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Marie Anti
 

Photoshop 7 not collecting camera info


For about 4 or 5 months now when I am sent a photo by email and I save it in Photoshop 7.0, it does not collect all the data. It will only show the dates, sizes and lets you know it is a JPEG. When I download my own photos all the info is gathered and available.......camera, flash, shutter speed, ISO, aperture and on and on.

I cannot figure out why this is no longer happening with other peoples photos. Is it their camera not allowing this info to be seen, or is it Photoshop not allowing the newer cameras info.
Frustrated


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May 08, 2008

 

Russell E. Smith
  One possible explanation is that whoever is sending the photos has discovered "save for web" in photoshop (or some equivilant) when that is used to downsize a photo, it strips the exif (camera) data.


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May 08, 2008

 

Marie Anti
  I mentioned that and she said her program as to "save" or "save as". Save to the web is not in it. Thank you for your reply though.
Hopefully someone can come up with an answer. I cannot get through to Adobe to aske this question.


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May 09, 2008

 
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  Your own downloads are original files.
I don't know of anything that keeps original data when it's re-saved.


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May 10, 2008

 

Russell E. Smith
  Marie, one way to test the theory of photoshop being to old to read the newer camera's exif data - is to go to the adobe site and download a trial version of elements 6 and then check your photos with the newer program.
I admit, it might take some time - but it might also be faster then waiting for Adobe to answer you (I have waited a couple of weeks before).
I run both CS2 and elements 6 (because I was to cheap to upgrade to CS3 and had elements 6 on the wife's laptop - good thing too, because CS2 wont read RAW files from my 40D).
Anyway, I hope you get it figured out.


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May 11, 2008

 
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