Re: Versions of Photo's

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Hi,

Complete versioning (read create jpg versions of raw images) is still
impossible due to design limitations. The code for handling this
correctly exists but it's not yet part of the source tree. The good news
is that it will be very soon (in some weeks maximum).

If you can't wait for that, and already want a way to reassign images as
version of others, I posted a patch to this mailing list a few months
ago. Search the mailing list for that.

regards

stephane



On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:21 +0200, Ton Biegstraaten wrote:
> Hi,
> Recently I adopted f-spot (3.5) as photo manager. A feature I like, is 
> to be able to have different versions of a photo.
> It has however 2 limitations (for me at the moment :-) ). First of all I 
> have made some thousands of photo's before adopting f-spot and did a lot 
> of processing on them. To include the adjusted photo's as versions of 
> the originals is not directly possible.
> The second limitations is that it is not possible to have versions with 
> different extensions. I use a lot of RAW images, and those can't have 
> versions. You usually make jpegs or gimps of them, but they aren't seen 
> as versions of the original. At the moment I make jpegs of RAW images 
> before importing them, so I have both in F-spot. Adjusting the RAW 
> results in a new jpeg with the same name as the one that is existing, 
> but now you have always two equal photo's in stead of different 
> versions. At the moment you can't easily hide the RAW's.
> 
> Looking at the database (with sqlite3) shows that you can add versions 
> yourself, so old versions can be imported with some clever scripts.
> I like to know how other people solve these issues and if it is planned 
> to allow versions with different extensions in the future. The naming 
> convention of versions in the database doesn't make this straightforward.
> Apart from this, I think f-spot is a very fine and fast tool with a 
> perfect user interface
> 
> regards,
> Ton
> 
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