Edit EXIF Data Online — Add Author, Copyright, GPS & More
EXIF metadata stores not just technical camera data but also editorial fields: a title or description, the photographer’s name, a copyright statement, the GPS coordinates, and the software used to process the image. This tool lets you read and rewrite those fields in any JPEG photo — entirely in your browser, with no upload and no quality loss.
What fields can you edit?
- Description / Title (ImageDescription, tag 270) — a text description of the image. Displayed by Windows Explorer, macOS Preview, Lightroom, and many CMS platforms.
- Author / Artist (Artist, tag 315) — the photographer’s name. Used by stock agencies and media asset management systems to attribute ownership.
- Copyright (Copyright, tag 33432) — a rights statement. Embed this on every image you distribute commercially to make your ownership unambiguous to anyone who inspects the file.
- Software (Software, tag 305) — the editing application name. Some photographers clear this to avoid revealing their post-processing workflow.
- Dates — DateTimeOriginal, DateTimeDigitized, and DateTime. The same fields that the EXIF Date Changer handles — available here alongside the other editors.
- GPS — set or override the latitude and longitude, or clear all GPS fields before sharing a photo publicly.
- Camera Make & Model — the manufacturer and model string. Useful if you’ve imported scanned film and want to annotate which camera was used.
Does editing EXIF affect image quality?
No. Only the EXIF APP1 segment of the JPEG file is rewritten. The compressed image data — the DCT coefficients that determine visual quality — is completely untouched. The output file is the same size as the original (plus or minus a few hundred bytes from the updated EXIF block).
Why add copyright to your photos?
Embedding a copyright notice in the EXIF makes it harder for image scrapers and aggregators to claim ignorance of ownership. While copyright law applies regardless of whether you embed the notice, having it present in the file provides a clear paper trail and makes licensing claims easier to substantiate. Combined with the IPTC Copyright Notice field (editable via the IPTC Metadata Viewer’s companion tool), this gives you two layers of embedded attribution.
Related tools
- Use EXIF Date Changer for a focused date-only editing workflow.
- Use Remove GPS from Photo to strip only the GPS IFD without touching other fields.
- Use EXIF Metadata Viewer to verify the changes after downloading.