How To Remove Exif Data

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August 13, 2011
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Hi,

Can you tell me how to remove all exif data, tags, etc from a photo? And, how to batch remove? Do you have to add a plug in?

Thanks,

Barb

Correct answer

Barbara, consider also 3rd party utilities. For professional use, I suggest this EXIF data eraser -- since it's very accurate and quite straightforward. For simplistic usage, Save for Web or just re-saving to another format is enough.

Stephen Marsh

Adobe Expert

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/free-script-remove-selected/td-p/10104624

The "All Metadata (new file)" option from my Bulk Remove All Selected Items.jsx script will remove all metadata while retaining layers (this particular script is for interactive single image use).

This version would be better for batch processing:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/script-to-remove-all-meta-data-from-the-photo/m-p/10400906?page=2

I usually use ExifTool to batch remove all metadata:

exiftool -all= -CommonIFD0= --icc_profile:all 'full path to file'

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/12/automator-diy-exiftool-gui-services.html?m=1

Stringer

New Participant

I tried saving to a differnt format. Most of the EXIF data has gone, but it appears to remember the original creation date, which is what I want to remove, as I don't want it to be known which day the original photo was taken.

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Anonymous

Correct answer

Barbara, consider also 3rd party utilities. For professional use, I suggest this EXIF data eraser -- since it's very accurate and quite straightforward. For simplistic usage, Save for Web or just re-saving to another format is enough.