Re: [gthumb-list] Editing JPEGs and tagging photos with gThumb

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 21/01/2013 10:54, Louis ha scritto:
> Hello!
>
> I've just started using gThumb and I had a couple of questions: When I
> edit a JPEG using "adjust colours" or similar does gThumb re-compress
> the JPEG adding more artefacts or is there some voodoo employed to avoid
> this?

It is re-compressed

> Also where does gThumb save tags to? If I were to make use of tags
> and I was transferring my photo collection to a new computer would I
> need to back up a database in order to keep them?

tags are saved inside the images and in xml files saved in a 
sub-directory called .comments.  To make a backup you have to include 
the .comments directories as well.

- Paolo