You'll see the Change Time Taken dialog box, which you can use to modify the date or adjust for a different time zone. Then right-click and choose Change Time Taken. To do either of those things, open Photo Gallery and select one or more photos. Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you do two things that you can't do with Windows on its own: change the time associated with the "Date taken" field, and also batch edit the "Date taken" field for several photos at once. (In fact, Windows Live Photo Gallery is an improvement over the version in Vista, so Vista users might want to switch as well.) It comes with Windows Vista, or you can download a free version, called Windows Live Photo Gallery, for Windows XP. Change the Date in Windows Photo GalleryĪll you need is Windows Photo Gallery.
Is there a way to fix that? There sure is! But you might need some extra software for that. Now all your photos will be offset by time difference between home (where you set the camera's clock) and where you shot the photos. Suppose you were on vacation in a different time zone. Sometimes you do care about the time, though.
That's usually not a big deal you probably don’t care if the photo claims it was taken at 4:30PM or 7:30PM. Note that you can't change the time that the photo was taken, though. Just click in the date and change it to anything you like. Next, find the Origin section (it should be near the top) and you should see the "Date taken" field. You should see the date on the General tab, but there's nothing we can do there. Open the folder that contains the photo, right-click the file, and choose Properties. If you notice that one of your photos has an incorrect date, you can modify it right within Windows.
This week, let's see how to fix the date if your camera was not set properly when you shot a batch of photos. In the past, I've told you how to remove the date stamp from the corner of your photo (" Get Rid of That Ugly Date Stamp"). (See " Organize Your Photos" for some tips on how to do that.) If a picture's date is incorrect, good luck finding it when you browse your digital collection. That makes it all the more important for the photo metadata to be accurate, though. Unlike my parents and their shelf of photo albums filled with sticky pages and clear covers, I have virtually instant access to every photo I've taken in the past 15 years. Here in the digital age, we are pretty spoiled.