Scanned photos, a camera clock that was never set, or images that imported with today’s date all leave you with the wrong capture date. The catch is that some tools re-encode the image or wipe other fields when they touch the date. You want to correct the date and leave the pixels and the rest of the metadata exactly as they were.
Do it in Parergon
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Open your photos in Parergon
Drag in a single photo or a whole folder. Parergon reads the existing EXIF, IPTC and XMP so you can see the current dates before changing anything.
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Set or shift the date
Set an exact capture date (DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and friends), or shift a whole selection by a fixed amount. Apply it to one image or hundreds at once.
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Write the change
Review the selected date fields and standards before writing. Parergon limits batch date changes to the metadata standards you select.
Check the standards selected in the date operation before applying it; Parergon keeps unticked standards out of that batch write.
See the complete workflow: Fix broken photo and scan dates →
Go deeper: Read the complete guide to photo date management.