hi there,
I was wondering if it is possible to hide the exif data from my pics, but keep my name for copyright purposes. If yes, which is the easiest way to do it?
There are tools that allow you to edit the exif so you could strip out everything you don't want someone to see and leave your copyright info. I don't think you can do it if you strip out all the exif data such as using "Save for web" in Photoshop.
Josh Cowling
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Pinjarra, Western Australia, Australia
I'm sure there are a lot of ways to do this, but here is my version:
Using Photo shop on PC,
1-press ctrl+N to open a new canvas,
2-in the dialogue box that opens click on the little arrow in the preset box and choose the document you already have open and click OK
3-Holding down the shift key click on your image and drag it into your new canvas
4- press ctrl+E to merge
all your EXIF data will be gone, you just have to record a new action to put your copyright info into your new canvas
Frozen Instant Imagery wrote: If you are using Photoshop, then Save For Web allows you to specify what EXIF data to write to the JPEG.
Thank you, I didn't know that. I always had it set to strip the exif data and didn't realize you could specify what data to keep using the metadata pull down.
You can also just deselect whatever data you don't want to show in the metadata section in PS when you do a regular Save; you don't have to use Save For Web. Go through the tabs and uncheck whatever you want hidden and fill in whatever you want to show.
Valenten Photography wrote: it'd be great to have a way to automate the removal fo such data...
There is. Uncheck the fields you don't want to show in the FIle Info section and then batch-process whatever pictures you want to have that exif attached to. If you have pictures that already have data that you do not want showing, batch the new setup over them.
There is. Uncheck the fields you don't want to show in the FIle Info section and then batch-process whatever pictures you want to have that exif attached to. If you have pictures that already have data that you do not want showing, batch the new setup over them.
Eh right now I'm not sure to follow you (do you mean batch-processing with the above mentioned softwares?), but it's probably because it's late. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info
ME_ wrote: There is. Uncheck the fields you don't want to show in the FIle Info section and then batch-process whatever pictures you want to have that exif attached to. If you have pictures that already have data that you do not want showing, batch the new setup over them.
Valenten Photography wrote: Eh right now I'm not sure to follow you (do you mean batch-processing with the above mentioned softwares?), but it's probably because it's late. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info
Yes - I'm talking about in PS - go to File > File Info and set it up as you want it. Then create an action to apply that particular File Info to one picture. Then File > Automate > Batch to apply that same action to a batch of pictures.
ME_ wrote: There is. Uncheck the fields you don't want to show in the FIle Info section and then batch-process whatever pictures you want to have that exif attached to. If you have pictures that already have data that you do not want showing, batch the new setup over them.
Yes - I'm talking about in PS - go to File > File Info and set it up as you want it. Then create an action to apply that particular File Info to one picture. Then File > Automate > Batch to apply that same action to a batch of pictures.
Ah alright (better in the morning lol), thank you very much !!
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