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Posted by Vintage Lens Lover on 2023-03-30.
Sometimes when exporting photos I want to create multiple different resolutions: full resolution JPEG at 90% (say), 2160px max height JPEG at 80%, 1080px max height JPEG at 75-80% and maybe an even smaller thumbnail too. Often I would like to strip out all the metadata too.
I gather some Windows and Mac users use JPEGmini, is there an option for Linux or would it be a good thing to add to Ansel’s export section? At the very least it would be good to have a ‘clear EXIF data’ option. What are your thoughts?
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