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I would like to remove as much metadata as possible from an image without changing its appearance.

I have used exiftool -all= image.jpg and it works well most of the time, but quite often the colors come out different.

So instead I used exiftool -all= image.jpg -tagsFromFile @ -TAGNAME to avoid removing certain tags like "ColorSpace". Is there a list somewhere of tags that affect appearance in any way? If there isn't, any tips on how I could compile such as list? Any tags that affect appearance would be appreciated.

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Without color space information, images should be rendered using the sRGB profile. To preserve the color space information, you should preserve the ColorSpace, InteropIndex and ICC_Profile tags.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Preserving these three tags works on all the examples I have gathered. By the way, thank you for ExifTool, it's a lifesaver. \$\endgroup\$
    – Tewr
    Feb 7, 2014 at 9:18
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    \$\begingroup\$ Thank you: exiftool -all= image.jpg -tagsfromfile @ -colorspace -interopindex -icc_profile seems to work. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jens
    Nov 2, 2014 at 13:00

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