Raw Image Captions

[Swordfish]

Does anyone know how to prevent Photoshop Elements automatically adding the caption ' Olympus Digital Camera' to every Raw Image and maintaining this through onto a converted jpeg? Or is it a camera setting? (E620)

It doesn't happen when shooting in jpeg out of the camera.

Of course it's easy enough to remove, but it is still a pain as I nearly always forget until I display the images in a slide show or similar and then turn the air blue when I see the damned caption again!

Thanks for any tips

Martin

[OlyPaul]

Re: Raw Image Captions

It's not actually added by Elements but by the camera itself to the exif info caption /description field which is picked up by other software, it's a pain and I wish Olympus would stop doing this annoying self advertising. And yes it is in jpeg images as well as it is written to the image description field in the camera exif data.

[StephenL]

Re: Raw Image Captions

I always import my photos through Lightroom, and get it to apply a null entry to this field automatically on import, which effectively makes it blank.

I did write to Olympus to see if it could be altered in firmware, but the answer was no, you're stuck with it.

[Swordfish]

Re: Raw Image Captions

Thanks for your responses - glad to know it's not due to my incompetence, even if I can't do anything about it.

Martin

[peak4]

Re: Raw Image Captions

I don't use elements personally so I'm not sure where the offending caption appears, but Phil Harveys ExifTool makes it easy to remove the Olympus wording from the orf or jpg.

Assuming you're running Windows and you don't want to get involved in installing Perl on the PC; (there is a Mac version as well.)

Download the relevant executable file from the top of the linked page above, unzip it and save the resulting file somewhere convenient.
It should unzip as exiftool.exe
It's not installed on your machine as such; it just sits there as an executable file.

Rename the file as "exiftool(-ImageDescription=).exe" exactly as shown, but without the inverted commas of course.
Drag the icon/filename of your jpg or orf over the icon/filename of exiftool, a black dos box should brief appear/disappear, your old jpg/orf will be remamed as filename.jpg_original and filename.jpg should remain where it was but with the offending tag removed from it's exif info.

Exactly the same procedure can be used to add your name into the exif by re-naming the exiftool.exe file as exiftool(-copyright='Bill Williams').exe
Well actually, that would make your photos mine, so please make sure they're good ones

The possibilities are endless, but I'm still trying to work out which tags to edit to get DXO Optics to open E-P1 files