How can I edit EXIF orientation meta data?

April 11, 2008 8:47 AM

How can I edit EXIF orientation meta data?

I need to be able to explicitly set the orientation of a set of images for a test case I'm writing. I've burned through a bunch of tools this morning trying to find one that would let me do it:

• Exifer
• ABCView
• AttributeMagic
• Adobe Lightroom & Bridge
• Ifranview

along with a few command-line tools and scripts. It's entirely possible I missed something obvious, but few of the tools even displayed the Orientation data. None were willing to let me edit it.

Is there another tool or another way to set this without using a camera?

posted by yerfatma to computers & internet (3 comments total)

This program, found through Google, seems to do the trick. There's an option for changing the orientation data which takes numbers (i.e., one of my portrait orientation pictures has a value of "6").
posted by niles at 9:24 AM on April 11

Brilliant, that looks like it will do. Thanks.
posted by yerfatma at 10:33 AM on April 11

"exiftran" is what I used yesterday on Linux. T'was too easy.
posted by cmiller at 1:03 PM on April 11