About save for web and devices in Photoshop CS4

[4personnen]

Hi everyone,
I'm a bit puzzled that I thought that, when using the "save for Web" function with "all" chosen from the drop down menu of the embedded infos when saving, I was keeping both informations from Copyright and EXIF. For usually I don't want to provide my exifs with everyone when sharing my photos (personnal matter), I use "copyright info" in the drop down menu. But now, I am testing the stuff and just noticed that there's no exifs in my files, just the copyright thing. I checked the manual, and it's written that "all" means "all". there is even the option of saving "all" but the camera info. Have I misunderstood something?

Thanks everyone.

[TommyO]

4personnen,
I think you are correct in your understanding of the options. I did a few tests and at CS5 it seems to work fine. Unfortunately, I can't speak for CS4. So, maybe it is simply an understanding of where the copyright information is within the image. Be sure to look in the IPTC Core section.

[4personnen]

I'm not worried about the copyright, I'm just worried about the exifs. Even with "all" selected, I can't see no camera info on the "properties".

[4personnen]

when I post my file on a website, with the save as option, I can see the camera settings on File>properties and not when I use the save for web.

[TommyO]

Both File>Save for web and File>Save as both retain all Exif data when tested on CS5. The Metadata drop down in Save for web worked as expected also.

I recall that earlier versions of PS did not support Exif data in Save for web, only Save As. It would strip the APP1 tag from the file. But, in CS4 I don't think so. However, you should check on CS4 from someone else.

[4personnen]

So I cast a spell on all Cs4 users.
"Shall thou give me that answer"

thanks anyway for your time...

[4personnen]

I made screen shots of the PS manual (as it can be found when you press the "help" button in the CS4..).
here it is:


Now it's hard for me to swallow, but what "all" means really...

Thanks for any sensible explanation...