On Sunday, 16 December 2012 20:43:12 UTC+1, jwe.va...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to resize an image but retain the exif data > > I now have: > > import Image > > > > img = Image.open('photo.jpg') > > img.thumbnail((800, 800), Image.ANTIALIAS) > > img.save('photo800.jpg', 'JPEG') > > > > The saved image photo800.jpg has no exif info anymore. > > I would so much like to have it retained in particular the exposure and gps > data. > > > > I use Python 2.7 with PIL 1.17 on Ubuntu 12.04 > > For exif reading/writing I use pyexiv2 0.3.2 but apparently you cannot add > tags to an image that has none; only modifying existing ones seems to work. > > > > Thanks for any helpful suggestions, > > Janwillem
Thanks Vincent, I tried that but without try-except. I should have done and with also a try except in your except it works. It appears that the failure is in a few Nikon tags that apparently can be read but not set. Setting Exif.Nikon3.0x002d failed, <class 'pyexiv2.utils.NotifyingList'> Setting Exif.Nikon3.0x009d failed, <type 'int'> Setting Exif.Nikon3.ExposureTuning failed, <type 'str'> Setting Exif.Nikon3.Preview failed, <type 'long'> Not important so I am happy with your tip. Janwillem -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list