So - this photo --
Anyone know who took this one?
Thread.
1. ICC Profiles in Photoshop
Hey - my other thread talks about how this is all turning out to be, in my opinion, a cynical political stunt on the part of Senator Franken's accuser and her cohorts.
2. In it, I'm explaining how the metadata for .jpg files contains all sorts of things -- (BTW, you're going to want to delete your FB and other photos if you didn't remove the GPS entries in EXIF and took a pic in your own house.)
Well the ICC Profile is pretty interesting too!
3. No it's not. It's dull as shit. All of this malarky is dull as shit. But someone's got to do this because I don't see anything on the news about 'Holy shit! This looks like a huge scam!' - But that's okay.
4. Anyway, the ICC Profile, near as I can figure it -- makes sure when you save a file in the Photoshop program, it records the data for the monitor you were viewing it on, and other RAW type data -- to make a photo look the same on the Camera mini screen as on your desktop.
5. Or, say... a laptop! In the metadata for the photo Mrs. Tweeden kindly provided the media with (inadvertently, since it seems the press was given a version with all metadata stripped from it) -- the ICC profile also tells us what kind of color correction it's going to use.
6. I worked for a big box store, but I can't seem to identify the laptop here. Not sure how old it is - it looks like it has an expansion slot on the front for a removable drive of some kind? Or might be the 'air card' port?
7. Well the ICC profile describes the system that last touched the file as well - it's all gibberish until you see 'ASCP' and HP and think - hey, that's a model of Pavilion Laptop!
I think that's an Acer she's holding. Which means someone else 'modified' our file.
#HireMeBob
8. So we have proof the file was created by a Nikon D2H and modified on an HP Pavilion laptop in 2009 in Photoshop 7. I wish I had no scruples. I would call Adobe and ask if they could help me identify the owner of a computer through their serial number on their Adobe account.
9. Scratch that - ICC profile provided on meta page - seems to be reflecting my own laptop. Dang. So we don't know what kind of PC made the 'Last Modified' version of this photo.
Sorry folks - I'm not an expert or claimed to be one. :(
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