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Script to remove all meta data from the photo

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Mar 14, 2019 Mar 14, 2019

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Hi

I am looking for a Script to remove all meta data from the photo (main issue is camera and lens info)

if i give my  client a flat image with no layers, i can do it while i export from lightroom.

but i want a way to do it while i keep the layers

is there a photoshop script to do that?

Thank you in advance

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Guide , Mar 14, 2019 Mar 14, 2019

#target photoshop

removeXMP();

function removeXMP(){

if(!documents.length) return;

if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");

var xmp = new XMPMeta( activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData);

XMPUtils.removeProperties(xmp, "", "", XMPConst.REMOVE_ALL_PROPERTIES);

app.activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData = xmp.serialize();

}

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Community Expert , Jul 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020

As previously mentioned, this can (mostly) be performed using an action, duplicating the layers to a new file. With conditional actions it can gracefully handle a flattened file.  

 

This is performed by duplicating the layers to a new file. NOTE: Paths, alpha channels, guides, colour samplers and other document-level objects will not carry over to the new file (which may be a good thing if this is for a client, they usually don’t require your intermediate “workings”, you are just supplying a la

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