Uploading Photos (Photoshop CS3/CS4, Save For Web)

[robackja]

Has anyone ever encountered problems when uploading photos after they have been saved via "Save For Web..." in Photoshop CS3/CS4?

The photos are striped of their EXIF data, but Pixelpost seems to have trouble generating thumbnails, getting width and height (<IMAGE_WIDTH>, <IMAGE_HEIGHT>) tags, both which can be found out without EXIF.

[Dennis+]

what size dimensions do you upload? Hosting companies have restrictions on either execution time of a script, as well as maximum upload size.

[jaywilliams+]

Save for the Web does strip out EXIF data, so that's why I never use that when saving the files for my photoblog. Also as Dennis pointed out, you you want to resize your images in Photoshop before uploading them to Pixelpost.

[robackja]

wow, dennis and jay responses

1. my server is my own, co-located, so apache configuration is fully under my control. PHP upload limit is set at 2M, well over my average file size of 300kb.
2. Photos are sized directly for my blog before uploading (currently 720px wide, but thinking of going larger @ around 900px wide in the near future).

and I'm not a person who wants to hide the EXIF. In fact, I like showing to EXIF because I really like it when I go to another blog and could see the technical side of the shot. PS/CS4 has options to save with metadata (although currently it seems a little buggy), but there are other conveniences with Save for Web.

1. I shoot in Adobe1998 (I do my own printing on Epson R1900 and prefer to shot in A98 instead of sRGB), Save for Web automatically converts it to sRGB. I could easily (as I do now) through the menus, but its just one extra step
2. Finer grain control over JPEG compression

Again, these are all conveniences, so I was just curious as to why this was happening; and since Save for Web is a common workflow for many people, I just figured someone might have run across this in the past. It's not something I am expecting someone to debug

[jaywilliams+]

Back in the old ImageReady days, you could really tweak the JPG export, and even have it include the EXIF data if you want. Sadly, as of CS3 and later, Adobe dropped ImageReady, and Save for the Web with EXIF was a goner.

With Save for the Web now a days, you can enable XMP metadata, but it still strips out the raw EXIF data, which is what Pixelpost needs, and at this time, Pixelpost is unable to read XMP data, so you're left with no EXIF details.