Comments Occasionally I need to remove IPTC metadata from a file when I demo Photoshop and Lightroom. In order to do this quickly, I’ve created a metadata template which has blank fields AND a check to the right of each field. When applied, Lightroom replaces the metadata that I entered in the previous demo with the “blank” data so that I can demonstrate adding it again.
Be careful with this one – I once wiped out an entire years worth of keywords that I had applied.
Could you give an example as to “when” you would need to do that?
Thank you.
Very smart!
Thanks for your information but can you provide any tutorial on photo manipulation
All fo the tutorials I have about Photoshop are here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/photoshop-training-videos
National Association of Photoshop Professionals and Lynda.com and many others have excellent trainers and tutorials.
Ok just realized that my copyright metadata preset was actually setup to blank out GPS making me lose my geotags from all pictures (jpg). Is there any way to recover this metadata?
Thanks
Great post. I created a similar preset for adding copyright information but the preset somehow had the GPS items checked with blanks, so my entire JPG photo collection got the copyright information but all GPS information was removed. Is there any way to recover the metadata that is overwritten by the metadata presets?
Thanks!
Unfortunately there is not a way to recover the GPS information if you have already saved the metadata to the JPEG files. If you have backups (prior to applying the metadata preset), then it would be possible to restore those.
Super duper Julieanne! I needed to submit some “clean” photos to a competition and this is just the info I needed. And this page came up first on Google. And you know how much I love that!
Excuse what might be a naive question but is there somewhere I can download of buy this template for removing metadata? Also will this also remove Captions or Comments?
TIA.
Vikas,
If you open the metadata template editor and check the fields that you want to clear (using hte checkbox on the right), then save that template you should be up and running.
OK. Just to clarify, if you leave these fields blank and checked as a preset, there will be NO copyright data attached to the image upon being exported? That is what I am gathering but just wanting to be SURE as that is what I am hoping to achieve. Thank you!!
If you don’t add copyright data to the image, then there won’t be any added on export. Just look in the Metadata panel to see if there is information that you don’t want to include.