Keep the approved original image immutable, and treat every display size as a reproducible derivative. The deciding constraint is a design refresh: once the only surviving file is a small crop, a new layout cannot recover the pixels outside that crop. TL;DR: store one access-controlled source, ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/callumreed2198/how-to-keep-the-original-image-for-derivatives-and-reprocessing-in-2026-1hnh)