Hi Tsweeney123x, you're doing everything correctly. Most photo editing apps behave as you suggest - they replace the thumbnail whenevery
any change is made. There are a few however that don't do anthing w/ the thumbnail when small changes are made like a crop or blur (older versions of Photoshop for example). Unfortuntely this trick will only work w/ a small percentage of photos. Whenever I see a pic that was obviously cropped or that had soomething interesting censored, I check the thumbnail just in case