RE: Image meta data

2011-09-15 Thread Greg Keogh
Sometimes stripping image metadata from a camera shot is a good thing. Before posting it on the internet, for instance, if you don't want data cross matching on camera ID, location, etc to happen. Often you don't care about it, but sometimes you do :) Yep! I read an article on this earlie

Re: Image meta data

2011-09-15 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, just a heads up. Last night I was tweaking some old code that scans > image files in folders and builds an “index” of them all in a SQLite DB. I > wanted to extract some of the meta data from the images and add them to my > tables, and

RE: Image meta data

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Thomas
I use Irfanview for ad hoc resizing, etc - it preserves the metadata. On the coding side, I use a DLL version of MediaInfo (the GUI is also useful - it installs as a shell extension) which gives more than enough info for images and videos, sound files, etc

Re: Image meta data

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Hurd
On 15 September 2011 11:03, Greg Keogh wrote: > OOOH! I just thought of something awful non-coding related ... What image > editing apps preserve the properties when you alter an image. I often use > the ancient ImageComposer 1.5 (anyone remember that?) and I know it loses > the properties on sav