Exif data

[benno]

I have noticed that when I open images in Photoshop CS the Exif metadata shows the word 'soft' along side the 'sharpness' section. My D70 is set to med/low sharpening, not soft, and so I am quite confused about this. Any ideas??

Alan

[mudder]

G'day Benno,
Sorry can;t answer your question, but out of curiosity are you shooting raw and also are you using one of the auto type of settings such as portrait or something like that? I thought the portrait setting may apply some "soft focus" or something...

A more learned member shall come along and will probably answer your question though...

Cheers,
Mudder

[Glen]

benno, notice how it is only on some images? It is Adobe passing comments on your ability as a photographer. Just turn off the "critique my photos" button.

Sorry, I have no idea, but there are many resident experts who will help.

[Killakoala]

Just switch off in-camera sharpening or set it to normal and let PSCS do the work for you.

[xorl]

I'm not familiar with photoshop, but I imagine photoshop simply uses different names when it interprets the standard EXIF Sharpness tag. The exif tag names and values are stored numerically. Eg: "tag 0x0166 => 0" might be interpreted as "Sharpness => Normal". It is up to the software to decide tha "0 => Normal".

If you take a bunch of photos at different settings you can find out how Photoshop interprets the information.

There is also a "maker" section in EXIF data where the D70 records the actual name of the sharpening setting used - but a lot of software doesn't know how to interpret this section and ignores it.

Hope this helps.