Photoshop File Info

Everyone,
I have been looking into this for several months and I am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
Background:
Photoshop and other photo editing software allows you to create file info about an image, and I am most conerned with jpegs. This info includes things like keywords, photographer, caption, and many other fields. It appears that this data conforms to a standard that I do not remember the acronym for. They defined a bunch of codes that define a number that corresponds to a specific chunk of data. I have created code to read this data with out any problem, however I would like to also write out this information. Does anyone know of or have API's that make this possible. I posted this once to the the Java Advanced Imaging list and was told that this request was outside of the scope of their project.
I would like an all Java version of this since I need to run on Linux so Photoshop jpeg APIs from Adobe would be out.
As far as I can tell the built in to the J2SE jpeg apis do not allow access to this extended attribute information.
Thank You
Jim

I think this is something that needs to be done. How do you think we should go about either getting this in the APIs or maybe creating a OS project that can read/write these attributes? Is soureforge the right place for something like this? If anyone else has some thoughts on this please let me know.

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john weis
[email protected]
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Genealogy Photo (Private Collection) Custom File Info Panel 1.0 for Photoshop. 11 FEB 2007
Developed by Ron Reiger [email protected]
Please contact me to suggest improvements.
1. BASIS FOR THIS CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
2. DESCRIPTION OF EACH PROPERTY NAME
3. WHERE EACH PROPERTY NAME MAPS & OTHER NOTES
4. WHERE TO INSTALL THE CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
1. BASIS FOR THIS CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
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Provider: The owner of the photo as of the date it was scanned. A researcher in a future generations will know who had the photo at a particular point in time.
Provenance: Describe as best you can how the photo got from the person in the photo to the Provider.
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Description Surety: (This is an open text field. You can use any surety rating system you want.) Describe or rate the quality of the Description of the image's people and location. Note any uncertainties regarding any particular people in the photo.
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Informal Subject Description: An optional non-genealogical description of the image, perhaps for using the photo outside of genealogy. Example Informal Subject Description: "Grandpa as a young man."
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State: List the State where the image was taken.
Country: List the County where the image was taken.
Photo Date: List the date the image was taken.
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Media Description: xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'MediaDescription'
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Keywords: xmp_path: 'Keywords' Pre-existing property name
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Mac OS X
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{Home Directory}/Library/Application/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels
Windows
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\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels
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{Home Directory}/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Custom File Info Panels
Windows
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\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\Custom File Info Panels
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<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE panel SYSTEM "http://ns.adobe.com/custompanels/1.0">
<panel title="$$$/CustomPanels/Acro/PanelName=Gen Photo (Private Collection)" version="1" type="custom_panel">
group(placement: place_column, spacing: gLargeSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top)
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text(name: '$$$/AWS/FileInfoLib/Panels/Description/DateCreated=Date Scanned:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
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static_text(name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/Provenance=Provenance:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
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group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text( name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/DescriptionSurety=Description Surety:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
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group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
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2. Copy this line into notepad
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\3.0
3. In notepad go to File>Save As, change the Save As Type to All Files and save to your desktop using the following name
AdobeXMPFileInfoCS5.cfg
4. Then copy the file from your desktop into the flashplayertrust folder that you have shown in your screenshot
Start photoshop cs5 and hopefully the file info is not blank.

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Hello.
I was trying to change the copyright information on a few photos in PS, but every time I open the File Info dialog (ctrl-alt-shift-i) the dialog comes up empty and hangs photoshop. Even if I open PS with a new document and try to open File Info, it still hangs.
Has anyone else noticed this issue and is there a workaround?
Here's my version:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1

Thanks for the suggestion.
I didn't find any files matching with "mru" in the name (I'm running CS6), but did find "FileInfoLibraryPrefs.xml" which contains:
<xfi:libraryprefs xmlns:xfi="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/">
<xfi:dialogSize width="977" height="753" minWidth="640" minHeight="480"/>
</xfi:libraryprefs>
I renamed it, started Bridge, selected file-info for a file, it still came up blank, but it did drop in a new "FileInfoLibraryPrefs.xml" file with the following:
<xfi:libraryprefs xmlns:xfi="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/">
<xfi:dialogSize width="680" height="620" minWidth="640" minHeight="480"/>
</xfi:libraryprefs>
Anyway, it didn't work after a second try.
Also, I have Bridge CS3 installed on my system (still using the old Version Cue), and that File Info XMP dialog comes up fine.

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I recently had to replace the had drive and reinstall Photoshop CS5. I used to be able to access the file info box and add metadata or read the camera settings. Now the file info box loads but the fields are not available. if I log out and use the guest account on my Mac it works fine so Adobe support told me it is a permissions issue that prevents the box from loading. I have no idea where to correct this.
I am running Photoshop at 32 bit so my scanner will work, but I tried it at both 32 & 64, but the file info box doesn't load regardless of this setting. I also tried unistalling & reinstalling Photoshop. I have obviously messed up a user permissions setting somewhere but I don't know where to fix it.
Here is a screen capture showing the two views. The top is logged into my usual account and bottom is on the guest account.Thanks for any suggestions!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8102950/screens_mac.jpg
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I recently had to replace the had drive and reinstall Photoshop CS5. I used to be able to access the file info box and add metadata or read the camera settings. Now the file info box loads but the fields are not available. if I log out and use the guest account on my Mac it works fine so Adobe support told me it is a permissions issue that prevents the box from loading. I have no idea where to correct this.
I am running Photoshop at 32 bit so my scanner will work, but I tried it at both 32 & 64, but the file info box doesn't load regardless of this setting. I also tried unistalling & reinstalling Photoshop. I have obviously messed up a user permissions setting somewhere but I don't know where to fix it.
Here is a screen capture showing the two views. The top is logged into my usual account and bottom is on the guest account.Thanks for any suggestions!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8102950/screens_mac.jpg
mac OSX 10.6.8
Photoshop CS5 10.0.4 x32

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eliot1785 wrote:
Is there a way for me to upload the file to the forum without stripping the EXIF information? Would be interested if you see the same thing on your Mac.
No; but you can upload it to an FTP server or a service like Dropbox or the free yousendit.com and post the link to it here.

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