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p.1 #1 · Need help with missing EXIF data

I wanted to upload this pic to the Weekly board, but after crop and resize, it no longer has the EXIF data. How do I go about putting that information back into this pic?

Dumb question, I know, but I'm old. Humor me, OK?

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Nov 15, 2009 at 04:50 PM

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p.1 #2 · Need help with missing EXIF data

I don't know how to put it back. What tool did you use? In Photoshop a crop and resize will not lose the EXIF data. The trick to keeping the EXIF data is to save the file as a jpeg but *not* using the save for web option. The save for web option shrinks the output file as much as possible, including removing the EXIF and color space info.

Nov 15, 2009 at 06:22 PM

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p.1 #3 · Need help with missing EXIF data

I used Photoshop to crop but I have never figured out how to resize in Photoshop. So I use a little program named PIXresizer. Just type in the size and it does the rest. I have never figured out how to do that in Photoshop without screwing it up.

Any instructions?

Nov 15, 2009 at 06:32 PM

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p.1 #4 · Need help with missing EXIF data

Resizing in Photoshop is easy, as long as you are careful about having the Constrain Proportions box checked. I'm including three partial screen captures that show changing an image from one with the longest dimension of 800 pixels to one with a longest dimension of 640 pixels.

Note that when you enter 640 into the height that was 800, the width is automatically reduced to 531 which retains the proportions of the image.

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Nov 15, 2009 at 07:23 PM

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p.1 #5 · Need help with missing EXIF data

Karen, thanks. The thing I noticed is that on my screen there was no way to adjust the pixel dimensions. On your screen, I saw that the Resample Image box was checked. When I placed the checkmark in that box, my screen then matched yours. And I changed the width to 640 and did a Save As with a new file name.

Ah, the simple things in life. Sometimes they just sneak by.

Thank you.

Nov 15, 2009 at 07:39 PM

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p.1 #6 · Need help with missing EXIF data

Oh, and typing Resize Image into the Help dialogue box in CS3 returns 32 entries, none of which addresses what you just displayed.

Nov 15, 2009 at 07:40 PM

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p.1 #7 · Need help with missing EXIF data

Pandacat wrote:
Oh, and typing Resize Image into the Help dialogue box in CS3 returns 32 entries, none of which addresses what you just displayed.

Helpful hint of the day:

I've never found the PS help dialogue very useful. When I want a Photoshop question answered I nearly always have better luck with a proper Google search.

Nov 15, 2009 at 08:13 PM


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