GIMP stripping EXIF ??

[mfreg]

Hi everyone,
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place for this but......I have a question. I just noticed that
whenever I load a TIF file into GIMP, edit it and save as a JPG for posting on the internet, the program is stripping my EXIF info. from the file ?? Does anyone know why that might be happening ?

thanks in advance for any help.

regards
mike

[star]

I have the same problem, don't know why though.looking forward to hearing others thoughts though.

[sybren]

It's probably because The Gimp doesn't know whether the original EXIF is still valid or not. The easiest way to work around this is to copy the EXIF from one file to the other using something like exiftool.

[mfreg]

Well..here's something I just found out, it's actually my TIFF files that are missing the EXIF data, but not all of them ???? I just checked (10) files that I converted yesterday and (6) of them are missing the EXIF and the (4) still have it ????? now I'm really confused.
Star...I see you have an xsi, are you using the Canon software to convert your RAW files to TIFF ??? if so, could you you look at your TIFF files and let me know if they are missing EXIF data ?? I am using the Canon software that came with the camera. Maybe that's where the issue is.

thanks.
mike

[sybren]

On a side note: with exiftool you can copy the EXIF directly from the RAW to the JPEG if you want ;-)

Of course, it would be much easier if things would just work the way you want them to...

[mfreg]

Sybren

Of course, it would be much easier if things would just work the way you want them to...

Ain't that the truth....lol.......that goes for 99.999% of life in general doesn't it...