This is a photography-related question so I'm thinking it belongs in this forum.

I understand that retaining exif data after heavy post processing is somewhat meaningless, but what if all you wanted to do was crop, resize, or add a copyright watermark to the image? I tried adding a watermark to an image and after I'd uploaded it to flickr, the exif was gone.

Basically, what I do is open up an image in Fireworks, open up the canned watermark .png image which I'd created beforehand, then drag the watermark onto the photo, then group the two to export a new .jpg. I kinda expected the exif to disappear. But is there any way to modify a pic and retain the exif at the same time?

TIA.

 

i thought exif data was always there or are you talking about the exif info that says Iso, apperture etc... that will go away once you edit a picture

 

Well, exif data gets embedded into jpg when you take a photo in digicam. Yes, ordinarily, the exif would be stripped even after a slight mod since I guess the header gets altered or something. I've just learned on another forum that PhotoShop retains the exif, too bad I have Fireworks.

Are there some free programs out there or something I can use in conjunction with Fireworks?

 

what version of fireworks? I'm not too in touch with fireworks but since adobe now owns macromedia its just a hunch that fireworks 8 may be able to do that now

 

I'm using Fireworks MX 2004. And since Adobe owns both FW and PS, I'm guessing FW will be like an "economy" image editor? Not sure how that's gonna work out.