OT: Photoshop jpeg: How not to show metadata?

XPUser2003 wrote on 1/18/2004, 6:07 PM
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way in Photoshop in which a .psd file can be saved as a jpeg file without all those metadata included? I just edited an image of a friend and when I opened it in Irfanview, all the data showed up in image properties: f-stops, flash ON, camera version- Photoshop! etc...

I know she will know I've edited it but I just don't want it to be so obvious that I did. Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply.

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rextilleon wrote on 1/18/2004, 7:11 PM
When you download your pics to your hard drive, there are usually two folders---With my Canon--(I shoot in RAW usually) I have Raw files in one folder and in the other folder I have a file with a .ctg extension---that carries the metadata-----Check and see what happens when you get rid of that file.
ArmyVideo wrote on 1/18/2004, 7:37 PM
XP,
I can't speak for earlier versions of PhotoShop, but CS makes it very easy to remove any metadata. If you go to FILE> FILE INFO, then click on ADVANCED in the left menu window, it will bring up all the categories of metadata that are or can be embedded into the image (PDF, TIFF, XMP, CORE). Simply click on each of these one at a time, and then click on delete at the bottom of the FILE INFO window.
There are several programs out there that let you remove metadata from jpgs, but most seem to be for MACs. The few I found for PCs (
) ran about $35, which is $35 more than I would spend since PS will do it for me.
Most consumer image viewing / editing programs (I.e., MS Photo editor) that will be used by those not in the VI business won't display the metadata anyway though.

Hope this helped,
Brian
P.S. Let us know if this happens to work in earlier versions of PS
XPUser2003 wrote on 1/18/2004, 10:05 PM
Rex and Brian

Thanks a lot for your time. I found the answer after several hit-and-miss experimentation. The trick, so it seems, is to use "File/Save for Web..." This results in a jpeg file (other formats being png and gif) where the revealing metadata had been rid of. What the resulting jpeg contained would be the file name, extension (jpeg), file size (MB), color mode and pixel dimensions. This will do for me. So long as the camera name, software and other EXIF data are gone, I'll be happy!

I got Photoshop 7 at home which doesn't have the Advanced Tab for the File Info dialog box. The one on CS you mentioned looks like the straightforward way to achieve what I wanted, though. Will have to try this My digital camera produces only jpegs not raw so there's no other file containing .ctg extensions.

Best regards

XPUser2003