From: -ART- on
Tim wrote:

>That photo has no EXIF data.

Correct. The photo belongs to a friend of mine (Hummingbird), - not
ACF's "Franklin the forger" who pinched the picture and started this
thread and signed it as Hummingbird to aggravate people.

FYI: the FREE version of PhotoFiltre can save jpeg images as
progressive AND retain the EXIF data (see program preferences):

<http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm>


>You'll notice that as the image loads it starts as a coarse and blurry
>image and becomes more detailed in a couple of stages. This indicates
>that it is a progressive JPEG. The applications that I have that give
>the option to save as a progressive JPEG, don't allow EXIF metadata to
>be saved in that format, only in the standard format.
>Many web images are deliberately saved without EXIF or other metadata,
>partly for privacy reasons, but mainly to keep the file size down for
>fast downloading. Your sample image could easily be more than twice its
>current filesize if it contained a full set of metadata including EXIF
>and an embedded thumbnail.


-ART-