

I ran it through several apps and did a variety of processing including removing the background, enhancing the colors, sharpening and noise removal.

The photo illustrating this post has a small portion of its metadata superimposed. By the time a photo is ready for sharing on the internet it carries quite a data load. We all like to add some tags, comments, titles and descriptions of our own. The apps used to do post-processing add entries of their own, delete some that are there, and alter some information. Smartphones do the same and also add GPS data to show exactly where the picture was taken. Cameras add data about the camera and its settings in an area outside the image data. We generally refer to that as the EXIF data although there is actually a lot more, a better term to use is metadata.

Photo files contain a lot of information besides the image.
