Privacy Implications of Transparent Pixels

Posted by AwesomeTux on Nov 15, 2019 8:56 PM EDT
barkdull.org; By Jacob Barkdull
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Save color values from transparent pixels? You may have seen it in your favorite image editing program. What does this option do? Well, it does what it says. If you leave this option checked when you export your image, any pixels you erased will be saved in the exported image. They will not be truly erased, just made fully transparent. This option has privacy implications. With it enabled, what you erase from an image may still be present in transparent pixels.

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