How to remove metadata from photos

[sijus]

As you all know, cameras attach exif metadata to photos. The exif contains mostly innocent details such as exposure program and lens focal length, but also potentially privacy compromising info such as the camera serial number, and in cameras whit built-in GPS, such as the iPhone, also the location. To remove exif in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can right click on a file and select Properties, and in the Details tab click on Remove Properties and Personal Information. You will than be able to remove all possible properties, or selectively remove few of them. Windows XP users can use this freeware to remove exif metadata.

 

[pellicle]

Hi

I use irfanview, its freeware and for the windows platform one of the invaluable tools. You can do it at resize (and of course save to a different file) or using the "JPEG Lossless" operations. essentially you uncheck this option?

and all exif information is stripped

 

[pellicle]

looking more carefully at your post, I see you weren't actually asking a question, and with only one post to your name I wonder if you're actually just advertising that product

interesting

 

[Lee L]

In linux at the command line:

mogrify -strip imagename.jpg

This is part of the free, open source, "imagemagick" program.

 

[liam.robillard]

pellicle, unfortunately IrfanView leaves a lot of hidden metadata. Even the Photoshop's Save for Web feature leaves hidden traces, like App Ducky and so on. To completety remove all the photographic metadata, you need a specialized tool, like Dead Link Removed, or old good console ExifTool by a great man Phil Harvey.

 

[IloveTLRs]

Is there an OS X program that will do this?

 

[McFortner]

Real handy when you want to steal somebody's work and remove their copyright info from the EXIF....

 

[liam.robillard]

Is there an OS X program that will do this?

AFAIK, ExifTool by Phil Harvey is cross platform and works on Mac OS X (did not try it by my own).

Real handy when you want to steal somebody's work and remove their copyright info from the EXIF....

A lot of things may be used with evil intentions - it depends on people. So if you want to protect your works, perhaps EXIF is not the best hook to rely on.

 

[Diapositivo]

looking more carefully at your post, I see you weren't actually asking a question, and with only one post to your name I wonder if you're actually just advertising that product
interesting

Frankly as the product he would be - in case - advertising is a free and useful one (I already knew and use it) I think that advertising would be a good service to the community anyway. If people work free for us, let at least their work to be known.

There can be very good and legitimate reasons to want to strip EXIF metadata. I routinely strip metadata from images I send to stock agencies. My digital work is done with a Sony DSC-R1 camera. This is a very particular camera, with a Carl Zeiss fixed lens of extremely high quality, which is due to the fact that the lens is fixed (the last lens arrives at 2 millimetres from the sensor, it is not a retrofocus scheme).

The camera is perfectly capable of professional quality images, and my images are accepted at various agencies. Being unfortunately sold as DSC the name might imply it belongs to the "amateurial" range produced by Sony. Somebody, now or in the future, final client or agency, might decide to batch discard images produced by Sony DSC-something cameras or not to accept them.

I prefer technical quality of my images to be judged on their technical merits rather than on their EXIF data. So I just remove the EXIF data (with BatchPurifier).

Cheers
Fabrizio

 

[RalphLambrecht]

As you all know, cameras attach exif metadata to photos. The exif contains mostly innocent details such as exposure program and lens focal length, but also potentially privacy compromising info such as the camera serial number, and in cameras whit built-in GPS, such as the iPhone, also the location. To remove exif in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can right click on a file and select Properties, and in the Details tab click on Remove Properties and Personal Information. You will than be able to remove all possible properties, or selectively remove few of them. Windows XP users can use this freeware to remove exif metadata.

you can delete or edit meta data in adobe bridge;not free,but part of CS,CC and free as trial.

 

[Lee L]

Was reading back over this thread after a long absence.

Imagemagick will purge all EXIF data with a simple command, but I forgot to mention in my earlier post that it's free and available for linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, and other platforms.

Lee

 

[OzJohn]

Quick and dirty solution. If you have no suitable software to hand and need to strip metadata just save the image in .bmp format then resave the bitmap in any other desired format. The bitmap format is lossless although huge and AFAIK has no capacity to save any sort of metadata. OzJohn

 

[toyotadesigner]

You can use XNview MP for Mac OS X. It does have an Exif editor built-in.