How do I get rid of time and date data?

[miller1899]

Is this the same as EXIF data? When the mouse hovers over a JPEG icon it shows the time and date on which I took the picture. Sometimes it's very useful but right now I want to get rid of it. Is there an easy way to do it, ideally by batch processing?

I've got Adobe Elements (6 or 7 I think).

thanks very much

[dibbly dobbler]

This is not the same as EXIF - I think it's a windows option.

To get rid of it go into:

control panel > folder options then untick 'show pop up description...'

[miller1899]

Thanks. I don't mind having the info pop up on my own computer but what I want is to wipe any information so that if I email it to someone they have no way of telling when I took it. I think that is what I should have said in the first place. Will what you have suggested delete this data or does it just stop it popping up?

[dibbly dobbler]

Ah right - I misunderstood your first post. In all honesty I have no more to add on removing EXIF than a Google search would turn up eg this

[5hero]

Is there a "Save for web" option on elements? If so, this should remove the stuff.

[LocoBlade]

I used ExifMixer to run a batch reset on my images so their modified time/date was the same as their date taken time/date (for easier sorting in Windows), so you could probably use that tool to do a similar thing and get rid of stuff like that entirely.

http://www.moonsoftware.com/exifmixer.asp

[Simpo Two]

Or screengrab, paste into PS and save as a new image (but will limit resolution to that of your monitor of course)

[mrmr96]

Simpo Two said:

Or screengrab, paste into PS and save as a new image (but will limit resolution to that of your monitor of course)

or start a new file, and copy and paste the image across and save it.

[SamHH]

You need to remove the exif data. IrfanView (free) will do this in batch.

Download; install; file; batch conversion/rename; options; deselect 'Keep original EXIF data'.

[miller1899]

Thanks all. Really helpful to get some pointers. Elements has got save for web so I will have a go and that and will also download the suggested software

[rxtx]

I would install ExifTool rather than messing around doing it manually,

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

I use the command line version. To remove all useful tags from all files in the current directory I just do:

% exiftool -all= *.jpg

It will copy the originals to <filename>_original and leave the following tags intact:

% exiftool test.jpg
ExifTool Version Number : 8.40
File Name : test.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 433 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2012:07:24 12:56:10+01:00
File Permissions : rw-r--r--
File Type : JPEG
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Image Width : 1024
Image Height : 690
Encoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:4:4 (1 1)
Image Size : 1024x690