RE: aperture

[Philippe Desaulniers <philippe desaulniers averna com>]

Hello,

On an related note: I haven't seen what Aperture actually
supports, but they seem to have something supporting 
multiple versions of a file (is it only for raw?)

In any case, this is something that I've been pondering 
upon for a while:

One of the most annoying things with photo management
and retouching is to have several copies of the same 
image, each with different manipulations yielding 
different results. They all take a considerable amount 
of disk space, and I feel awkward every time I delete a 
Photoshop (or Gimp) native file after the job is done, 
because I loose all history of the manipulations that 
were done to the original.

What I'd *really* like would be a tool that only keeps
the original, and as many versions as I like of 
"manipulation history scripts" to generate modified 
versions with my favorite image editing tool. If one 
day I want to generate a new copy, or come back on 
an old picture when I find out a new trick that seems
to do a better job at something I was trying to achieve, 
then I can do it easily, and without adding yet another
tens-of-megabytes file to my hard drive (yes, potentially
at the cost of looking at a hourglass icon for a few 
minutes...).

I understand this is not easy, because it requires a 
tight integration between the photo management tool and
the image manipulation tool, but it just seems to me like 
something that Makes Sense. Photo management tools should
be good at managing photos, image manipulation programs
should be good at manipulating images, and since they 
both belong to connecting parts of the same workflow, they
should have a standard way of talking to each other...

Does someone know anything that may have been done in that 
direction, by anyone (commercial or open source?)? 

Thanks!

phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: f-spot-list-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:f-spot-list-bounces gnome org]On Behalf Of Larry Ewing
> Sent: October 20, 2005 1:02 PM
> To: jimmac ximian com
> Cc: F-Spot
> Subject: Re: aperture
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 00:22 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> > Howdy folks,
> > 
> > Fresh from the news dept -- Apple has released an "iphoto for pros",
> > called Aperture (http://www.apple.com/aperture). One thing I noticed
> > straight away was the use of dark colors on the canvas as 
> (just like the
> > default o.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. theme, ej?). The next thing was the $500
> > pricetag ;)
> > 
> 
> There is nothing stopping you powerful artists (wink) from designing a
> darkroom variation of one of the nicer themes then we could apply that
> theme to just f-spot.  The hard part is trying to mix custom 
> colors with
> other themes.
> 
> > The other noteworthy thing is the looking glass previewing 
> an image at
> > 1:1 while hovering over a thumbnail and applying the same 
> settings on
> > many raw images with the (lift & stamp). Everything else is 
> a reality
> > thanks to larry's fearless raw hacking recently :).
> 
> Yeah both of theose are very cool, the settings is probably easier in
> the short term than the loupe.  I'll keep pondering the loupe 
> but back to
> hacking.
> 
> --Larry
> 
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