How to clear GPS data in Photoshop (Creative Cloud)?

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June 16, 2024
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How do I clear the GPS data from JPEG files using Photoshp in Creative Cloud?

The only way I've learned so far is to do a File > Export As... and save it with the Metadat set to None. But the maximum Quality setting on that is only 7. I like to save my JPEGs at "Maximum" which starts at 10.

Going out and getting a third-party tool is just one more complication to my life. Is there any way to do this in Photoshop itself?

Thanks in advance.

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Semaphoric

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You could edit it out of the metadata in Bridge.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

You could edit it out of the metadata in Bridge.

By @Semaphoric

It looks like the Lat/Long fields can be cleared in Bridge, but Altitude can't but will accept a zero... But there is still other GPS metadata that can't be removed from Bridge's GPS metadata panel.

I'm not sure if this specific XMP metadata can be written/cleared via a script.

It is easy enough to remove the entire GPS group via ExifTool:

exiftool -overwrite_original -gps:all= 'pathTOfileORfolder'

Or to address individual GPS tags:

exiftool -overwrite_original -GPS:Latitude= -GPS:LatitudeRef= -GPS:Longitude= -GPS:LongitudeRef= -GPS:Altitude= -GPS:AltitudeRef= -GPS:GPSTimeStamp= -GPS:GPSSatellites= -GPS:GPSImgDirectionRef= -GPS:GPSMapDatum= -GPS:GPSDateStamp= -GPS:VersionID= 'pathTOfileORfolder'

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Export As quality 7 is the equivalent of Save As quality 12 or Save for Web (Legacy) 100%, they just use different scales with different available increments. Save As/Save a Copy includes all metadata, which is the major difference in equivalent settings.

I created a table comparing these features for Ps 2021:

Photoshop 2021
Save As		Save for Web (Legacy)		Export As
Save As JPEG, Level 12 Baseline Standard	3,382,351 bytes (3.4 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 100	3,035,739 bytes (3 MB on disk)	Export As, Great (7)	2,951,329 bytes (3 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 11 Baseline Standard	2,549,259 bytes (2.6 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 92	2,520,944 bytes (2.5 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 10 Baseline Standard	2,072,956 bytes (2.1 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 84	2,128,221 bytes (2.1 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 9 Baseline Standard	1,813,312 bytes (1.8 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 76	1,826,102 bytes (1.8 MB on disk)	Export As, Excellent (6)	1,835,030 bytes (1.8 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 8 Baseline Standard	1,597,234 bytes (1.6 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 68	1,579,870 bytes (1.6 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 7 Baseline Standard	1,245,822 bytes (1.2 MB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 60	1,301,819 bytes (1.3 MB on disk)	Export As, Very Good (5)	1,324,234 bytes (1.3 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 6 Baseline Standard	905,668 bytes (909 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 52	1,173,631 bytes (1.2 MB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 5 Baseline Standard	837,439 bytes (840 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 44	742,928 bytes (745 KB on disk)	Export As, Good (4)	695,320 bytes (696 KB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 4 Baseline Standard	786,204 bytes (786 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 36	658,904 bytes (659 KB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 3 Baseline Standard	740,953 bytes (741 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 28	596,724 bytes (598 KB on disk)	Export As, Fair (3)	590,963 bytes (594 KB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 2 Baseline Standard	753,850 bytes (758 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 20	546,622 bytes (549 KB on disk)	Export As, Poor (2)	563,817 bytes (565 KB on disk)
Save As JPEG, Level 1 Baseline Standard	709,518 bytes (713 KB on disk)	Save for Web (Legacy), Quality 12	437,863 bytes (438 KB on disk)	Export As, Very Poor (1)	498,396 bytes (500 KB on disk)

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