Lightroom date editing question

[wellman]

I've got a pano which, when created, has no EXIF info. I brought the file into Lightroom and used the Edit Capture Time command from the Metadata menu and gave the photo a capture time. The info shows up in the Metadata section of LR. Problem is, once exported, the date doesn't make the EXIF headers in the exported JPG. Thus, my chronologically sorted gallery isn't sorted properly. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[jfriend]

I've got a pano which, when created, has no EXIF info. I brought the file into Lightroom and used the Edit Capture Time command from the Metadata menu and gave the photo a capture time. The info shows up in the Metadata section of LR. Problem is, once exported, the date doesn't make the EXIF headers in the exported JPG. Thus, my chronologically sorted gallery isn't sorted properly. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

You can use one of the EXIF editing tools to fix the JPEG directly. I've used Exifer (http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/) for this exact job (fixing EXIF on a pano). What I did in that case was asked Exifer to grab the Exif data from one of the source images and apply it to the pano. ExifTool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) and ExifToolGUI (http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm) is another option. All of these are free.

[wellman]

You can use one of the EXIF editing tools to fix the JPEG directly. I've used Exifer (http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/) for this exact job (fixing EXIF on a pano). What I did in that case was asked Exifer to grab the Exif data from one of the source images and apply it to the pano. ExifTool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/) and ExifToolGUI (http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm) is another option. All of these are free.

Thanks for the info. I've used Exifer with success in the past.

My main concern here is that the date modified in Lightroom is not making it into the EXIF of the exported image. Perhaps it's in another field SmugMug isn't parsing.

[jfriend]

Thanks for the info. I've used Exifer with success in the past.

My main concern here is that the date modified in Lightroom is not making it into the EXIF of the exported image. Perhaps it's in another field SmugMug isn't parsing.

You should take a look with one of the EXIF tools to see if it's a Lightroom issue of the date not being in the file or of Smugmug not seeing what is in the file. You may also have to set some of the other EXIF fields for Smugmug to be happy as the various date fields are a bit confusing.