Retaining EXIF while resizing / optimizing JPGs?

[Boo]

Hi, as a web designer this may be of use.
http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/index.htm

Thanks, I have seen it before, but I'm afraid I'm a control freak, I like to both maniulate my own images and create my own HTML. My web sites are fully accessible and this is my area of specialism and I haven't seen any software that can touch my manual accuracy.

Phrases like this on their web page fill me with horror: "modifies images and generates HTML pages." That's the bit I like doing! With the photograhers web site I referred to that no doubt prompted your reply - the whole point was he wanted his thumbnail to be a selective crop of 100 x 74 pixels from part of an image that may have been a portrait format view much larger. I set the crop tool to the right proportions - selected just the bit of the image I thought gave a good taster of the final image, cropped, then re-sized to 100 px wide. No software can emulate those sorts of choices.

I do however use the excellent Easy Thumbnails from http://www.fookes.com for all my other thumbnail creation - but in this particular job, a bit more manual intervention and subtle control was required - it was worth it though, the site looks fab - so much so that I plan on re-doing some of my own pages the same way.

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Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography tutorial

 

[Fotonut]

Hi, as a web designer this may be of use.
http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/index.htm

Thanks, I have seen it before, but I'm afraid I'm a control freak,
I like to both maniulate my own images and create my own HTML. My
web sites are fully accessible and this is my area of specialism
and I haven't seen any software that can touch my manual accuracy.

Phrases like this on their web page fill me with horror: "modifies
images and generates HTML pages." That's the bit I like doing!
With the photograhers web site I referred to that no doubt prompted
your reply - the whole point was he wanted his thumbnail to be a
selective crop of 100 x 74 pixels from part of an image that may
have been a portrait format view much larger. I set the crop tool
to the right proportions - selected just the bit of the image I
thought gave a good taster of the final image, cropped, then
re-sized to 100 px wide. No software can emulate those sorts of
choices.

Did you check out the capability's of selective cropping of thumbnails, images and such.

I do however use the excellent Easy Thumbnails from
http://www.fookes.com for all my other thumbnail creation -

I have it here as well.

but in
this particular job, a bit more manual intervention and subtle
control was required - it was worth it though, the site looks fab -
so much so that I plan on re-doing some of my own pages the same
way.

--
Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography
tutorial

Greets.
Fotonut.
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Going, going, gone is the moment.

 

[Bernie37976]

Regards
Bernie

 

[Boo]

Did you check out the capability's of selective cropping of
thumbnails, images and such.

No, I didn't look past the first page. By virtue of the fact that in my previous posts I had been extolling the virtues of PhotoBrush for that very purpose, I don't feel I need to make any changes, I was very happy with the results I got, the accruacy of the crop, the quality of the re-sampling and the ease and reliability of use. Between the various applications I already use daily, the one you pointed to, at first glance, didn't appear to offer anything I didn't already have and was happy with.

--
Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography tutorial

 

[Fotonut]

Did you check out the capability's of selective cropping of
thumbnails, images and such.

No, I didn't look past the first page. By virtue of the fact that
in my previous posts I had been extolling the virtues of PhotoBrush
for that very purpose, I don't feel I need to make any changes, I
was very happy with the results I got, the accruacy of the crop,
the quality of the re-sampling and the ease and reliability of use.
Between the various applications I already use daily, the one you
pointed to, at first glance, didn't appear to offer anything I
didn't already have and was happy with.

--
Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography
tutorial

--
Going, going, gone is the moment.

 

[robinchee]

Just tried Photoshop 6.01, and it does not change the EXIF data at all.

So its strange, Photoshop 7.01 and ELements 2.0 change EXIF data. Photoshop 6.01 and Elements 1.0 don't change EXIF data. Neither does Neat Image.

Compupic Pro changes one line ... not sure whether its important though.

Qimage is the worst. Wipes it out almost entirely.
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With Adobe Photoshop 7.01 and Adobe Photo Elements 2.0, the EXIF
data is partially changed and partially removed.

With Adobe Photo Elements 1.0, the EXIF data is left totally intact
with no change at all. Nice thing is that my Photo Elements 1.0
came free with my Fuji S2Pro. Fortunately, I did not pay to
upgrade.

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Actually I think most current-generation image editing programs
have the option to retain EXIF data, so maybe you just need to
upgrade to the latest versions of your favorite tools.

 

[Doug Kerr]

Robin,

Qimage is the worst. Wipes it out almost entirely.

I'm not surporised - it's not really supposed to be an "editor" (although it can be handy for many operations).

It also doesn't translate the "manufacturer's parochial" exif items.

It's a great viewer, though It is my normal tool for that.

Doug Kerr

 

[ChefZiggy]

Just gave DCE AutoEnhance a try. I think I will buy it.

I have a bunch of pictures taken last weekend that turned out a little dark. (Outside, cloudy day, even using an external flash left a few too dark for my tastes.)

Within a couple of minutes I had a batch set up that greatly imptoved the shots, resized them and kept the EXIF data intact.

Unfortunately the trial version only does 5 images at a time.

The sample images can be seen at the link below.
http://www.pbase.com/chefziggy/dce_tests

Hello-

I've tried a few different resizing/optimizing utilities on my
pictures, but they all forget the EXIF information embedded in the
photo. Does anyone know of any that will resize/optimize and retain
the EXIF information?

Thanks.

TM

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Chefziggy
http://www.pbase.com/chefziggy

 

[Harry M136358]

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Thumbs Plus -- Its similar to ACDSee and works well including "batch" processing and renaming options as well as lossless rotation etc.
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602 & 4800