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I’m testing Photoshop CS2 and Adobe PS Elements and have come across the following situation where Adobe programs overwrite EXIF data in order to lock out graphics editing programs from other vendors.
See also the following post dated 2003 complaining about the same sort of thing:
http://groups.google.ch/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse _frm/thread/18689dfea46fbd56/2134e142858ed6aa?lnk=st&q=e xif+photoshop&rnum=3&hl=de#2134e142858ed6aa
or http://tinyurl.com/dms9y
This is how anyone can reconstruct the problem: Take the following image from Adobe’s web site:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/images/a bout_adobe_main.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/ank2z
Use Irfan View (see http://www.irfanview.com) or any other respectable editor to change the IPTC Caption field of this image (in Irfanview press "i" and click in IPTC). This is the field that photographers use to describe what is in the photo and it is also the field that Web generators use for captioning the photo when automatically generating photo galleries on the web.
Import this file into Bridge or PS Elements and watch how the capture field is updated correctly. If the Thumbnail already exists in Bridge or Elements you might have to press Crtl-Shift-U in Elements or F5 in Bridge to update the thumbnails and metadata.
If you subsequently change the IPTC Capture field using another program (eg. Irfanview) these changes will be reflected correctly in Adobe PS, Bridge or Elements.
However, if you change the Caption/Image Description field in Photoshop, Bridge or Elements, it will write a copy of this description into the EXIF ImageDescription field overwriting the info contained there or crating a new entry if no EXIF data exists in the JPEG file.
Unfortunately, when you now use any other program to change the Caption field, these changes will not be reflected in PS, Bridge or Elements. Even worse, if your camera has written important information into this field it will be irretrievably lost!
The issues around this problem have been very well described in abovementioned post from 2003 (tinyurl.com/dms9y). Basically it means that Adobe stuff around with your photos in a way that would abhor most users, and they do so in without first asking you or giving you an option to switch off the feature.
I would love to hear from anyone whose workflow is affected by this problem or why Adobe insist on this policy decision.
KAH
See also the following post dated 2003 complaining about the same sort of thing:
http://groups.google.ch/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse _frm/thread/18689dfea46fbd56/2134e142858ed6aa?lnk=st&q=e xif+photoshop&rnum=3&hl=de#2134e142858ed6aa
or http://tinyurl.com/dms9y
This is how anyone can reconstruct the problem: Take the following image from Adobe’s web site:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/images/a bout_adobe_main.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/ank2z
Use Irfan View (see http://www.irfanview.com) or any other respectable editor to change the IPTC Caption field of this image (in Irfanview press "i" and click in IPTC). This is the field that photographers use to describe what is in the photo and it is also the field that Web generators use for captioning the photo when automatically generating photo galleries on the web.
Import this file into Bridge or PS Elements and watch how the capture field is updated correctly. If the Thumbnail already exists in Bridge or Elements you might have to press Crtl-Shift-U in Elements or F5 in Bridge to update the thumbnails and metadata.
If you subsequently change the IPTC Capture field using another program (eg. Irfanview) these changes will be reflected correctly in Adobe PS, Bridge or Elements.
However, if you change the Caption/Image Description field in Photoshop, Bridge or Elements, it will write a copy of this description into the EXIF ImageDescription field overwriting the info contained there or crating a new entry if no EXIF data exists in the JPEG file.
Unfortunately, when you now use any other program to change the Caption field, these changes will not be reflected in PS, Bridge or Elements. Even worse, if your camera has written important information into this field it will be irretrievably lost!
The issues around this problem have been very well described in abovementioned post from 2003 (tinyurl.com/dms9y). Basically it means that Adobe stuff around with your photos in a way that would abhor most users, and they do so in without first asking you or giving you an option to switch off the feature.
I would love to hear from anyone whose workflow is affected by this problem or why Adobe insist on this policy decision.
KAH
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