Clear EXIF Data?

Just a quick question. I am submitting a CD to one of my clients(for print only), should I clear the EXIF data out or let it stay?

Personally I clear it. That is my proof I own the ©.

Good Idea, thanks.

Persian-Rice and Conk,



This is a very good question "Clear EXIF Data?”



Why would you want to clear EXIF DATA? I would think that EXIF data would further support a claim that you have copyrights to the image. I am asking because I have been doing the opposite. I change the copyright status to copyrighted, and in the copy right description “not to be published or reproduce without my permission”.



Please let me know what you think.



Thanks



Jim

I could be wrong but I think they were referring to the camera stats in the EXIF such as aperture, shutter speed, etc.

Yes, I was refering to all the camera EXIF. Not the extra "Metadata" which is author and copyrights, I have those filled in.

It's a good way of keeping the only original copy to yourself. I have had 3 major clients and two wanted my work to be done in film, so I did it in film, but the latest guy wanted it on CD.

What's to say that I can't fill in your empty EXIF data with my own values and claim the picture as my own? That's a fairly trivial task. Now where's the proof?

I'd think that to claim the image as your own you'd have to keep the RAW and give the client anything but a RAW. Then you'd have a leg to stand on.

Thanks Persian-Rice, I was curious.

Great point. Can the exif data be changed in photoshop? Which program?

It doesn't look like PS can, but there's a ton of programs that can do so. I use ExifUtils which is a command line thing - it would be trivial to write a quick program to copy one images EXIF data to another.

A Google for "edit exif" should yield about 304,000 hits.


PS: I haven't forgotten about the other thing, I've just been too busy. Works stinks.

What other thing?

Conk- Didn't you get the memo? ....eep, I've said too much already...

Sorry. Over-worked brain got confused. Never mind.

To re-save a image in Photoshop will recompress your JPEG image file. It will loss more image detail and decrease image quality.

You could try DigitalFilm 1.65, it offers a EXIF editor tool which move the EXIF data from image without damage image.

http://www.opanda.com/​en/df/

Another tool, Opanda PowerExif Editor Pro allow to remove Exif data from image files as a batch.

http://www.opanda.com/​en/pe/

JX wrote in post #410639
Persian-Rice and Conk,

This is a very good question "Clear EXIF Data?”

Why would you want to clear EXIF DATA? I would think that EXIF data would further support a claim that you have copyrights to the image. I am asking because I have been doing the opposite. I change the copyright status to copyrighted, and in the copy right description “not to be published or reproduce without my permission”.



Please let me know what you think.



Thanks



Jim

I think what he is saying is that he will have the origional file with all of the data in it. I would register the image before giving them the file.