Image::...ortcuts(3)

💖 Image::...ortcuts(3) — bestie edition 💖

User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ (yes that's the manual name, we're keeping it cute and keeping it real)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Image::ExifTool::Shortcuts — the ExifTool shortcut tags, aka the little nicknames that save your whole entire life 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Okay so, real talk: this module is required by Image::ExifTool. Like, it's not optional, it's not a vibe you can skip, it just is. 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this module is literally the home of the definitions for tag name shortcuts that Image::ExifTool uses. And the best part?? You can customize this file to add your own shortcuts. Not me giving you full creative control, obsessed. 💖

Individual users may also add their own shortcuts to the .ExifTool_config file in their home directory (or the directory specified by the EXIFTOOL_HOME environment variable — iykyk, it goes where you tell it to go 🦋).

The shortcuts are defined in a hash called %Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Shortcuts. And here's the structure, listen up bestie:

• The keys of the hash are the shortcut names 📛
• The elements are either tag names or references to lists of tag names 🧚

Here's an example shortcut definition living in .ExifTool_config:

%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Shortcuts = (
    MyShortcut => ['createdate','exif:exposuretime','aperture'],
    MyAlias => 'FocalLengthIn35mmFormat',
);

In this example:

• MyShortcut is a shortcut for the CreateDate, EXIF:ExposureTime and Aperture tags ⭐
• MyAlias is a shortcut for FocalLengthIn35mmFormat 🌈

Now the ✨plot twist✨: the target tag names may contain an optional group name prefix. And a group name applied to the shortcut will be ignored for any target tag with a group name prefix. That's just how it works, no cap. 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) — thank you king 🙌

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Slay, open source behavior fr fr. 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓

This was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, from the Image::...ortcuts(3) page. bye babe, go make some shortcuts 💅✨