It's not here, but on many sites, I've seen people striping the meta data of pictures, deliberately, for various purposes. But I've no idea, how they do it. It's not that I intend to do it, but I'm keen to understand, how to do it. I'm sure people here can help me with that.
Thanks!
Jagdeep Rajput
Posted by John Mumaw on August 16, 2013 at 10:21 AM
If you're using Photoshop and you use the 'Save for Web..' feature, that gives you the option of including or excluding metadata. Stripping out the metadata frees up space for more image pixels.
Posted by Keith Bauer on August 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM
The amount of data freed up from stripping metadata is extremely small. I just tried a quick test storing a jpeg with All metadata and with No metadata. All other parameters were exactly the same. The file with ALL metadata was 666K, the one with NO metadata was 663K.
Posted by David Bostedo on August 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Jagdeep - Were you talking about reading the metadata on photos that are posted to the web? Or removing the metadata from your own images?
If it's the first one, then there are many utilities available for browsers to read the metadata. Some googling for "web exif viewer" will reveal a lot of them either as plug-ins for browsers or stand alone programs.
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Jagdeep Rajput
If it's the first one, then there are many utilities available for browsers to read the metadata. Some googling for "web exif viewer" will reveal a lot of them either as plug-ins for browsers or stand alone programs.
Or this site can be fed an image URL and will show to the EXIF info. Here's and example result.
Jagdeep Rajput