Cleanup Metadata

Question

Hey y'all, I'm once again asking weird stuff.
So, to post my work, I need to export it and post it in whatever hosting service, but, I was checking some documents metadata using the built-in feature, and I noticed that when using the "Save as" (png in my case), it has a ton of info, sometimes even has the layers contents, which I do not want people to know

(i'm not doxxing myself with this, right?)

So, when using "Export for web", I can get a much cleaner data log,

As short as this, I even tried other programs to export my files, and I have the same results.
So I was wondering, how short can we get? I mean, the only part that shows something "personal" is the photoshop version, so not much to be worried about now (Maybe even the creation time, since I release stuff at certain specific dates and I don't want people to know when I got my files...), but I was wondering if there's a way to get even cleaner files. Hope you guys can help me out on this one, thank you all!!!

Stephen Marsh · Accepted Answer

@Iuigidesu  As you have found, Save As (a Copy) is designed to retain metadata. Both Save for Web (Legacy) and Export As remove most metadata and have some options for metadata inclusion/exclusion. As metadata is generally at the document/file level, if using Save As and you wish to strip the metadata, then select all applicable layers and use Layer > Duplicate Layers to a New Document and then Save from this new doc. Note that no matter the method used, Photoshop always includes some metadata. Otherwise, dedicated tools for working with Metadata can be used, the defacto tool of choice is the CLI driven ExifTool: https://exiftool.org/

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