Edit EXIF metadata in Elements

Hi
I have recently started to use Elements 8 and have discovered that some of my old photos have some corrupt EXIF data values (probably due to they having been processed by a series of different graphics programs).
Q: Is it possible to edit these EXIF values (e.g. Pixel X Dimension) from within Elements 8 ?
Regards
Geoff

I think Elements will allow you to edit tags, captions, notes, but probably not any of the other EXIF fields.
To edit other EXIF fields, you need something like (freeware) ExifTool and ExifToolGUI. (There are probably other software products that will allow you to edit other EXIF fields...)

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*“I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.”

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Working in iPhoto
Want to edit image using photoshop elements
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I uninstalled and reinstalled both iPhoto as well as Elements.
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And if CS4 can read the data of some files it should be capable of reading them all. Be sure to have the files completely cached first, can take a while.
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Hello,
I have the following scenario:
We have a central fileserver with a lot of marketing pictures. Our marketing people are looking for a solution to search pictures by data stored in the EXIF-metadata of the jpeg-files.
So I like to integrate this fileserver as a repository in KM, set up an index and let TREX do the search (as of note 663630 TREX can search the EXIF-Data of JPEG-Files).
As goodie I want to give the marketing people the possibility to browse through the pictures in an image gallery. This gallery should be consisting of a query-based taxonomy where all the pictures are sorted by special EXIF-data (e.g. name of the photographer).
Until now I have integrated the fileserver (as a FS-Repository) and create an index.
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TREX SPS16 Patch 2
KMC SPS16 Patch 2
Greetings from Berlin, Germany
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Greetings to Berlin,
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Regards, Karsten

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