Strip that EXIF info from .jpg files!

Heres some software that I found to be excellent. Its shareware, but it hasnt quit working in 4 months now. If it did I'd pay for it. DzSoft Quick Web Photo Resizer. It strips all EXIF info and outputs the photo's in 3 popular web sizes. I think the most important thing it does though, is the pictures are drastically reduced in byte size without any noticable loss to picture quality. I think we can all appreciate that. It would save the server owners money in bandwidth costs.

If anyone cares to look its here. Quick Photo Resizer - Resize your digital photos and JPEG images

It also allows you to add your own watermark.

Thought this thread deserved a bump.

I was on a site where someone had posted a picture they shouldn't have. The camera was a Canon and it inserted the serial number of the camera.

Personally I wouldn't worry too much about it unless you have registered the camera in your name (warranty, software etc).

Still, I think it is a good idea to get rid of this info if you can. Not because of security issues but because it can reduce file size for some of us on slower connections.

Remember if you use Photoshop then "save for web"

The only data contained in EXIF is resolution, focal length, aperture, ISO, date taken, etc. There is nothing to identify the photo as taken by your camera save for the manufacturer and model. There are no other identification numbers stored in the EXIF.

Perhaps in your experience .... today. Tomorrow may be another story. Are you in the business of research and development of digital recording devices?



jv

Right, I'm only talking about today's digital cameras. Who knows what Big Brother will be up to in a few years though.

All I meant to say was, EXIF data in photos isn't as scary as it sounds.

Nice, real nice!!
Thanks for the post and the quick write up!

just for the geeks.

yum install imagemagick
mogrify -strip *.jpg

Though BP is totally right, there's no reason to worry about it imo.

Actually, I take that back. After wiking it (despite their blackout), apparently, and this doesn't surprise me, some fools decided it would be wicked awesome to put GPS info on them.

...probably to automatically update their facebook from their iphones without having to pay any real attention to their actual facebook page where they have 3000 'friends', who have no idea since they're now auto-facebooking as well.

It great that our phones have such intimate relationships with us.


Although it could be pretty sweet for a guerrilla op.
Stick a plant in the ground, take a picture. Walk a bit.
Stick a plant in the ground, take a picture. Walk a bit.
repeat

Then you have dispersed plants, complete with the GPS coordinates

Yeah, isn't modern technology just soooo fucking great!

O .... and that guerrilla grow location would be sweet, for you .... and all others that might have access to the data