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PoSmedley

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A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words

And Then Some

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(From Sam Terrapin's Blog at Skinartistry)

The next time you post a picture to the world wide web, you may want to ask yourself if that's all your posting. There's all that METaDATA that is attached to it as well.

For Windows only comes JPEG & PNG Stripper an extremely small portable application that strips the metadata out of JPEG and PNG image files.

From Lifehacker
"Why would you want to strip down an image file? Ask former TechTV host Cat Schwartz, who in 2003 received a rather embarrassing lesson in the power of metadata. In short, a cropped headshot posted on her blog contained an embedded, full-pic thumbnail with, well, a lot more than just a head and shoulders. Even if you're not cropping your mug out of a nude composition, there are others reasons you'd want to remove the metadata from an image. All sorts of information—like exposure time, aperture settings, camera used, and GPS coordinates—can potentially be embedded into an image."

As much as I work with stock images, I had no idea how much info was being stored in those images. GPS coordinates?!?! In order to verify all of this, I ran a little test that you can try to. I cropped an image and went to Camera Summary.com. I uploaded the cropped picture and let it do it's thing and show me all the MetaData. You can click on the results below for a larger image.

Not only did it pull the thumbnail out of the original image, it listed everything else. AND this picture was taken on my cell phone! Who knew my little cell phone camera stored so much info?! My cell phone did not list the GPS, but some cameras do.

The good news is there is JPEG & PNG Stripper to remove that data and it's FREE. (I love FREE software). The even better news is that you may already have software that will do the same thing.

While cropping my image, I discovered that Faststone Image Viewer will remove the Metadata as well. I tested it and uploaded the image to Camera Summary.com and the Metadata was gone, including the thumbnail.

So, there you have it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a few cropped pics of Lois Griffin I need to check for Metadata. Hubba-Hubba!

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It's not my fault he didn't want you.

And with the pre-nup there's no divorce settlement, neither, so you'd be better off with Zubaz...

... if you're game to be seen in public with a bloke ho wears zebra striped pants.

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PoSmedley

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It's not my fault he didn't want you.

Probably got upset over his post about everybody blowin him.

*iknow inknow but if I hadn't said it, someone else would have

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I had no idea. Most of my work until about ten years ago was on canvas so I appreciate the info. So I need to keep my original works hand painted. COOL PIC there PoSmedly. That is some what unsettling!

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I am allways afraid how much people don't know how much information are in there pictures.

With Vista you can see a little bit of them if you go to properties (eigenschaften) and than the tab details or if you have XP you can download a exifviewer-with them you see all the informations where you write about...

I use photofiltre portable,with this programm you can select if you want saving your picture with or without the exif(meta)data...

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