Help Needed: EXIF data loss when converting to JPEG

[mitawa]

This is my first post on this forum. Hope am posting this in right subsection of the forum. I intend to be active member of this forum and learn a great deal about photography using this nice forum. But I am stuck at first stage itself, I guess.
I use Photoshop CS5 for editing my pics. But I don't own it myself. I have to go to my cousin's place. Now I have few pics edited with photoshop and copied those psd format pics to my pc. These photos do contain all the EXIF data. Since I don't have photoshop at my place, I use irfanview to convert them to jpeg. But the resultant .jpg pics show no EXIF data at all. I have enabled options like 'keep original EXIF data', keep original XMP data'; but still resultant jpeg files lose all EXIF data.
I have even tried some online image converting facilities too; but with same problem. I know simplest way would be to use Save As option in photoshop. But I don't have access to his PC all the time.

Any way of converting psd to jpg without losing EXIF data?

I would be obliged to receive any help. Thank you.

Note: My original camera pics are in jpeg format. My Camera, a non-SLR (Canon Powershot S2 IS) doesn't allow shooting in RAW, I guess.

[jdepould]

Photoshop.com might be worth a shot

[mitawa]

Thanks jdepould for replying!
I did create account at photoshop.com. But the jpeg conversion there also resulted in loss of EXIF
Anything else I can try?

[inkista]

Have you tried exiftool?

It's a command-line utility, although there are a few GUIs.

On the command line, I'd try:

exiftool -AllTagsFromFile=source.psd destination.jpg

where source.psd is your Photoshop file, and destination.jpg is your JPEG.

[mitawa]

Thanks inkista! But I can't seem to get this exiftool to work
I downloaded the standalone windows version. Renamed exe to exiftool.exe. Extracted to C:/Windows and tried to run in from cmd. But once I run C:/WINDOWS/exiftool.exe, it shows the documentation (readme file). Where to put your command?
I am not much of a techie. So please help! Isn't there anything similar with GUI? I guess not. But help me with this exiftool.

[inkista]

Sorry, I'm on OSX and using the perl version.

There is an ExifTool GUI for Windows, but I have no idea how you'd use it.

[Boyd]

Originally Posted by mitawa

I downloaded the standalone windows version. ... But once I run C:/WINDOWS/exiftool.exe, it shows the documentation (readme file). Where to put your command?

It doesn't sound like you have a "Windows" version, but just the command line executable. (I don't recall seeing a Windows version of this tool, meaning one that has a typical User Interface where it shows you the various options and you click on check marks, enter file names and so forth. I've only seen that command line tool, which is what it sounds like you have).

You have to put in all the correct switches and filenames and so forth when using EXIFTool, as described by the text that you get when you run the exe. Getting the results you're looking for ain't very obvious, unfortunately.

EDIT: I did a quick Google search and came across one example of a Graphical User Interface that can help you run EXIFTool. Be careful, though, and don't rush through anything, whether it's the tool I linked or anything else. Be sure you understand what you're getting into, or you might be getting something that you don't want.

Sorry, I didn't notice that this was the same tool that Inkista linked. I need to slow down and read better myself, it would appear.

[mitawa]

Thank you inkista. The GUI version of the software provided by you did help. But I guess, instead of using such softwares, I would be bettered served by using Photoshop itself to finish my product at my cousin's place itself. Thanks for the help.

It doesn't sound like you have a "Windows" version, but just the command line executable.

. What I meant Boyd by Windows version of exiftool, was Windows Executable version of that software that doesn't require support Pearl library support. (There are two versions of that software on the website). Thanks for providing the link though.

The problem's resolved guys. Thank you!!!

[abhijith.rao]

Were you "Saving for the web" or "Save As" while creating your JPGs?

[mitawa]

Hello abhijhit,
I hadn't saved my files in the jpg format at all and that was the problem. As I said I don't have photoshop at my place. I worked with photoshop at my cousin's place and had saved the modified files in the psd format (BIG mistake) and then copied them to my pc where there's no photoshop. Thus arose the problem of converting psd to jpeg without photoshop & without losing EXIF data.
I know what you are pointing at. I know 'save for web' option results in loss of EXIF. At least that was the case till Photoshop CS4. Now the latest CS5, I believe, allows saving for web, at the same time keeping EXIF data intact. But my problem was converting psd to jpeg without photoshop.
But the exiftool did work in the end.
Thanks for your concern.
By the way, good to see a 'keen Indian photographer' (and a passionate cyclist) from the IT city of India on this forum. (Just saw your Flickr profile). Would love to interact with & learn from you.