Where does On1 store EXIF data

Hi All

I'm currently planning to scan a load of old (film days) images and where I can I plan to add metadata (EXIF) for stuff like location, who's in the image, where it was taken and such, in part this is for future generations, the equieivent of the hand written note on the back of a photograph.

BUT I'm wondering where On1 stores this data, I'm beginning to suspect that its all in the sidecar file rather than the image file itself. IF this is so its rather limiting as presumably this data would be lost if the image were opened in another application (Photoshop/Lightroom) OR the image file were separated from the sidecar file.

I may be wrong but I seem to remember that PS/LR didn't use sidecar files, that such data was saved to the image file itself.

Can anybody comment on this, offer opinion/suggestion???

Brian Lawson

Community moderator

November 16, 2021 15:55

Metadata is stored in both .on1 and .xmp sidecar files. This is what the User Guide says about it (page 44).

Embedding metadata

Metadata you add in Browse is stored in industry-standard XMP sidecar files for raw files. This facilitates the transfer of metadata to any application that supports XMP. When you edit an image, create a copy of an image for editing or use the ‘Send to’ command, the metadata is embedded into the file automatically (with the exception of raw files). You can manually embed your metadata into images using the Embed Metadata command from the Photos menu. This will open each image you have selected, update the metadata and re-save it. This is supported for TIF, PSD, PSB and JPG files; raw and PNG files do not support direct embedding of metadata.

David Price

November 16, 2021 17:47

Thanks Brian much appreciated. There’s still loads I need to learn,

You do seem to be something of an ON1 encyclopaedia. Again thanks.

Where does On1 store EXIF data

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