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May 11, 2024
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Saving image in CameraRAW strips GPano metadata, but Opening and Saving doesn't

  • May 11, 2024
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I am working with some 360º panoramic images.  They all have the <GPano> metadata tags in them so that Camera RAW will recognize that they are 360 images and perform Edge Aware filters on them.  This all works fine.  However, if I Save the file(s) as JPEG directly from the CameraRAW dialog in Photoshop by clicking the Save Image button in the upper-right corner, the resulting saved file will be stripped of the <GPano> metadata and therefore will not be recognized as a 360 panorama anywhere else that I use it (Facebook, Google Photos, etc.).

 

But... if instead of saving the image directly in the Camera RAW dialog I Open it into Photoshop then there I can save the file as a JPEG (after converting it from 16-bit to 8-bit) and the <GPano> metadata is preserved correctly.

 

So, the bug is that Camera RAW is not including the <GPano> metadata from the original .dng files when it saves JPEGs.  But opening it into Photoshop and saving from there *does* include the metadata.

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Legend
May 20, 2024

The do-all EXIF utility is EXIFTool, which can likely handle copying these tags from one file to another. If this is an ACR bug then hopefully it is fixed but at least there should be a workaround.

thomas_bredenfeld
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 17, 2024

maybe it's a bug or at least a missing feature, but there's a simple workaround: you can add correct gpano metadata by using https://exiffixer.com works like a charm in such cases for me.