At the risk of facilitating piracy, I'd like to note that there are several freeware/shareware utilities that purge Photoshop thumbnails, Macintosh headers, EXIF, JFIF and JPEG metadata from digital images. The basic (and legal) motivation behind these is to minimize the filesize of the image for faster online transfer. Size reduction can range from a few bytes to 20+ kilobytes and more per image.
My favorite utility in this catagory is Thumber (
http://www.tawbaware.com/thumber.htm ). Unchecking the "Retain image data in edited and resized images" option in Settings will remove all header info. For those of us who prefer to
keep all of our original header/EXIF info though, Thumber does that too. It will rotate, sharpen, blur, resize, and even batch-remove specified "bad pixels" and then save the edited file with all the original header information intact (except for dimensional info of course).
Another good shareware program is David Crowell's JStrip (
http://www.davidcrowell.com/jstrip.php ). While it doesn't have Thumber's editing capabilities, it does a very straighforward job of removing all the extra header baggage. David also distributes a freeware version called JStrip Lite with fewer options.
12-04-2002, 11:58 AM
Similar Threads 
