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Metadata & Ratings

Metadata panel showing File Information, Camera Details, Author and Copyright, and Organization sections
The Metadata panel.

The Metadata panel shows everything RapidRAW knows about a photo and lets you rate, flag, label and tag it. Press I to open it. It works in both the library and the editor.

When several photos are selected, the changes you make here (rating, flag, label, tags, author fields) apply to all of them.

File Information

The file name, format, size in pixels, megapixels and capture date and time. Virtual copies show a VC badge.

Camera Details

Shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focal length, plus the lens. The focal length shown is the 35 mm equivalent, which makes photos from different sensor sizes easy to compare. A - means the file doesn't contain that value.

Click Creator Details to expand it. These fields can be edited:

Field Stored as
Title ImageDescription
Author Artist
Copyright Copyright
Comments UserComment

Click a field to edit it, press Enter to save or Escape to cancel. The values are stored in RapidRAW's sidecar and written into exported files when Save with Metadata is on. Your original file is not changed.

Tip: select all photos of a shoot and fill in Author and Copyright once.

Organization

Click Rating & Labels to expand it.

  • Rating: click a star. Click the current rating again to remove it. Next to the stars are the Pick and Reject flags.
  • Color Label: click a color. Click it again, or ×, to remove it.
  • Tags: type a tag and press Enter or click +. Click a tag to remove it. Your Tagging Shortcuts appear as buttons for one-click tagging. Tags are stored in lower case. AI tags show up here too when AI Tagging is on.

The keyboard shortcuts (1–5, Shift+P, X, U, Shift+1–Shift+5) do the same.

XMP sync

With Settings → General → XMP Metadata Sync on (the default), rating, color label and tags are also written to an .xmp file next to the photo, so Lightroom, Bridge, darktable and others can read them. RapidRAW reads them back in as well, so ratings you set elsewhere show up here.

  • The XMP file replaces the extension: DSC04512.ARW gets DSC04512.xmp.
  • A rejected photo is written as rating −1, the usual XMP convention.
  • RapidRAW only updates existing .xmp files unless Create Missing XMP Files is on.
  • Only rating, label and tags are exchanged. Lightroom develop settings are not imported.

GPS Location

Shown when the photo has location data: a map with a pin, plus latitude, longitude and altitude. Click the map to open the location in your browser. To remove the location from exported photos, keep Remove GPS Data on in Export.

Extended EXIF

All other EXIF fields, sorted alphabetically. Click a value to copy it.

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