal length of the lens was, and whether or not the flash fired when you took the shot. You can view all this info (called Exchangeable Image File [EXIF] dataalso known as metadata) from right within the Organizer. Here's how:

Step One

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To view a photo's EXIF data, first click on the photo in the Photo Browser, and then click the Show or Hide Properties button at the bottom-left side of the Photo Browser window to show the Properties palette.

Step Two

When the Properties palette appears in the bottom-right corner of the Organize Bin, click the Metadata button at the top of the palette (it's the fourth button from the left). This shows an abbreviated version of the photo's EXIF data (basically, the make, model, ISO, exposure, f-stop, focal length of the lens, and the status of the flash). Of course, the camera embeds much more info than this. To see the full EXIF data, under the View section at the bottom of the palette, just select Complete and you'll get more information on this file than you'd probably ever want to know. One thing that isn't displayed in the Brief section that you probably might want to know is the date and time the photo was taken, and to see that you will have to open the Complete view.