BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

When you post a photo with exif data attached, can the viewer also trace the steps you did during processing or what programs you used?

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Yes. here is one that I just looked at:

Date Created 2018:10:17 11:55:52.081
16 days, 52 minutes, 33 seconds ago
XMP Toolkit Adobe XMP Core 5.6-c140 79.160302, 2017/03/02-16:59:38
Creator Tool Adobe Photoshop Elements 16.0 (Windows)
Create Date 2018:10:17 11:55:52-07:00
16 days, 52 minutes, 33 seconds ago
Rating 0
Modify Date 2018:10:29 12:19:12-07:00
4 days, 29 minutes, 13 seconds ago
Metadata Date 2018:10:29 12:19:12-07:00
4 days, 29 minutes, 13 seconds ago
Lens TAMRON 18-400mm F3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD B028N
Lens ID 224
Image Number 7528
Approximate Focus Distance 4,294,967,295
Color Mode RGB
ICC Profile Name sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Document ID adobe:docid:photoshop:84b3a726-dbaf-11e8-95cc-999b77a87bae
Original Document ID E6EA75B42103920514F638ABA1B9C24A
Instance ID xmp.iid:045452eb-50a9-7443-bea5-7a806cfadf31
Format image/jpeg
Raw File Name DSC_7511.NEF
Version 10.2
Process Version 10.0
White Balance As Shot
Color Temperature 4,550
Tint +13
Saturation +30
Sharpness 25
Luminance Smoothing 0
Color Noise Reduction 25
Vignette Amount 0
Shadow Tint 0
Red Hue 0
Red Saturation 0
Green Hue 0
Green Saturation 0
Blue Hue 0
Blue Saturation 0
Vibrance +28
Hue Adjustment Red 0
Hue Adjustment Orange 0
Hue Adjustment Yellow 0
Hue Adjustment Green 0
Hue Adjustment Aqua 0
Hue Adjustment Blue 0
Hue Adjustment Purple 0
Hue Adjustment Magenta 0
Saturation Adjustment Red 0
Saturation Adjustment Orange 0
Saturation Adjustment Yellow 0
Saturation Adjustment Green 0
Saturation Adjustment Aqua 0
Saturation Adjustment Blue 0
Saturation Adjustment Purple 0
Saturation Adjustment Magenta 0
Luminance Adjustment Red 0
Luminance Adjustment Orange 0
Luminance Adjustment Yellow 0
Luminance Adjustment Green 0
Luminance Adjustment Aqua 0
Luminance Adjustment Blue 0
Luminance Adjustment Purple 0
Luminance Adjustment Magenta 0
Split Toning Shadow Hue 0
Split Toning Shadow Saturation 0
Split Toning Highlight Hue 0
Split Toning Highlight Saturation 0
Split Toning Balance 0
Parametric Shadows 0
Parametric Darks 0
Parametric Lights 0
Parametric Highlights 0
Parametric Shadow Split 25
Parametric Midtone Split 50
Parametric Highlight Split 75
Sharpen Radius +1.0
Sharpen Detail 25
Sharpen Edge Masking 0
Post Crop Vignette Amount 0
Grain Amount 0
Color Noise Reduction Detail 50
Color Noise Reduction Smoothness 50
Lens Profile Enable 0
Lens Manual Distortion Amount 0
Perspective Vertical 0
Perspective Horizontal 0
Perspective Rotate 0.0
Perspective Scale 100
Perspective Aspect 0
Perspective Upright 0
Perspective X 0.00
Perspective Y 0.00
Auto Lateral CA 0
Exposure 2012 0.00
Contrast 2012 +10
Highlights 2012 -9
Shadows 2012 +34
Whites 2012 -5
Blacks 2012 -28
Clarity 2012 +38
Defringe Purple Amount 0
Defringe Purple Hue Lo 30
Defringe Purple Hue Hi 70
Defringe Green Amount 0
Defringe Green Hue Lo 40
Defringe Green Hue Hi 60
Dehaze 0
Convert To Grayscale False
Tone Curve Name Medium Contrast
Tone Curve Name 2012 Linear

drivered Loc: Capital District, NY

Wow how did you find all that information.

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

Thanks, Stan. Is there an exif viewer program you use? I tweak some photos a lot on LR, sometimes add Windows Photos tweaks, sometimes use other programs. And sometimes I see other people's photos that I wish I could see how they got there.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Another UHH member posted this link awhile back:
http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi

It's amazing what data you can mine in an image file!

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

Thanks, Linda! I think I saw this link before and just tried it out on someone's recent posting. What a lot of info in a small package!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Sometimes it's hard to pass the tests of the "I am not a robot" though

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

I wore a mask

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Then we complain about Government spying.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

If I'm hijacking this post, everybody ignore me and someone yell at me but is there somewhere that will tell me how to understand all that information.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

I love that you said this as I always have trouble with those stupid things!

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

Do you use post-processing programs? I use Lightroom and I recognize some of the color tweaking and other steps that go into post processing. All that luminance info, for instance. There are presets that do it for you or you can use color sliders for tone, saturation, and luminance. And then there are dehaze, exposure, etc. The info might be useful to better understand how the resulting photo was tweaked.
You would be completely lost if you looked at my exif data since I tend to throw stuff at the screen until it sticks..

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Like BlueMorel, I understand some of the terms from my editor, PS Elements. I'm not sure how valuable any of it is, though, if you don't have experience with editing raw files.

The best way to learn them is to dive right in with your editor of choice. One tip I remember from early on is if you want to see what a certain slider does, push it all the way to the right (and there will be definitions of the labels in your Help section)

PS Elements' version of the Adobe raw editor include the below (among others):
Exposure 2012 0.00
Contrast 2012 +10
Highlights 2012 -9
Shadows 2012 +34
Whites 2012 -5
Blacks 2012 -28
Clarity 2012 +38

I don't know what the "2012" is, unless it's the software year. But without seeing the photo, I can determine that exposure was what the photographer desired at time of shooting (0 adjustment), but it seems as though there may have been harsh lighting because he/she is reducing the highlights (-9) and lightening the shadows (+34) in order to get some detail in those extremes.

But then I am stumped because the blacks are being darkened by quite a bit (the "tones" in an image, simply put: blacks, middle gray, whites). For me, the slider for blacks and the slider for shadows seem to go hand in hand and I don't know if I would move one to minus and one to plus. So now I'm very curious to see which photo goes with this data in order to learn more!

Another bit of interest for you from this list: see how saturation of each color can be adjusted individually. My own software does not offer the option to adjust aqua, purple or orange.

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

[quote=Linda From Maine]Like BlueMorel, I understand some of the terms from my editor, PS Elements. I'm not sure how valuable any of it is, though, if you don't have experience with editing raw files.

The best way to learn them is to dive right in with your editor of choice. One tip I remember from early on is if you want to see what a certain slider does, push it all the way to the right (and there will be definitions of the labels in your Help section)

PS Elements' version of the Adobe raw editor include the below (among others):
Exposure 2012 0.00
Contrast 2012 +10
Highlights 2012 -9
Shadows 2012 +34
Whites 2012 -5
Blacks 2012 -28
Clarity 2012 +38
.......

But then I am stumped because the blacks are being darkened by quite a bit (the "tones" in an image, simply put: blacks, middle gray, whites). For me, the slider for blacks and the slider for shadows seem to go hand in hand and I don't know if I would move one to minus and one to plus.
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I am by no means an expert but I HAVE found a difference between shadow and black, especially when converting to bw. I find increasing black often makes blacks stand out whete shadow adds a mote subtle change, and my use my black slider more.