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Old August 18th 18, 02:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default "Properties" and PShop?

When altering an image with Photoshop, that images
original properties seem altered and take on the
date of the Photoshop session. How can one
maintain the date of taking in properties?
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Old August 18th 18, 03:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default "Properties" and PShop?

In article , Peter Jason
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When altering an image with Photoshop, that images
original properties seem altered and take on the
date of the Photoshop session. How can one
maintain the date of taking in properties?


the date the photo was taken is in the exif data, along with a lot more.
the modification date of the file will change when you modify it.
they represent different things.
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Old August 18th 18, 03:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default "Properties" and PShop?

Peter Jason wrote:
When altering an image with Photoshop, that images
original properties seem altered and take on the
date of the Photoshop session. How can one
maintain the date of taking in properties?


To maintain the file system level dates, you'd
"Save As" and change the name. Some photo editors
might want you to use an "Export" function rather
than a "Save As", depending on their own weird
ideas about what save means.

sunflowers.jpg July25,2018

sunflowers_1.jpg Aug17, 2018

By keeping the same root name, you have some idea
how the edited version refers to an "original" photo.

petunias.jpg
petunias_1.jpg

sunflowers.jpg
sunflowers_1.jpg

The EXIF data on the original photo, preserves
what the camera put there. Depending on how
you've handled your artwork, and what happens
with various tools you might use, the EXIF data
might get "beat up" a bit after a bunch of edits
of the _1, _2, etc intermediate JPG files.

Windows even has a push button option to delete
metadata, which gives another way to lose the EXIF
data given half a chance.

The beauty of computers, is you can lose just
about anything when it comes to files. And generally
the more effort you put into polishing stuff, the
more joy the computer/OS takes in breaking your
efforts. I've run into a few people who have
spent hundreds of hours on their Media Center
collection, adding artwork and descriptions,
only to have that work "trashed". You can't
trust a computer further than you can throw it
in the back garden.

Paul
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Old August 18th 18, 03:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default "Properties" and PShop?

"Peter Jason" wrote

| When altering an image with Photoshop, that images
| original properties seem altered and take on the
| date of the Photoshop session. How can one
| maintain the date of taking in properties?

There are different properties. If you mean
right-click - Properties, the date created should
stay the same while the date last modified will be
updated.

If you mean EXIF data, there are different dates.
Usually there's at least DateTime and DateTimeOriginal.
I find that if I resize and even save as a new file name
in PSP16 it will conserve both. (Assuming I save the
EXIF data, which I normally strip.) But if I do something
like brighten the image and save it then DateTime changes.
Wacky. Those values are also editable. So what difference
does it make, really? It means little.
If you edit the image then it's not the same image,
so it shouldn't have the same date. On the other hand,
as long as you conserve the EXIF data you should still
have the DateTimeOriginal, in case you want to have
a record of when you took the original photo, which is
really the only reason to have that date. Alternatively,
you might include it in the file name or in the parent
folder name: NH vacation 2018.jpg




 




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