Here's something I find baffling.
The differences between 1.jpg and 2.jpg is that the latter is stripped of EXIF data and the file size is obviously smaller.
Useful to know if you want to keep the EXIF data with the .jpg (or not). Is there a simple explanation for this?
As I read your bullet list, 1.jpg is effectively created from the original jpg (using its EXIF data) despite the fact that you have saved it as a cpt whereas 2.jpg is created from the cpt (which, of course, has no EXIF data).
"should" is the operative word but see... http://community.coreldraw.com/talk/coreldraw_graphics_suite_x7/f/811/t/45267
...which you contributed to, by the way ;)
let me reveal my ignorance, after an image is opened and edited what part of that data is relevant?
David Milisock said: let me reveal my ignorance, after an image is opened and edited what part of that data is relevant?
All of it!
It should be your choice as to what to keep/discard, surely? CPT shouldn't be a lossy format but I can understand why it is. Even so, it has niggles that could be resolved for some of us - and very simply too.
Phil1923 said:The PSP photography group will not even allow entries into their contests if the EXIf data is missing
Do they demand un edited images? I would think a photography club might want true captures not edits.
Surely, photography has always been about manipulation - from the light, to the subject, to the technology of capture, to the format to the medium, to the use of time, to the use of depth of field, to the use of filters, to cropping... etc. "Art" pictures are all about manipulation, where EXIF data is of little use anyway. In any case, I dare say there's EXIF editing software out there that will allow you to change anything and fool anyone of what you've done.