DIGITAL IMAGES CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THEY WERE TAKEN
Sometimes you look at a series of images of the same subject and you wonder what were the conditions that made one image in the series look better than the others. You might wish that you had been taking notes on what the camera settings were for this particular image. Fortunately, your camera was taking notes for you and it is very easy to access this information. Most images taken by a digital camera contain lots of information about the camera and how it was set at the time the image was taken. Lets see how easy it is to see this information.
While viewing an image on your computer hold the cursor over the image and click the RIGHT mouse button. A popup menu will open and the bottom item in the menu list should be Properties. Click on Properties and the Properties window will open. Select the Summary tab and then select Advanced. You should now see a long list of information about that image. Image size and other general information will be near the top. Lower down in the list will be the exact settings of the camera at the time the image was taken.
Your image information will look something like this:

This detailed information, known as EXIF data, will not be found in all digital images. But you should be able to find it for any image taken by a recent vintage digital camera so long as the image format has not been changed from the original. The steps above show how to access this EXIF information from Windows. You can also get to the same information from most imaging programs like Photoshop™ or Photoshop Elements™.
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