Viewing image metadata on Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt install imagemagick
identify -verbose my-image.jpg
Image:
  Filename: my-image.jpg
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Mime type: image/jpeg
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 959x1280+0+0
  Units: Undefined
  Colorspace: sRGB
  Type: TrueColor
  Base type: Undefined
  Endianness: Undefined
  Depth: 8-bit
  Channel depth:
    red: 8-bit
    green: 8-bit
    blue: 8-bit
  Channel statistics:
    Pixels: 1227520
    Red:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 143.904 (0.56433)
      standard deviation: 57.5508 (0.225689)
      kurtosis: -0.194535
      skewness: -0.794753
      entropy: 0.939995
    Green:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 131.366 (0.515162)
      standard deviation: 59.2677 (0.232422)
      kurtosis: -0.795058
      skewness: -0.326629
      entropy: 0.954883
    Blue:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 126.908 (0.497678)
      standard deviation: 59.5208 (0.233415)
      kurtosis: -0.99523
      skewness: -0.0626051
      entropy: 0.956083
  Image statistics:
    Overall:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 134.06 (0.525724)
      standard deviation: 58.7798 (0.230509)
      kurtosis: -0.792814
      skewness: -0.383003
      entropy: 0.950321
  Rendering intent: Perceptual
  Gamma: 0.454545
  Chromaticity:
    red primary: (0.64,0.33)
    green primary: (0.3,0.6)
    blue primary: (0.15,0.06)
    white point: (0.3127,0.329)
  Background color: white
  Border color: srgb(223,223,223)
  Matte color: grey74
  Transparent color: black
  Interlace: JPEG
  Intensity: Undefined
  Compose: Over
  Page geometry: 959x1280+0+0
  Dispose: Undefined
  Iterations: 0
  Compression: JPEG
  Quality: 72
  Orientation: Undefined
  Properties:
    date:create: 2024-10-26T16:19:51+00:00
    date:modify: 2024-10-26T16:19:15+00:00
    jpeg:colorspace: 2
    jpeg:sampling-factor: 2x2,1x1,1x1
    signature: f7876a34aa1a0f4d96c2746c7d6d15eba37611fd7f272aa7c7c3ac82d163a563
  Artifacts:
    filename: brat1.jpg
    verbose: true
  Tainted: False
  Filesize: 156335B
  Number pixels: 1227520
  Pixels per second: 53228800B
  User time: 0.020u
  Elapsed time: 0:01.023
  Version: ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org

Changing date/time

Tried this, but without a success:

convert my-image.jpg -set "date:create" "2023-10-26T16:19:51+00:00" output.jpg
identify -verbose output.jpg
Image:
  Filename: output.jpg
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Mime type: image/jpeg
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 959x1280+0+0
  Units: Undefined
  Colorspace: sRGB
  Type: TrueColor
  Base type: Undefined
  Endianness: Undefined
  Depth: 8-bit
  Channel depth:
    red: 8-bit
    green: 8-bit
    blue: 8-bit
  Channel statistics:
    Pixels: 1227520
    Red:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 143.911 (0.564356)
      standard deviation: 57.5158 (0.225552)
      kurtosis: -0.198909
      skewness: -0.79364
      entropy: 0.940451
    Green:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 131.367 (0.515164)
      standard deviation: 59.2565 (0.232379)
      kurtosis: -0.79579
      skewness: -0.326658
      entropy: 0.954928
    Blue:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 126.905 (0.497668)
      standard deviation: 59.5034 (0.233347)
      kurtosis: -0.997046
      skewness: -0.0629508
      entropy: 0.956157
  Image statistics:
    Overall:
      min: 0  (0)
      max: 255 (1)
      mean: 134.061 (0.525729)
      standard deviation: 58.7586 (0.230426)
      kurtosis: -0.794813
      skewness: -0.382768
      entropy: 0.950512
  Rendering intent: Perceptual
  Gamma: 0.454545
  Chromaticity:
    red primary: (0.64,0.33)
    green primary: (0.3,0.6)
    blue primary: (0.15,0.06)
    white point: (0.3127,0.329)
  Background color: white
  Border color: srgb(223,223,223)
  Matte color: grey74
  Transparent color: black
  Interlace: None
  Intensity: Undefined
  Compose: Over
  Page geometry: 959x1280+0+0
  Dispose: Undefined
  Iterations: 0
  Compression: JPEG
  Quality: 72
  Orientation: Undefined
  Properties:
    date:create: 2024-10-26T16:45:38+00:00
    date:modify: 2024-10-26T16:45:38+00:00
    jpeg:colorspace: 2
    jpeg:sampling-factor: 2x2,1x1,1x1
    signature: cf990748b4897f50475bc778c8838b4b4acc51f4dc38d49fef92a29bc8d6bce4
  Artifacts:
    filename: output.jpg
    verbose: true
  Tainted: False
  Filesize: 159199B
  Number pixels: 1227520
  Pixels per second: 89.9625MB
  User time: 0.010u
  Elapsed time: 0:01.013
  Version: ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org

why?

3 Responses to Viewing image metadata on Ubuntu 22.04

  1. dmitriano says:

    Can someone recommend an Exif editor?
    https://askubuntu.com/questions/9341/can-someone-recommend-an-exif-editor

    How to get/edit EXIF meta-data of multiple images?
    https://askubuntu.com/questions/101688/how-to-get-edit-exif-meta-data-of-multiple-images
    jhead -ts2012:10:29-10:28:03 *.jpg

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