On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:36:35PM -0700, Eric Gregory wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:27 AM, oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > > it seems the non-destructive editing only holds for short moments. > > > > When I edited one picture and looked at the next, > > I could not make the changes of the former picture > > undone. > > > > This sounds like a possible bug in the undo/redo stack. Do you have a > sequence of steps that makes this occur? If so you could file a bug (or just > e-mail, that's fine too).
Hmhhh, it seems the problem occurs, if shotwell was quitted. When started next, the Undo-hierarchy is not available. > > We only write changes to disk when you "export" a photo. Did you try > reverting all changes to the photo? Or if you just want to temporarily see > the original photo, you can hold down the Shift key when the photo is open. Yeah, this works fine. Thank you for the hint. :-) If the Undo-hierarchy also could be used after quitting and executing shotwell again, then this would be nice. > > > > > Also, when non-destructive editing is really possible with > > shotwell, then saving the editing sequence, instead of the resulting > > picture. > > With the save eediting sequence, the editing could be done on the fly > > from the src pic and with the recipe/editing sequence. > > And much space would be saved too, because only the editing recipe must be > > saved, > > not the whole resulting filr (or files, if many). > > > > Good news -- this is exactly what Shotwell does today! OK, fine. :-) > > The bad news is you can't enable/disable individual steps in the > transformation "recipe" or apply those changes in a batch to other photos. Not so fine. This would be really nice. > The second part isn't as straightforward as it sounds, since photos with > different dimension and color profiles can't use the same underlying > transformation data for certain types of transformations. Hmhh, but at least for some transformations this would work: "enhance" the picture and "red eyes removel" for example couold just be done - independent of the picture size, I think. When cutting a picture is done, this could maybe be done via pixel-coordinates, or relative coordinates. At least the later should also work with pictures of many different sizes. Such a "recipe" or "workflow" could be tried on a picture, and applied if it is possible, otherwise not applied, or the user could be asked, what to do, if a step in this list of editing commands could not be applied. Ciao, Oliver _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
