On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 18:05 -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Michael Hendry > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I expected Export to allow me to select a group of image files > - perhaps > all the files with a particular tag in common - and make > unchanged > copies of them somewhere else. It seems odd to me that a file > conversion > (to jpg or png) would be forced on me, albeit with an option > on > filesize. > > Ok -- I see now what you're asking for. Yes, this makes more than > enough sense. I've ticketed it here: > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2621 > > As I mentioned in the ticket, this would mean that no edits you've > made in Shotwell (enhance, crop) would be reflected in the RAW files. > We currently do not support writing metadata to RAW files either, so > tags (for example) would not be written out (until this ticket is > completed: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2622) > > -- Jim
I wouldn't necessarily want to roll back all changes made within Shotwell since the file was originally imported, more a WYSIWYG exercise - if the file is unmodified, it should go out as it was when it came in. Now I think about it, there should probably be several options: 1. Export files in their original forms. 2. Export as original if not already modified by Shotwell, in which case a compression option is required for the latter. 3. Export all in a compressed form (as at present). I would use option 1 for photographic print competition candidates - doing the selection within Shotwell, but going back to the original files and re-editing to get the best possible quality for a big print. Option 2 would be similar, but for presentation purposes - I'd accept the edits already done within Shotwell as a time-saver. Option 3 would be for circulation by e-mail, Flickr etc., where no further editing is required, but compression is necessary for speed of transmission. Sorry my powers of communication are insufficient to get my ideas through first time round, but these ideas are themselves in a state of flux as I get used to using Shotwell! Reflecting on the above before pressing the Send button, I can see that I could achieve the same results as options 1 and 2 by creating duplicates of the original files, and invoking GIMP (or whatever) on the duplicates, with distinct lines of descendant images for different purposes. I obviously have to change a mind-set here - keeping track of competition candidates by using File Manager to copy them into a working directory becomes unnecessary when I can skim through the whole collection with Shotwell and tag the candidates as I go. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
