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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: essere on November 15, 2012, 11:40:56 AM

Title: unintened modify
Post by: essere on November 15, 2012, 11:40:56 AM
Hi,

I have this problem: I modified a jpeg photo using Paint, drawing a square at the center of it. But now I want the old pic back and I don't know what to do. I noticed that the thumbnail preview of the pic is exactly the old pic with no square.
I tried to use ExifTool:

exiftool.exe -b ThumbnailImage image.jpeg > image1.jpeg

and now I have the image1.jpeg, which is my old unmodified photo, but with a lower resolution. So what I ask is how can I have the old image with the same resolution?

Thanks
Title: Re: unintened modify
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 15, 2012, 12:19:26 PM
I'm afraid the only way to do this is to go to a backup of the file.

- Phil