Photoshop Elements has an option to Save For Web, which strips out the EXIF data to reduce the file size, plus a few other options.
I would like to do the equivalent in GIMP (3.0.2); what is the method for that? Thanks!
Unless I am mistaken having all the metadata boxes unticked in the export process achieves what you want. You can also add a comment such as copyright.
When exporting for the web you could rescale the image and reduce quality to create smaller but sufficient files that load much quicker.
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Thanks! Yes, that’s what I do now: scale down the image and save with a lower Quality value and no metadata.
That seems to work; but what I’m looking for is to create a “saved setting” for that operation, separate from the settings I use for higher-quality full-size saves.
It appears to me that “Load Saved Settings” does not offer a choice among different settings for JPEG, only the most recently saved one. Or am I mistaken?
No, you are not mistaken, although you can get an estimate of file size when that “Show preview in image window” is enabled.
There used to be a plugin - Gimp 2.8 maybe just working in Gimp 2.10 - for web export. Nothing yet for Gimp 3.0 I have a couple of home made plugins for Gimp 2.10 but scripting in Gimp 3.0 has become lots & lots more complicated. Maybe someone will make such a plugin for you.
Thanks! I can live with remembering the steps: scale down, lower Quality, and no metadata. Hoped I could create a saved setting for high quality and another for web posting / emailing, but it does not appear that multiple settings are supported. Would be a convenience, though…
@ronsipherd I would agree that having a drop down list of saved settings would be an improvement for GIMP. I wonder if they have a feature request link that you could post this suggestion to?
There is already a plugin designed also for this purpose:
BATCHER
Rich instructions, possibility to report errors and additional wishes.
It has three modules: Export Images, Edit Layers, Batch Converter with the function of saving settings to a json file.
However, the saved settings are not compatible between modules, but this is to change in the next version.
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Thanks for the information. I will take a look at it.