[Digikam-users] Storing comments and tags outside the image?

[Gilles Caulier]

On Friday 17 November 2006 18:15, Paul Waldo wrote:
> I consider my images as digital
> negatives and don't want them touched once uploaded to the computer.

Let's me explain an important point about metadata : image data (the picture 
that you can see in screen) are not meta-data and vis-versa.

Both data are stored in separate sections in picture files. This is want mean 
than metadata can be changed without touch something in image data.

Gilles