Quote Originally Posted by Rob-Xar View Post
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@mwenz - It depends, for a website if you import and resize a photo from a digital camera, you wouldn't want to use the huge original image but an smaller, more optimized version. If it's for a print document then I'd be inclined to agree. Also if the image is changed in anyway, such as a filter applied, rotated etc then we'd have to re-export it with the changes.
I'm not really seeing a difference between web/print.

It seems to me that in addition to storing the original filename, you would just need to also save the pathname, be it a full path if outside a project folder or a relative path if in or under the project folder.

This is akin to what happens in a layout application. Output to the various export options--whether the export is to pdf, eBook, html5, etc.--doesn't alter the original image even when/if the image is sized at other than 100%, had various image effects applied, etc. But the effects/sizing is carried into the output format.