How to hide Camera settings

[Terry W]

Hello.

Can anyone please help me. I know that you can right click on properties on a photo and see what Camera and setting are used. I'm told there is a way of stopping other people from looking at my settings in properties can anyone please tell me how is it done?

Many thanks, Terry.

[Tannin]

There are lots of ways. A very simple one is to save as BMP, then open it and save as JPG.

[erniehatt]

Terry, use the save for web setting. Ernie

[Keith Reeder]

I would say though, that not being able to see the EXIF data of a picture drives me nuts.

I don't know why anyone would want to deliberately hide them....

[Green Fields]

Rotating using Windows Picture & Fax Viewer destroys EXIF information if I remember correctly.

[Terry W]

I would say though, that not being able to see the EXIF data of a picture drives me nuts.

I don't know why anyone would want to deliberately hide them....

Hello Keith.

I can see your point and to a degree I agree with you, but why do so many others do so?

Thanks anyway to you, Tannin, Ernie & Ollie.

Terry.

[Keith Reeder]

but why do so many others do so?

Hi Terry,

it's more likely that other folk just end up without EXIF in their pictures because they're using the Save to Web option in Photoshop, which dumps the EXIF to reduce the size of the file.

But being able to see the EXIF is really useful in many ways.

It helps people to see how you got a great picture; it helps people figure out why a picture is maybe not so great; and - to me anyway - it's just plain interesting and educational.

[Austin Thomas]

Hi Keith,

I agree that EXIF data would be very interesting. I also didn't know that EXIF data was available on BF images. I have just tried right clicking on a random selction of images on the BF and I didn't see any EXIF data. I have tried your most recent images as well and see no EXIF.

Am I doing something wrong? Right clicking on the image and clicking properties.

Thanks for your help

Austin

[Roy C]

Hi Keith,

I agree that EXIF data would be very interesting. I also didn't know that EXIF data was available on BF images. I have just tried right clicking on a random selction of images on the BF and I didn't see any EXIF data. I have tried your most recent images as well and see no EXIF.

Am I doing something wrong? Right clicking on the image and clicking properties.

Thanks for your help

Austin
Austin, you need to have software installed to see the EXIF data with a right click - or save a copy of the photo and open it in, say,photoshop where you can see the EXIF data.

[Austin Thomas]

Thanks Roy, Which software do I need to see the EXIF with a right click?

Austin

[Roy C]

Rotating using Windows Picture & Fax Viewer destroys EXIF information if I remember correctly.

Does this work on a tiff file? I am interested because I use CS2 to produce HDR images from a single RAW but this can only be done by stripping out the EXIF data. At the moment I use 'save for the web' at the highest possible image quality jpeg but would like to be able strip the info out of a Tiff.

[Roy C]

Thanks Roy, Which software do I need to see the EXIF with a right click?

Austin
Over to Keith on that one - I think he uses some Firefox add on.

[tdodd]

IEXIF is a free addin that allows right-click viewing of exif data, where it is present, both within Internet Explorer/Firefox and Windows Explorer....

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html

[Terry W]

Hi Terry,

it's more likely that other folk just end up without EXIF in their pictures because they're using the Save to Web option in Photoshop, which dumps the EXIF to reduce the size of the file.

But being able to see the EXIF is really useful in many ways.

It helps people to see how you got a great picture; it helps people figure out why a picture is maybe not so great; and - to me anyway - it's just plain interesting and educational.

Hello Keith.

After thinking about it now and what you've said I don't think I will bother to take it out. I know that I've learned a lot by looking at other peoples photos and the way they take them. So thanks for all the help that you have giving me on the subject.

Many thanks, Terry.

[Tannin]

BTW, I agree with Keith: I hate not being able to see the EXIF info. So I'm pleased to see that you have changed your mind. :)

[Austin Thomas]

Thanks Roy, Thanks Tdodd,

That has shed a lot of light regarding camera settings. The download appears to work fine.

Thanks again,

Austin

[Leo S]

It's a shame there is not an option to save with EXIF data when saving for web... I would certainly use it!

[IanF]

It's a shame there is not an option to save with EXIF data when saving for web... I would certainly use it!

If you use 'save as' and adjust compression instead of 'save for web' exif is retained.

[Leo S]

I used to save that way, but "save for web" seems so much more versatile, and I'm not sure if it's just me, but the quality seems better for any given file size. Perhaps I will have to re-experiment a bit.

[Roy C]

I used to save that way, but "save for web" seems so much more versatile, and I'm not sure if it's just me, but the quality seems better for any given file size. Perhaps I will have to re-experiment a bit.
I find the exact opposite - using 'save for the web' I cannot get the same quality as a simple jpeg resized to about 800 pixels and saved at quality 6. For this reason I never use 'save for the web'.

[Harlequinduck]

I'm glad to see the positive support to the idea of presenting EXIF. If it wasn't for this possitive tool I and others would have given up on digiscoping awile ago.