Can anyone write me a Plug-in?

I am looking for what I believe would be a very simple plug-in to write. In PS7 and CS Photoshop renders an image based on the EXIF data that may or may not be in the image. Could a plug-in be written to ignore this EXIF data and open my images like normal (ignoring all EXIF data)? (note: Adobe is aware of this issue and also has a plug-in and setting in CS to ignore color space data in EXIF tags but not resolution data!) Example: Most any image off a newer digital camera has EXIF data embedded. When Photoshop 7 or CS opens one of these images it renders the images to the resolution tag in this data. So any other program that does not recognize this data (InDesign for example) see the image @ 28" X 21" @ 72dpi but Photoshop 7 or CS opens the same image at 3" X 2" @ 300dpi if 300dpi is in the EXIF info. This is causing us a lot of trouble when we receive InDesign pages from customers and image proof the images for these pages in PS 7 or CS and then try and relink to the proofed images in InDesign. Could anyone write a plug-in to make PS 7 and CS ignore EXIF data? Of course we will be willing to pay a reasonable fee for this service. Please respond to

thanks,
beav

beav wrote:

I am looking for what I believe would be a very simple plug-in to write. In PS7 and CS Photoshop renders an image based on the EXIF data that may or may not be in the image. Could a plug-in be written to ignore this EXIF data and open my images like normal (ignoring all EXIF data)? (note: Adobe is aware of this issue and also has a plug-in and setting in CS to ignore color space data in EXIF tags but not resolution data!) Example: Most any image off a newer digital camera has EXIF data embedded. When Photoshop 7 or CS opens one of these images it renders the images to the resolution tag in this data. So any other program that does not recognize this data (InDesign for example) see the image @ 28" X 21" @ 72dpi but Photoshop 7 or CS opens the same image at 3" X 2" @ 300dpi if 300dpi is in the EXIF info. This is causing us a lot of trouble when we receive InDesign pages from customers and image proof the images for these pages in PS 7 or CS and then try and relink to the proofed images in InDesign. Could anyone write a plug-in to make PS 7 and CS ignore EXIF data? Of course we will be willing to pay a reasonable fee for this service. Please respond to

thanks,
beav

You can do that with Irfanview.
Edit/ conversion rename and uncheck "keep the EXIF data"
Stephan

You can do that with Irfanview.
Edit/ conversion rename and uncheck "keep the EXIF data" Stephan

You can do that with Irfanview.
Edit/ conversion rename and uncheck "keep the EXIF data"
Stephan

Thanks for the suggestion Stephan but I need to eliminate the issue all together not come up with a workaround. I work in a very high volume (5000+ images of this type a day) environment and do not have time to open each image twice. We are currently removing PS7 and CS from machines and going back to PS6 to fix the issue. I should also not that this only effects images placed in Indesign.

You can do that with Irfanview.
Edit/ conversion rename and uncheck "keep the EXIF data"
Stephan

Thanks for the suggestion Stephan but I need to eliminate the issue all together not come up with a workaround. I work in a very high volume (5000+ images of this type a day) environment and do not have time to open each image twice. We are currently removing PS7 and CS from machines and going back to PS6 to fix the issue. I should also not that this only effects images placed in Indesign.

You don’t need to open any image
You open irfanview (1 second) you hit B for batch rename/conversion (1 second)
You point to a folder and enter your parameters (once, Irfan will remember next time)
and click start
So three or four seconds of clicking and then watch Irfan race through the conversion process, it is incredibly fast.
You can ask Irfan to overwrite the files in the same folder or create a destination folder, up to you.
Give it a try, Irfan is a free download and a must have as a complement to PS.

Stephan