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author David Barts <n5jrn@me.com>
date Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:38:26 -0700
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       choice of metadata to be scrubbed, click “Wash” and all offending metadata
       will be removed. A dialog will pop up showing the metadata remaining in
       the new, washed file.</p>
+    <h3>Important: Run ExifWasher Last!</h3>
+    <p>Most image-editing tools insert telltale bits of metadata into the output
+      they create. Thus, only way you can create a file with the minimum amount
+      of metadata in it is to run ExifWasher as the final step in your image
+      preparation.</p>
     <h2>Output Files</h2>
     <p>ExifWasher never modifies an existing image file. Instead, it creates a
       new file of the same type but with “_washed” appended to its name. For
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       metadata key, and those that match a key prefix. The latter end in an
       asterisk. The whitelist is case-sensitive; i.e. the entry <code>exif.image.colormap</code>
       <em>will not</em> match the <code>Exif.Image.ColorMap</code> key.</p>
+    <h2>That’s about It</h2>
+    <p>ExifWasher does not, and probably never will, do anything but remove
+      extraneous metadata.</p>
+    <p>First, I have no desire to re-invent the wheel. There are already
+      excellent open-source tools like Gimp for image editing, and ExifTool and
+      Exiv2 for general-purpose metadata editing (in fact, ExifWasher is built
+      on top of Exiv2). If you need the functionality of some other tool,
+      download and use it!</p>
+    <p>Second (and more importantly), I want ExifWasher to be simple, and
+      therefore easy to learn and easy to use. The more challenging an
+      information-security tool is to use, the less likely it is to be used
+      frequently, and the more likely it is that compromising information gets
+      disclosed.</p>
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