Stripping Exif

[*Mike*]

Anyone know the quickest, easiest way to strip exif from hi-res files? I've sold hi-res files from a wedding, but am planning on stripping out everything but the IPTC tags with our info.

Suggestions?

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by *Mike*

Anyone know the quickest, easiest way to strip exif from hi-res files? I've sold hi-res files from a wedding, but am planning on stripping out everything but the IPTC tags with our info.

Suggestions?

Save for Web in Photoshop strips it.

[OTRphoto]

save for web still leaves some stuff in mine that keeps my zune from recognizing the files. I've found that I can use the IRFANVIEW program to run a quick batch and it totally strips all info from the jpgs (you have to go into the jpg options and deselect everything first though)

[*Mike*]

Yeah, but that gives the little pop-up that the file is too big... Haven't played with it yet - can I just ignore it? Will it stop every image I run through an action if I batch 'em?

Sorry... I could probably go play around and get it figured out in a few minutes, but I thought someone may do this all the time.

Thanks!

[*Mike*]

Thanks Mel! I use irfan as my default jpg viewer, but I haven't used it for much else. Didn't even realize that it had batch capability... Thanks guys!

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by *Mike*

Yeah, but that gives the little pop-up that the file is too big... Haven't played with it yet - can I just ignore it? Will it stop every image I run through an action if I batch 'em?

Sorry... I could probably go play around and get it figured out in a few minutes, but I thought someone may do this all the time.

Thanks!

Actually, I use Lightroom to export anything these days. I actually leave my EXIF data in mine, so it hasn't been something that I had concerned myself with (although in LR, you can setup your metadata however you want prior to exporting I believe). For what you're wanting to accomplish, probably something like Infraview (noted above) may be a more straight forward way.

[rott]

Be CAREFUL:

#!/bin/sh

images=`find . -type f -iregex ".*\.jpg"`

i=0
while [ $i -lt ${#images[@]} ]
do
  chmod 644 ${images[$i]}
  jhead -purejpg -exonly ${images[$i]}
  let "i += 1"
done

[kenw]

good old PaintShop Pro: just don't check the "Save EXIF Data" when you do the JPG.....

see? some things can be really simple.

[UberPhLuBB]

Does batch processing using Irfan re-save the files, making them more lossy?

[carrbowl]

Scott Kelby's book The Adobe photoshop CS3 book shows you how to do it..pgs 66-67