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1. Re: Action to erase some File info
Mylenium Oct 21, 2010 3:43 AM (in response to Soula-55)Image viewers like XnView have stripping features for EXIF/IPTC and of course Bridge has a Replace Metadata option...
Mylenium
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2. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 21, 2010 7:00 AM (in response to Mylenium)Thanks Mylenium, I will check the XnView as you mention, but in principle, I would like to resolve my problem within Photoshop or the Bridge.
Yes, the Bridge does offer tools for metadata modification, but I was unable to find where I have to go to modify the camera info. Can you give me a clue as to where it is?
Also, I did not manage to create a "blank" info file that I can append to my picture, is there a way to do this?
Thanks again for taking the time to respond
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3. Re: Action to erase some File info
Mylenium Oct 21, 2010 7:26 AM (in response to Soula-55)I'm not sure if you are going about this the right way. Since that info is in the native EXIF/ IPTC data, the only way to get rid of it would be a force overwrite. So the metadata template cannot exactly be empty, but of course you can simply fill in nonsense data. Even then there may be some special things to observe, depending on what camera you use and what otehr data it produces. Using this method works reasonably on JPEG files I occasionalyl get, but it's possible it doesn't work on specific RAW or TIFF file types. In any case, make sure you force Bridge to embed the data rather than store sidecar XMP.
Mylenium
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4. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 21, 2010 10:36 AM (in response to Mylenium)Well, I checked again Bridge, under Tools where we can create templates and modify metadata. I do not see there the option to remove the camera info. Where else should I look?
What I did though, I opened the xmp file in the notepad, left it as is mostly, just removed the camera info manually and saved the template with another name. I then re-opened the file in Photoshop, and still ther camera info was present!! The question is, if I removed it from the xmp file, how come it can find this info? it seems that camera info is recorded somewhere else also. Weird!!!
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5. Re: Action to erase some File info
Silkrooster Oct 21, 2010 10:27 PM (in response to Soula-55)From reading this, it sounds like you are under the impression that you can rewrite a raw file. To my knowledge some of the metadata is stored in the raw file it self. What you add using a template is stored in the sidecar xmp file. Deleting the xmp file only deletes what has been altered leaving the original negitive in tact. That the whole point of a raw file, to make sure nothing happens to the original file. This is where raw files and dng's differ. Try converting the file to a dng and alter the meta data. you should have better luck. That being said, I have not tried what you are doing, so for all I know I could be full of hot air. Ouch...
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6. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 22, 2010 7:43 AM (in response to Silkrooster)The raw files (my files) will remain always as they are, but I have some psd files that I want to send to someone, and I do not want him to see the camera info within the File Info, when he opens those files in Photoshop. The other file info in xmp can remain as is, or is easily modified anyway. The problem is with the camera info.
So far, I was unable to do this in Photoshop or the Bridge in CS4
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7. Re: Action to erase some File info
Paul Riggott Oct 22, 2010 10:01 AM (in response to Soula-55)The best tool for manipulating metadata is Exiftool (It is a command line tool).
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
To remove the camera make and model from jpgs and tiff the command would be..
exiftool -Make= -Model= *.jpg *.tiff
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8. Re: Action to erase some File info
emil emil Oct 22, 2010 10:54 AM (in response to Soula-55)If you want to remove the camera info by using only Photoshop, have in mind that copy/paste and dragging layers to a new image with the same size will not carry the camera info. So you may try to automate this.
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9. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 22, 2010 11:10 AM (in response to emil emil)As I stated before, this is what I have been doing, but I want to keep the same file name as the original psd file, which is something that I have to do manually. I have not found a simple and fast way of doing this in a batch.
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10. Re: Action to erase some File info
emil emil Oct 22, 2010 11:20 AM (in response to Soula-55)How about File > Save for Web.
in the Metadata options you have some choices like "None" and "All Except Camra Info"
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11. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 22, 2010 11:38 AM (in response to emil emil)But, here the problem is that you cannot save large files for the web
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12. Re: Action to erase some File info
emil emil Oct 22, 2010 1:29 PM (in response to Soula-55)Soula-55 wrote:
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But, here the problem is that you cannot save large files for the web
You can, It just gives you a warning about the size not making sense for the web but I have no problem with very large sizes - I often just want to preview how my images look in browsers while still working on a multipurpose hi res version. The actual limitation there is not the size but the file formats.
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13. Re: Action to erase some File info
Paul Riggott Oct 22, 2010 2:09 PM (in response to Soula-55)There is a way of creating JPG's with no metadata files from psd, jpg, png, tif, gif files.
All you need is to create a new bitmapdata and export the file to that, here is a script that will do just this.
You just need to select the files you need converting ( the new files will be JPG's and quality 100) the will be placed into a new folder called "JPGnoMeta"
Once the script is installed the command will be available at the bottom of the Tools Menu.
#target bridge if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) { removeMETADAT = new MenuElement("command", "Remove metadata", "at the end of Tools"); } removeMETADAT.onSelect = function () { removeMetadata(); } function removeMetadata(){ var Path =app.document.presentationPath; var thumbs = app.document.getSelection("psd, jpg, png, tif, gif"); if(!thumbs.length) return; var JPGOUT = Folder(Path +"/JPGnoMeta"); if(!JPGOUT.exists) JPGOUT.create(); for(var i in thumbs){ if(!thumbs[i].spec instanceof File) continue; var thumb = thumbs[i]; var md = thumbs[i].synchronousMetadata; md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/"; var orientation = md.Orientation.replace(/(\w+)(\s+)(.)(\d+)(.)/,"$3$4"); if(orientation == 'Normal') orientation =0; var bm = new BitmapData(thumbs[i].spec); bm = bm.rotate(orientation); var parts = thumbs[i].name.match(/(.*)\.([^\.]+)/); bm.exportTo(new File(JPGOUT +"/"+ parts[1] +".jpg"),100); } allDone(); function allDone(){ var win = new Window( 'dialog', 'All Done' ); g = win.graphics; var myBrush = g.newBrush(g.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [0.99, 0.99, 0.99, 1]); g.backgroundColor = myBrush; win.alignChildren="column"; win.g10 = win.add('group'); win.g10.orientation = "column"; win.title = win.g10.add('statictext',undefined,'Thats All Folks'); win.title.alignment="bottom"; var g = win.title.graphics; g.font = ScriptUI.newFont("Georgia","BOLDITALIC",60); win.g10.add('button',undefined,'Ok'); win.center(); win.show() } } -
14. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 22, 2010 2:52 PM (in response to emil emil)Yes, you are absolutely right!!! It just did not occur to
me!!!!
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15. Re: Action to erase some File info
Soula-55 Oct 22, 2010 2:54 PM (in response to Soula-55)Thank you Emil and Paul, My problem is solved!!!!!
I appreciate your help and advise



