Affinity Photo 2 beta 2.1 EXIF Software field not being updated

[AlanV2]

I'd like to evangelize for GrayFox's issue from December 2022.  Version 2.1.0.1709 beta does not write an EXIF Software tag identifying itself after an image has been edited and saved.

I use FastStone Image Viewer 7.5 to view my images (and display them on Google maps with the built-in link).  I also use this as a check to know if I have processed a batch of images from Affinity, or whether older images were processed instead with my previous editor, my scanner, or Kodak's commercial scanner (from Photo CD's).

[Chris B]

Hey AlanV2, do you have a link to the thread?

I've searched our database and the only issue I found relating to an EXIF tag. I want to see if this is the same thing and I want to avoid logging any duplicate reports etc. 

 

[Hangman]

Hi @Chris B, I think this is the thread in question...

[Chris B]

Thanks @Hangman

@AlanV2 That is indeed the same thread I was thinking about. This was closed as 'by design' because EXIF standard states that the Software field is about what created the image (more info here, page 40) and has nothing to do with software that edits it later on. That's what the 'history' fields are for and we do write into those. That was discovered on the older thread.

 

[AlanV2]

OK, I read the standard and understand your decision to close the issue.  It's curious, though, that Microsoft's old editor and Paint Dot Net both decided to appropriate that field for their own use, while retaining Make and Camera Model Name from the scanner.