07-02-2007, 01:05 PM

I have been searching the web to the answer to my question but have been unable to find it anywhere, so i thought i'd try here. I have a picture that has a thumbnail different than the actual picture. My question is, is there any way to revert the picture back to the way it looked in the thumbnail. I find the thumbnail more attractive and this is the only copy of the picture i have. There must be some record of the picture tied up in the file data somewhere in order for it to produce such a thumbnail... Is there anyway to retrieve that and create a whole new picture from it?

07-02-2007, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by arwelsh

I have been searching the web to the answer to my question but have been unable to find it anywhere, so i thought i'd try here. I have a picture that has a thumbnail different than the actual picture. My question is, is there any way to revert the picture back to the way it looked in the thumbnail. I find the thumbnail more attractive and this is the only copy of the picture i have. There must be some record of the picture tied up in the file data somewhere in order for it to produce such a thumbnail... Is there anyway to retrieve that and create a whole new picture from it?

It's the other way around, unfortunately (there is a record of the thumbnail tied up in the photo data somewhere).
Here's a good explaination (with a link to the infamous Cat Schwartz nude thumbnail incident)
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/012372.htm

07-02-2007, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by voiceofra

It's the other way around, unfortunately (there is a record of the thumbnail tied up in the photo data somewhere).
Here's a good explaination (with a link to the infamous Cat Schwartz nude thumbnail incident)
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/012372.htm

So can i not create a new picture from that metadata?

07-02-2007, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by arwelsh

So can i not create a new picture from that metadata?

Nope. The simplest definition of metadata is that it is data about data.

07-02-2007, 04:14 PM

Well if you're talking about an image in iPhoto, you should be able to right click and select 'revert to original'.