If you import JPG files or other images in Lightroom which haven’t been captured by a camera or lost EXIF and other timestamp data, you can add a capture time this way:
- Go to grid view
- Select one or more image thumbs
- Choose Metadata > Edit capture time…
(there is also the option to automatically use the date when the file was created)
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As a kid I always hated it when someone sitched on the date function in a digital camera and every single picture had a yellow date on it. 😉
Nevertheless the function in Lightroom comes in very useful from time to time.