I recently installed Shotwell, and I like it a lot. Great job! I would like to use it as the main part of my photography workflow, but I have a couple questions first.
The color profile in my camera is set to Adobe RGB, but I shoot in RAW. I'm assuming the color profile is only applied to the thumbnail in the RAW. I import all my photos into Shotwell as the first step in my workflow. It is very fast and allows me to filter my images quite quickly. What I usually do after filtering the photos is open the good ones in RawStudio and export to TIFF, and then make all my edits in GIMP. I would love to skip the RawStudio step and export directly from Shotwell. What has me a little confused is how Shotwell exports to PNG and JPEG. Does it apply any color profile by default? Normally I export from RawStudio to TIFF because it is lossless. I could export to PNG from Shotwell because I believe this is lossless as well. The problem for me is that when I open the exported PNG in GIMP, it doesn't ask me if I want to convert the color profile (like it does with the RawStudio TIFF), which leads me to believe there isn't one in the PNG. Basically, what I want to know is, can I still have a color managed workflow with the following steps: shooting in RAW (sRGB); using Shotwell to export to PNG; editing in GIMP (sRGB); and sending it to the photo lab (sRGB)? Is there a plan to add the ability to export to tiff with an embedded color profile, and if so, when? Thank you! Anthony P.S. - My current workflow in outlined on my blog - http://www.thephotographyenthusiast.com/photoblog.jsp?id=6 -- View this message in context: http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Exporting-Images-tp30088p30088.html Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
