Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Does Photoshop recompress jpegs when writing XMP metadata?

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Does Photoshop recompress jpegs when writing XMP metadata?

karihi@vertex.fi

2004-12-28, 4:14 am

Hi,

A newbie question: In theory, is there a loss of jpg quality each time
adding or editing keywords for jpg-files in Photoshop CS?

Bob Williams

2004-12-30, 7:14 am

karihi@vertex.fi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A newbie question: In theory, is there a loss of jpg quality each time
> adding or editing keywords for jpg-files in Photoshop CS?
>

NO!
Only if you make some change to the image.
Just opening and closing an image or renaming it does not change the
image file.
Bob Williams