I can scribble out identifying info (text, landmarks, faces) in an image, but I’ve heard images can have some geographic data. How do I remove that?

And video is a whole separate challenge - I don’t know how to edit video. Does video have other metadata like my location or stuff about my device? What’s some software good for beginners? How do you remove excess metadata with it?

Are there other considerations I should have?

(If there are step-by-step resources out there, please feel free to just link me to them.)

Thanks in advance!

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      exiftool -all= /path/to/file

      EZ

      ETA: Not sure what’s with the downvotes. I use this command all the time.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      OP should be aware removing this data will often require you to change the orientation of the image. Its one of the problems with using exif data to store the orientation rather allowing the image to be seen the way its really stored. I made one of my daughters high school teachers furious when I pointed out why the images the kids were uploading were being saved ‘sidewase’ to use the teachers description. When she assured me the software vendor assured them it wasn’t anything they were doing and I showed her on the sites support pages where they addressed the issue. I also explained to my daughter the correct way to take the pictures with her phone so they looked the same after the exif data was removed. She told the rest of the kids and the problem largely went away.

  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    5 months ago

    add a bunch of random text on the text you’re trying to censor, that’s my contribution.

    edit: slight rewording

    edit2: oh i recommend imagepipe for what you asked

  • DBT@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    If you have an iPhone you could make a basic shortcut to do that.

    Here’s what it would look like.

    Make sure to uncheck “Preserve Metadata.”