Maya loved photographing abandoned places. Her mirrorless camera shot beautiful RAW files, but each visit required different edits: one set needed heavy dust removal, another needed vivid color. To keep edits consistent she used XMP sidecar files created by her editing software — they stored her develop settings but weren’t embedded in the RAW files she shared with collaborators.
for %%f in (*.dng) do (
if exist "%%~nf.xmp" (
exiftool -tagsfromfile "%%~nf.xmp" -all:all -overwrite_original "%%f"
)
)
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