How to retain S3 exif data when modifying image ?

[S2kDriver]

I understand that retaining exif data after heavy post processing is somewhat meaningless, but what if all you wanted to do was crop, resize, or add a copyright watermark to the image? I tried adding a watermark to an image and after I'd uploaded it to flickr, the exif was gone.

Basically, what I do is open up an image in Fireworks, open up the canned watermark .png image which I'd created beforehand, then drag the watermark onto the photo, then group the two to export a new .jpg. I kinda expected the exif to disappear. But is there any way to modify a pic and retain the exif at the same time?

TIA. :)

[cvicisso]

IrfanView (http://irfanview.com/).

[S2kDriver]

IrfanView (http://irfanview.com/).

Thanks for the link. I've downloaded that program, installed it and played around with it for a bit but I still can't figure out how to take a canned watermark image and overlay it onto a photo in Irfanview and produce a new .jpg with the exif retained. Can you tell me the steps on how I would accomplish this? Thanks much in advance.

[wutske]

FastStone Photo Resizer can use png's as watermarks, it can even do that in a batch (as well as resizeing, cropping, watermarking using the exif data, ...).

Forgotten to add the link :d : http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

[S2kDriver]

FastStone Photo Resizer can use png's as watermarks, it can even do that in a batch (as well as resizeing, cropping, watermarking using the exif data, ...).

Forgotten to add the link :d : http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Thanks for the link. I've played around with this program for a few minutes. So this program retains exif info, right? Is it possible to see this info within the program? If this program keeps the exif, still a major problem with this program is that I can't choose where I want to crop the image, I would have to experiment with trial and error where the x and y coordinates are on the image that I want to crop out.