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Show HN: ExifShot – A beautiful way to show metadata of your photo
- bigredhdl 8y agoCool, I like it.
- p_red 8y agoThanks. I hope you will find it useful.
- ktpsns 8y agoAnd the result is a JPEG holding both the original JPEG and ... text? JPEG and text is a horrible idea. Even with best quality settings, compression artefacts are visible. Why don't you offer SVG export? That would solve all problems and make the embedding into websites really easy. You even can embed your JPEG into SVG (base64, you will loose a ~30% in file size but the lesser storage for the text gives it back).
- sbr464 8y agoI'm not the author, but I think the idea would be that you are sharing on instagram or similar, maybe in a story where you have the full image, then one or a few variations with the exif info displayed. I could see where it would be better than using an unformatted list of info in a comment, plus it doesn't crowd the description.
- p_red 8y agoExactly! Thank you.
- p_red 8y agoI hear you! More flexible export options will be introduced in the future for both format and size. Starting with fewer options and focusing on actual use cases is the priority for now. Thanks.
- karmakaze 8y agoHow do you extract the Exif info? As I understand it, it's terribly complicated if considering the various manufacturer's quirks.
- giobox 8y agoI’d always found this to be the opposite - Exif data is generally universally readable by photography/file management tools regardless of the camera that took it. I’ve never heard of photographers encountering trouble reading Exif data, unless it was because they accidentally stripped the metadata in a save as/export somewhere. There are a fair few libraries out there for pretty much any programming language you like that will return this data.
- p_red 8y agoLike @giobox said, it's not complicated at all. You can search github for exif term and you will find libraries for almost any programing language.