Apologies for posting this questions, but I cant seem to find the right answer. I've looked on various pages and have conflicting information.
I would like to preserve the exif data in my images once I have manipulated them in Photoshop 7. I know that PS Save for web strips this out, but I read that using File, Save As, jpg preserved it. But it doesnt seem to work. Any answers greatfully received.
I've found that 'File, Save As.... (JPEG)' saves
most of the EXIF. But PS adds and subtracts EXIF fields. So you don't get exactly the same EXIF metadata that you started out with.
You can use Phil Harvey's EXIFTool to copy EXIF data from one image (the original) to another (the one that was saved from PhotoShop):
[Begin quotation]
Copy EXIF data from one image to another
Use ExifTool by Phil Harvey. (Windows users may get lucky by first installing the Perl interpreter from ActivePerl.)
Say you want to copy the EXIF header from file a.crw to a.jpg:
exiftool -TagsFromFile a.crw a.jpg
If you don't want to copy the Orientation field, then run:
exiftool -TagsFromFile a.crw --Orientation a.jpg
http://thomer.com/howtos/copy_exif.html
[End quotation]
I haven't tried this myself--I'm just passing this along. It would probably a be a real good idea to try this on
copies of your images, until you test it thoroughly.
Get EXIFTool from
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
(Contrary to the above advice, you don't need to install Perl before installing EXIFTool. EXIFTool is now a self standing .EXE file.)
