So your point is that it is a good thing that DT does not offer more
metadata fields?
I don't really agree, and I don't want one program for all my needs. I
use Rapid Photo Downloader sometimes, or Geeqie for viewing, deleting
and renaming, and then import what remains in DT. And Gimp for when Spot
Removal is not enough. It's just a matter of workflow that makes me wish
there were a couple of more iptc/xmp fields in DT. In DT I have an
almost complete overview of all my photos: the folders, the labelling
and rating, the editing, the search and a few metadata fields. But using
another metadata editor makes me loose that overview because the
labelling/rating systems are different and not interchangeable.
I don't think I have been under-utilising Gimp, or previously Photoshop.
I worked at a design firm for 7 years and worked with Photoshop a lot.
After that I moved to Linux and Gimp for my own business, but since
using the raw format and raw convertors I don't need Gimp most of the
time. And that's great, because of the non-destructive editing in raw
convertors, it saves me a lot of time. Most of my photographer friends
now use Lightroom 99% of the time and don't need anything else, while
years ago they had to do everything with Photoshop. Now Photoshop (and
Gimp) are primarily for manipulating images or for people working in the
design industry.
Op 19-05-19 om 15:33 schreef Anton Aylward:
On 19/05/2019 08:42, Kneops wrote:
Hi Anton,
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Do you mean it is a good thing DT
adds every editing step into the Exif, or that it is normal to do post
processing after editing in DT?
The latter.
Although I don't have your 'business' demands, I do consider it a necessity to
have the EXIF fields covering 'creator' and 'copyright' in every image.
*Some* of my cameras can supply this; *some* of my cameras can provide
geographic/GPS information, *some* of my cameras can not only do that but supply
name to the location. *Some* of my cameras do facial recognition, and *some* of
them remember faces and I can assign names to that memory.
Part of the reason for my rant about "film mentality" is that film as a medium
has no capability to carry metadata. As digital has become more embedded that
mentality is changing, but you still display some of it. My "film obsessed"
friends don't even expect your attitude of 'only use a single package'.
You want a package count of 1, they want a package count of 0.
I wrote earlier about the UNIX "Pipes and filters" mechanism. Many applications
under UNIX and even Linux today are not a single program. there is the ability
to read from a child process. There is absolutely no need to have EXIF code in
DT if there is an EXIF editing program on the system. Just write a LUA script
to for a child that runs the 'exif' details.
But the hurdle seems to be that you want the all-in-one approach.
Tell me, do you have a camera that can crop down from 45Mpxl to 16Mpx, use a
lens that zooms from 15mm to 500mm?
I thought not.
Some people put "author information", copyright and/or publication rights in the
EXIF (I do, manually, automated) but others want that clearly on the image.
Some professionals might put out "draft" (aka preliminary form, not to be used)
and have that a clear banner across the image.
And, lets face it, the 'layers' approach of GIMP is more suited to that than DT!
Since using DT and previous to that any other raw converter, I don't use Gimp
anymore, only to use the stamp or healing brush.
There are many more things you can do with GIMP and it is much more amenable to
scripting & automation than DT and has a enormous library of readily available
scripts. It sounds to me like you were massively under-utilising GIMP.
More to the point, GIMP, at least the later versions, has the tools to view and
edit the EXIF field in an arbitrary manner as per your stated requirement.
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