Just curious about removing Adobe Camera Raw "development" related XMP info from a rendered file.
I have found the following in the forums:
exiftool -xmp:all=
However that is a little too broad as it appears to remove all XMP metadata, not just the Adobe Camera Raw data.
I was hoping to find an "ACR group" code rather than having to manually list every field, however one did not leap out at me looking at the TagNames reference.
I dumped all of the tags out of a file that had been processed with ACR and the relevant tags appear to be as follows:
Photoshop Camera Raw 9.1.1 (Macintosh), Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh)
History Changed
History Parameters
Derived From Instance ID
Derived From Document ID
Derived From Original Document ID
Format
Raw File Name
Version
Process Version
White Balance
Auto White Version
Color Temperature
Tint
Saturation
Sharpness
Luminance Smoothing
Color Noise Reduction
Vignette Amount
Shadow Tint
Red Hue
Red Saturation
Green Hue
Green Saturation
Blue Hue
Blue Saturation
Vibrance
Hue Adjustment Red
Hue Adjustment Orange
Hue Adjustment Yellow
Hue Adjustment Green
Hue Adjustment Aqua
Hue Adjustment Blue
Hue Adjustment Purple
Hue Adjustment Magenta
Saturation Adjustment Red
Saturation Adjustment Orange
Saturation Adjustment Yellow
Saturation Adjustment Green
Saturation Adjustment Aqua
Saturation Adjustment Blue
Saturation Adjustment Purple
Saturation Adjustment Magenta
Luminance Adjustment Red
Luminance Adjustment Orange
Luminance Adjustment Yellow
Luminance Adjustment Green
Luminance Adjustment Aqua
Luminance Adjustment Blue
Luminance Adjustment Purple
Luminance Adjustment Magenta
Split Toning Shadow Hue
Split Toning Shadow Saturation
Split Toning Highlight Hue
Split Toning Highlight Saturation
Split Toning Balance
Parametric Shadows
Parametric Darks
Parametric Lights
Parametric Highlights
Parametric Shadow Split
Parametric Midtone Split
Parametric Highlight Split
Sharpen Radius
Sharpen Detail
Sharpen Edge Masking
Post Crop Vignette Amount
Grain Amount
Color Noise Reduction Detail
Color Noise Reduction Smoothness
Lens Profile Enable
Lens Manual Distortion Amount
Perspective Vertical
Perspective Horizontal
Perspective Rotate
Perspective Scale
Perspective Aspect
Perspective Upright
Auto Lateral CA
Exposure 2012
Contrast 2012
Highlights 2012
Shadows 2012
Whites 2012
Blacks 2012
Clarity 2012
Defringe Purple Amount
Defringe Purple Hue Lo
Defringe Purple Hue Hi
Defringe Green Amount
Defringe Green Hue Lo
Defringe Green Hue Hi
Dehaze
Tone Map Strength
Convert To Grayscale
Tone Curve Name
Tone Curve
Tone Curve Red
Tone Curve Green
Tone Curve Blue
Tone Curve Name 2012
Tone Curve PV2012
Tone Curve PV2012 Red
Tone Curve PV2012 Green
Tone Curve PV2012 Blue
Camera Profile
Camera Profile Digest
Lens Profile Setup
Has Settings
Has Crop
Already Applied
Try this command :
exiftool -XMP:All -a -G1 -s FILE
That will give you the names of some of the actual XMP groups those tags belong to and if you're lucky, some of those groups might be able to be removed outright. For example, on a random image I grabbed from Flickr, I found some of those History and Derived tags in XMP-xmpMM and many of the color adjustment ones in XMP-crs. So the command to remove those whole blocks would be Exiftool -XMP-crs:all= -XMP-xmpMM:all= FileOrDir.
If you can't remove whole groups, you might look into creating a shortcut tag in a config file and you could use that to remove a bunch of individual tags.
Thank you StarGeek!
Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, that command is certainly more helpful in working out what the actual tags are!
It appears that the major "offending group" is just as you said:
[XMP-crs]
I presume that the crs is for Camera Raw Settings!
So you were bang on the money with:
exiftool -XMP-crs:all=
And I appreciate that there may be some other strays, however CRS was the major one that I was looking to remove.