Is it my camera or cs3 ??

For some reason all my photos no longer seem to have exif data in them. I recently upgraded to a new laptop running Windows 7 and have CS3 loaded on it. I don't remember there being any setting in CS3 that needs to be turned on, but I may be wrong.

Can anyone tell me why this might have happened? Have I missed a setting in CS3 or my camera (40d)?

I appreciate any help with this.

If you're using Save For Web, the Exif data gets stripped. I believe there is an option added in CS4 to keep the Exif, but I don't believe that option is in CS3.

tonylong wrote in post #9610776
If you're using Save For Web, the Exif data gets stripped. I believe there is an option added in CS4 to keep the Exif, but I don't believe that opton is in CS3.

I have always used Save As --> jpeg

Does anyone know if CS4 definitely gives you the option to keep it?

Mr. Bill wrote in post #9610785
I have always used Save As --> jpeg

Does anyone know if CS4 definitely gives you the option to keep it?

Well, that doesn't sound right. What format is the image to start with. And, when you load it into PS and check File/Info, what Data do you see?

Mr. Bill wrote in post #9610785
I have always used Save As --> jpeg

Does anyone know if CS4 definitely gives you the option to keep it?

You have 3/4 different choices in a drop down menu.

Ok, this is really starting to bug me. Why all of a sudden is it not providing exif data? The only things that have changed are:
1. the computer = I reloaded CS3 from scratch when I got the new laptop (win 7 64bit) with no errors during install.
2. USB card reader = since new laptop doesn't have built in card reader, bought a Rocketfish Highspeed card reader.

Any other ideas or things I can check? Really can't afford to buy CS4 just for the exif.

Bill, a little trouble-shooting:

Are these Raw files to begin with or jpegs?

In Bridge, for the original file, if you Right-Click (or click File) and select File Info the exif dialog appears and if you click on the Camera Data 1 property you should see your basic shooting info. Does this show (for the original file)? It should also show when you open it in Photoshop. Is this happening?

If you open the file in ACR, key parts of the shooting Exif should show on the upper right below the histogram also -- is this happening?

Keep checkin gin -- usually a "mystery" is just a simple answer we haven't found the question for.

tonylong wrote in post #9617611
Bill, a little trouble-shooting:

Are these Raw files to begin with or jpegs?

In Bridge, for the original file, if you Right-Click (or click File) and select File Info the exif dialog appears and if you click on the Camera Data 1 property you should see your basic shooting info. Does this show (for the original file)? It should also show when you open it in Photoshop. Is this happening?

If you open the file in ACR, key parts of the shooting Exif should show on the upper right below the histogram also -- is this happening?

Keep checkin gin -- usually a "mystery" is just a simple answer we haven't found the question for.

Tony,

I am using both RAW and jpeg files and when I open them up in CS3 and check the File info it is there. I then save them using "save as" and rename them.

Also, when I open them in Bridge it shows all the info as well, but after I post them from sites like photobucket and flickr, they are not there. And yes I checked Flickr settings to make sure that the exif is used. I checked some of my older photos on both of those sites and they show the data, it's just the new ones that are missing. This is what makes me believe it has to do with the new computer maybe.

I appreciate your help.

Well, here's things to check out. First, right after you save the jpeg out of Photoshop, go to the jpeg in your Windows file browser and right-click on it and open Properties. Go to the Detailed panel -- if there's an Advanced button click it. What do you see?

If there is Exif data there, but not when you upload it to Flickr, then Flickr is stripping your Exif.

To test this out, save a jpeg at Web size and file size specs for POTN (150KB max) and upload it here using the Attach function, and upload the same file to Flickr and post it to here. We will be able to read the Exif (if any) from both images.

Found out what the problem is.

So what I was doing was uploading the original sized file and linking back to a smaller version to meet POTN rules. The smaller version is getting stripped. Guess I will start uploading to Flickr the 1024 size instead.

Thanks for your help Tony