Beyond the camera data, photos carry XMP and IPTC blocks with captions, keywords, creator and licensing information. Load an image to read all of it.
XMP vs IPTC
IPTC is the older press standard — headline, caption, keywords, byline, credit, source, city, country and copyright notice. XMP is Adobe's XML-based successor, written by Lightroom, Photoshop, Bridge and Capture One; it carries the same descriptive fields plus ratings, labels, edit history, rights statements and licensor URLs. Many files contain both, and this tool shows each in its own table.
What you can read
- Title, headline and description / caption
- Keywords and hierarchical subject tags
- Creator, credit line, source and job identifier
- Copyright notice, rights usage terms and web statement URL
- Location — city, state, country, sublocation
- Rating, colour label and edit software
How to view it
- Drop a JPEG, TIFF or PNG above.
- Scroll to the XMP and IPTC groups in the results.
- Export everything with JSON file or CSV file.
Checking image licensing
Stock and press photos often state their licence in XMP rights fields. If you need to know who owns an image or how it may be used, those tags — rights, UsageTerms, WebStatement, Credit — are the place to look, when the photographer filled them in.