Re: ufraw (and others) integration

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

An update on the RAW status...

- since a few days, db supports versions of images with different
extensions
- I wrote an addin that'll help you fix your actual db by merging raw
+jpeg files of the same image as only one image with versions. This will
be available very soon via the 'Manage extensions' menu entry.
- I wrote a patch for ufraw and it was accepted so f-spot can force the
output file while converting to raw. I still have to write an addin so
it "Develop in ufraw" appears in everyone's contextual menu.
- the code for reparenting an image as version of another dy drag'n drop
is already in trunk, just not compiled yet (compile with
-d:ENABLE_REPARENTING if you want to give it a try)
- code for keeping Raw+Jpeg together at import time (will make the merge
addin obsolete) will come after that

hope it clarify the situations a bit...

regards

s

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 17:57 -0400, Peter Finley wrote:
> I looked into doing something similar a while ago.  I dug around in
> the code a bit and if I remember right, I found that the biggest issue
> with this is that the database doesn't support versions of an image
> with different file type extensions.  This means that a JPEG can't be
> stored as version of a RAW file.  I couldn't think of a good solution
> that didn't involve changing the data model.  It may have changed
> since I looked at it, though (I hope so).  It was several months ago. 
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 7/16/07, David Collett <davec internode on net> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I've spent a bit of time searching the lists for where RAW
>         support is
>         currently at and where it is headed, but it's still unclear.
>         
>         What follows is a description of a simple workflow which I
>         think would 
>         suit many people in the meantime, and should be easy to
>         implement.
>         
>         My ideal workflow would be something like this:
>         
>         1. import RAW files directly from camera/memcard
>         2. right-click desired photo and select "develop in UFRAW" 
>         3. UFRAW would be launched where I can perform RAW developing.
>         4. When UFRAW is closed, the resulting jpeg would be
>         automatically added
>         as a version of the original raw image.
>         
>         Ufraw can easily be told via the commandline, how and where to
>         save the 
>         output file, suiting f-spot integration. Furthermore, Ufraw
>         can
>         optionally save an "ID" file which stores the settings used
>         during raw
>         conversion. If desired, this could be saved, so that if the
>         photographer 
>         decides they dont quite like their conversion, they only have
>         to
>         right-click and develop again and will start where they left
>         off in
>         ufraw (the resulting jpeg would become yet another version).
>         
>         Batch processing can easily be accommodated too. Suppose you
>         have a set 
>         of photos shot in the same conditions and want to batch
>         process them.
>         You can right-click/develop the first one as described above.
>         What this
>         will do is set your current adjustments into your .ufrawrc
>         file (a
>         standard ufraw feature). Now you can select all the remaining
>         photos in
>         the set, right-click and choose "develop with UFRAW", when the
>         develop
>         action is invoked with multiple selections, it will launch
>         "ufraw-batch" 
>         instead of "ufraw" (ufraw-batch comes standard with ufraw).
>         
>         Once the photographer has a good 'developed' jpeg image as a
>         version,
>         they can further edit it with the standard f-spot set of tools
>         (or 
>         externally via gimp etc).
>         
>         This may not be the holy-grail of RAW integration in f-spot,
>         but it
>         would be a big step up for those of us currently using f-spot
>         to manage
>         RAW photos.
>         
>         Can other f-spot users let me know what they think of this
>         approach? 
>         
>         Can the developers let me know where I might start
>         implementing it? I
>         figure I just need to add a right-click menu item which, when
>         clicked
>         will launch a sub-process (ufraw/ufraw-batch) with the current
>         selection, then wait on the process to complete before
>         re-injecting the 
>         resulting jpegs back into f-spot as versions. Sounds easy
>         enough?
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Dave
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