I am putting Title & Caption onto my photos in Lightroom, then exporting them as JPEG. Later in my workflow I am using ImageMagick (through a .NET library) to process these images. I can retrieve the EXIF Profile and get the caption from the "ImageDescription" tag, but I can't seem to find the Title in there anywhere. Does anyone know where Lightroom puts the Title into the image data?
I looked through all 49 EXIF values, but none contained the string I put in for Title. Caption was present though, along with everything else I expected (lens info, date, camera, copyright).
I grabbed an image and added a title (MUPPETRY
) and description (PUPPETRY
) in Adobe Lightroom using the metadata panel like this and then exported as JPEG:
In case you are wondering, I chose silly names for near certain uniqueness.
It seems that Lightroom puts the title and caption in the IPTC section. You can tell that by using:
exiftool -G0 export.jpg | grep UPPETRY
[EXIF] Image Description : PUPPETRY
[IPTC] Object Name : MUPPETRY
[IPTC] Caption-Abstract : PUPPETRY
[XMP] Title : MUPPETRY
[XMP] Description : PUPPETRY
On Windows, use FINDSTR
instead of grep
.
You can extract them with exiftool
like this:
exiftool -IPTC:Caption-Abstract -IPTC:ObjectName export.jpg
Caption-Abstract : PUPPETRY
Object Name : MUPPETRY
Or, more succinctly:
exiftool -Title -Description export.jpg
Title : MUPPETRY
Description : PUPPETRY
Or, if you just want the value in a bash
variable, use the -short
option like this:
title=$(exiftool -s3 -Title export.jpg)
echo $title
MUPPETRY
If you want to see IPTC metadata with ImageMagick, use this to discover all the data:
magick export.jpg IPTCTEXT:-
1#90#City="%G"
2#0="�"
2#5#Image Name="MUPPETRY"
2#120#Caption="PUPPETRY"
You can then see the field numbers of the ones you want and extract just those:
identify -format "%[IPTC:2:5]" export.jpg
MUPPETRY
identify -format "%[IPTC:2:120]" export.jpg
PUPPETRY