Batch modify image creation data

[James83448]

Im having some trouble changing the exif data for a set of 300 photos I have.

I want to change all of them to the same 'date created' as they all vary by several weeks.

Can anybody recommend a way that I can do this please?

 

[James83448]

I believe the bash command 'touch' will do what I want, but I'm not sure how I can get the terminal to apply the command to all images in the folder. The format of the image names is 'Imagex' where x is between 01 and 323.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I'm pretty sure that you'd have to install something like ExifTool to be able to do what you want. The date info modified by "touch" is not the EXIF info.

 

[James83448]

Thanks, I'll look into it when I get back from work.

 

[James83448]

After looking into that, it seems that you can only shift the creation date for all images, rather than set them all as the same value.

If I have many images with many different creation dates, there doesn't seem to be a way to set them all as the same date, as applying the shift, will shift all of the creation dates relative to each other.