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Exif data
Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:40 pmby 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
Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:47 pmby 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
Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:00 pmby 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.
Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:00 pmby Killakoala
Just switch off in-camera sharpening or set it to normal and let
PSCS do the work for you.
Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:03 pmby 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.