Re: f-spot in a photo workflow

["Alexandre Prokoudine" <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

Aigars,

This is a great review. However, I disagree on going versions way.

If you create versions from JPEG files, you lose useful data everytime
you make an adjustment and save it. Only several operations can be
done to JPEG in a lossless way, and operations like color adjustment
and sharping are destructive.

Instead I suggest going effects chain way, similar to Picasa, but more
versatile. The main issue is that most effective would be having
either photos manager and graphics editor in one application (this is
what digiKam guys are planning for post 0.9.0), or two separate
applications talking to each other in a way that you pretty well
described, with the only exception - all changes should stay
non-destructive. With stuff like adjustment layers we have no excuse
for saving extra files really :)

I would still leave versioning for print/web separation. Do you want
me to elaborate on non-destructive part?

Alexandre

On 8/3/06, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using F-Spot for my photographic needs (couple gigs a
> month), but for too many times I have found myself struggling against
> F-Spot to accomplish the things that I wanted to do. Far too any times
> I had to go out of F-Spot and use other apps and self-written scripts
> to accomplish tasks that should be easy to do in F-Spot.
>
> So, today I took my time to write out my workflow, how F-Spot should
> fit into it and what features need to be adde to F-Spot to that
> effect. Many of those features have been requested y many people
> before, but I try to unite them into a full workflow filling the
> blanks and generalising common parts.
>
> Here is the result:
> http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/07/31/spot-focus/
>
> It would be very nice if we could make a discussion about that and
> build a roadmap of new features for F-Spot based on that workflow.
>
> P.S. Apparently moderation of this list is not too frequent, so I had
> to subscribe to get this message in.
>
> --
> Best regards,
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Alexandre