DG Site Updates: Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 photo contest!, 1 by gardenwife

gardenwife wrote:
Just an FYI, for many photos you can tell what camera was used and what settings were used when the shot was taken. If an image was edited and saved out of a photo editor, it will often also include the software's information.

You need to have photo software installed that can view this EXIF information.

Irfanview, available at http://irfanview.com , is a great basic image editor that lets you easily view this information. This is how you'd view it using Irfanview, assuming you have it set up as the default program to open JPG's for viewing.

1. Right-click on the photo and choose your browser's option for saving the image
2. Note where the image is saved
3. Double-click the photo to open it in Irfanview
4. Click the icon depicting a circle with a letter i in it
5. In the resulting window, click the button which says "EXIF info*"
6. This brings up the EXIF info for the photo. In that window, you may copy the data to the Windows clipboard and paste it into another document for reference.

Note that some people prefer to strip the EXIF info from photos they edit and save because it makes the file sizes much smaller if that data is omitted. In those cases, there won't be any camera data to view. Likewise, some websites strip EXIF info from photos uploaded.

Hope that helps!

This message was edited Nov 28, 2008 9:22 AM