Deleting Creator Tool information.

Started by Lamb, August 24, 2012, 05:02:44 PM

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Lamb

August 24, 2012, 05:02:44 PM Last Edit: August 24, 2012, 05:15:43 PM by Lamb
Hello, I wish to delete information shown under Creator Tool but I don't know the commands for doing so. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Creator Tool                    : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Macintosh)

How do I write a command to delete that information?

Lamb

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August 24, 2012, 05:36:06 PM
After trying the command:

exiftool -creatortool= file.jpg

I am left with file.jpg which still has the creator tool information and a strange file.jpg_original. What's happening?

Phil Harvey

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August 25, 2012, 06:59:53 AM
Your command is correct and will remove the CreatorTool information.  The "_original" file is a backup of the original image.

I suspect that you are looking at information cached by lightroom if you think that the creator tool information is still there.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Lamb

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August 25, 2012, 10:39:54 AM Last Edit: August 25, 2012, 11:45:13 AM by Lamb
Success! The information I had been looking at was under Software                        : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Macintosh)

It seems Lightroom wrote information in both Software and Creator Tool fields and writing exiftool -software= file.jpg as well did the trick.

Thank you for the reply, Phil. Exiftool is an extremely useful tool, albeit a complicated one.
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