Accessing EXIF data of posted photographs

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From time to time I see members comment on the exif data and adjustments which have been made to photographs posted to the forum.  I view the forum on a PC running Windows 11.  Despite all my attempts, I have been unable to view such data.  I would be grateful for any help members can provide.

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49 minutes ago, icon80 said:

From time to time I see members comment on the exif data and adjustments which have been made to photographs posted to the forum.  I view the forum on a PC running Windows 11.  Despite all my attempts, I have been unable to view such data.  I would be grateful for any help members can provide.

right click on the image and open it in a new tab or window, save it to the desktop, open the file and windows preview should show the image details

[pegelli]

When you use Firefox there's a very handy plug-in called wxIF. When you then right click on an image you get an option to directly see the Exif in a seprate browser window. Other handy plug-in I use is a histogram viewer which works exactly the same. I don't know if similar plug-ins exist for other browsers like Chrome or Edge.

[icon80]

Thank you for these replies.  I had tried saving to desktop, but found this very cumbersome, especially since many images showed no exif data.  Have found two plugins to my Edge browser, which allow a much more straightforward "right click on image" to view exif data.  Turns out that a majority of posted images have been stripped of the exif data.  Thanks once again.

[andybarton]

I always strip EXIF from any photographs I share on here and always have done. 

[fotografr]

On 6/22/2023 at 6:27 PM, icon80 said:

Thank you for these replies.  I had tried saving to desktop, but found this very cumbersome, especially since many images showed no exif data.  Have found two plugins to my Edge browser, which allow a much more straightforward "right click on image" to view exif data.  Turns out that a majority of posted images have been stripped of the exif data.  Thanks once again.

When people use the "Save For Web" option, the exif data is stripped out. When images are sized in Lightroom or Photoshop, then "Saved As," the exif is not stripped out. I use both methods.