So I recently switched from Picasa to PSE 7... In PSE your original is saved to your hardrive, the edited photo is saved in a PS file or Jpeg, then I want to resize for web to post to the forum... When I use the 'save for web' I lose the Exif...
How do I resize to a 900 x 600 pixel web size photo and retain exif?
So I recently switched from Picasa to PSE 7... In PSE your original is saved to your hardrive, the edited photo is saved in a PS file or Jpeg, then I want to also resize for web to post to the forum... When I use the 'save for web' I lose the Exif...
I feel like and idiot have to ask this.... but how do I resize to a 900 x 600 pixel web size photo and retain exif?
So I recently switched from Picasa to PSE 7... In PSE your original is saved to your hardrive, the edited photo is saved in a PS file or Jpeg, then I want to resize for web to post to the forum... When I use the 'save for web' I lose the Exif...
How do I resize to a 900 x 600 pixel web size photo and retain exif?
I do:
Before resizing I save the PP'ed file as named, then
Image >> Resize >> 800 at largest dimension (width or height) and preserve aspect ratio.
Immediately before saving I do a slight Unsharp Mask
File >> Save As >> [imagename.800.jpg]
I usually change the name to preserve the full-sized version
Upload that file to pbase
Link from pbase to PentaxForums.
I don't use Save for Web. EXIF is almost always attached.
Save for web strips the EXIF. You can make an action in PSE (I presume it supports actions) to make the resize a one button operation, and then, as Monochrome says, use the Save As.
For myself, the picture is more important than the EXIF data, so I use Save for Web.
I think the solution is to "Save As" and do the sizing there. I only have 6, and only use that as an external editor to Lightroom, so my "help" is worth exactly what you paid for it.
When you use "save for web", the EXIF data is stripped out. This save option is used to shrink the file size to the absolute minimum so it can be rendered on the web quickly. Even though the EXIF data is not huge, for this option, every little bit of space helps, so out it goes. Consider the "save for web" option the one you pick when creating thumbnails for a web page.
Canada-Rockies is right...use "save as" and your EXIF data should remain in tact.
Even though the EXIF data is not huge, for this option, every little bit of space helps
This is pretty much a holdover from the days of slow dialup Internet connections, when the small amount of extra space meant several seconds of waiting per picture. It's pretty silly today.
This is pretty much a holdover from the days of slow dialup Internet connections, when the small amount of extra space meant several seconds of waiting per picture. It's pretty silly today.
If you use a photohosting site that does resizing you can go that route. After PP'ing I save as a "10" level JPEG, usually keeping the same filename with the .jpg extension. I then just upload to my Smugmug account and then if I want to post here I choose the size that is closest to 800 along the longest side and post the photo. I have a similar problem in that I don't know how to get smugmug to export the exif, but if anyone wants that info, I either copy/paste it or more likely just direct them to the Smugmug photo which has all the info.
NaCl(of course you have to have a site that does the resizing)H2O
This is pretty much a holdover from the days of slow dialup Internet connections, when the small amount of extra space meant several seconds of waiting per picture. It's pretty silly today.
It still adds up. But I think the reason is more important: in a finished product like a web site, you don't want to expose technical background information. Exif can tell too much.
Of course, that isn't necessarily the case for the situation where the web site is about the pictures, rather than about something else which there happen to be pictures of. But we're a) a minority case and b) the people who should know how to do something about it.
