Comment by ai_critic
Here, two incantations:
> exiftool -config exiftool.config -overwrite_original -z '-_custom1<=meta.json' cat.png
and
> exiftool -config exiftool.config -G1 -Tag_custom1 cat.png
You can (with AI help no less) figure out what `exiftool.config` should look like. `meta.json` is just your JSON from github.
Now go draw the rest of the owl. :)