On 14/02/2020 10:12, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Terry Pinnell
writes:

Similarly, PSP destroys any IPTC data.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/huwlfei503...oyed.jpg?raw=1

Clearly, the wonderful PSP is far from wonderful for any data other than
the pixels!

I'm not aware of PSP doing that to anything of mine, but then that may
not mean much as, until this thread, I hadn't really bothered to
investigate things much - usually if I want to do anything like this,
it's to anonymise pictures which I plan to post on the internet, in
order to protect my privacy, such as where I live; in other words, I'm
just removing metadata rather than adding it.

However, *both* versions of PSP that I have freeze and crash; v6, which
is the only version that I have which works on W7 64-bit, fairly
frequently, v8, which works on XP 32-bit but not on W7 64-bit, only
quite rarely, so rarely that it is livable with - I wish the latter
would run on W7 64-bit.

I think I've heard that the venerable Paint that comes as part of
Windows, has finally added other formats (than .bmp) in Windows 10; if
someone reading this has 10 and it does do .jpg, it'd be interesting to
know if _that_ changes/destroys .jpg comments.

Paint will load and save PNG files, but know even less about them than
PSP, for example there is nothing under File, Properties to display any
image metadata.