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EXIF / XMP Export

EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags allow for geocoding information to be stored invisibly within the image files. HoudahGeo supports JPEG photos as well as a wide variety of RAW formats.

Writing EXIF/XMP/IPTC tags to image files requires modifying the files. This process is lossless. Image quality is not affected. Modifying files is however not without risk. We thus recommend you always have backup copies.

HoudahGeo supports JPEG as well as a large selection of RAW formats. Please make use of the demo period to make sure HoudahGeo supports the image format produced by your camera.

Tag masters / originals:

When adding images from the HoudahGeo media browser, HoudahGeo will store the paths to both the master and preview image as managed by your photo library. With this option enabled, HoudahGeo will tag the files referenced by the master path. You will usually want to have this option checked.

HoudahGeo 3 differs from previous versions in that it actually stores the path to the master file as you add images to the project. This speeds up the process of geotagging: HoudahGeo no longer needs to search for the master files during export. It also gives you the option to check those paths before having HoudahGeo write EXIF/XMP tags.

Create copies:

With this option, HoudahGeo will create copies of your image files before tagging those copies. It will ask you where to save the copies.

Bypass XMP sidecars:

When XMP sidecars are present, HoudahGeo gives these priority over the actual image files: it will read from and write to the sidecars. With this option you may override this behavior and force HoudahGeo to write to the actual image files.

Always write XMP sidecar:

With this option checked, HoudahGeo will create sidecars for images that have no sidecars yet.

Write:

Check the properties that you would like HoudahGeo to write to the image files.

HoudahGeo offers the option to write timestamps back to image files. This updates timestamps with the camera time zone and clock error. Please be absolutely sure that the information is correct before committing it to file.


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Last updated on June 22, 2015

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