The Details tab provides a closer view of the information PhotoSanitize discovers during analysis. It is particularly useful when a finding needs investigation or when you want to understand what a file contains before applying a sanitization profile.
Details is divided into Metadata, Container, Provenance, and File System views. These examine different aspects of the selected image, and each can reveal information that would not be apparent in an ordinary image viewer.
Metadata
The Metadata view displays recognized metadata entries and associated values. You can filter the entries using All, Privacy, Technical, and Provenance.
EXIF is one of the most common metadata formats in digital photography. It may record exposure settings, camera information, lens details, capture dates, orientation, and GPS coordinates. Some entries are useful for photography, while others may be unnecessary or sensitive when the file is shared.
XMP is widely used by image-editing and asset-management applications. It can contain descriptive information, processing details, and other properties written during editing.
IPTC information is often found in professional photography and publishing workflows, where it may record captions, creator information, and related editorial details.
The Privacy filter helps you concentrate on entries that could disclose information about the photographer, equipment, or circumstances of capture. Technical provides a view of image-related properties, while Provenance focuses on information connected with origin and authenticity.
Not every photograph contains all these metadata types. The available entries depend on its format and history.
Container
An image container is the file structure used to store the encoded picture and any associated information. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and WebP use different structures, and some allow additional content beyond the main photograph.
The Container view lists recognized elements and their available properties. It can help explain why an image contains an embedded preview, additional media, unusual data, or information not directly represented by the visible picture.
This is especially useful when handling files received from outside your organization. The image may display normally while containing additional structures that are irrelevant to its intended use.
The Container view is intended for inspection. You normally remove unwanted content by selecting an appropriate sanitization profile rather than manually editing individual container elements.
Provenance
The Provenance view displays detected C2PA Content Credentials and relevant validation information.
Content Credentials may carry signed claims about an image’s origin or editing history. PhotoSanitize distinguishes their presence from the question of whether the credentials validate successfully and whether their signer is trusted.
This distinction matters for photographers, publishers, media organizations, and others who receive images with provenance information. A valid signature supports the integrity of the signed credential, but it does not establish that everything depicted in the photograph is true.
If a required manifest is referenced remotely and has not been retrieved, complete local validation may not be possible.
File System
The File System view describes properties associated with the image as a Windows file. It can include the file path, size, timestamps, and relevant NTFS information.
NTFS alternate data streams deserve particular attention because they are separate from the ordinary contents of an image. Windows may, for example, associate download-origin information with a file through a stream named Zone.Identifier.
Such streams are not EXIF metadata, and ordinary image viewers do not normally display them. PhotoSanitize can inspect relevant stream information and perform applicable checks on sanitized outputs.
Using the inspection results
The Details views describe the analyzed source image. They do not automatically update to describe a sanitized output simply because sanitization has completed.
For the output, use the Verification tab and open the resulting file when visual inspection is needed.
When handling customer images or organizational records, these distinctions help avoid confusion between what was detected in the original, what the selected profile attempted to remove, and what verification subsequently confirmed.