Re: [Gimp-user] Exporting files

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:50 PM, EGoldman <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
> > I had a point and shoot camera that only shot in Jpeg so after I did all my
> > levels and curve and contrast changes, I would always export as Tiff file so I
> > would have a negative/master file of my pic.
> >
> > I have just bought a  Canon DSLR which I can now shoot in the Raw, my question
> > is after I make my color corrections, how should I export the file so I have a
> > negative/master?
> >
> > Any guidance would be so appreciated.

Sorry, that email got sent off half way through the first sentence.

I would suggest using either XCF - if GIMP is your primary program for
doing things. If you are using GIMP 2.9 though; I would suggest
converting your images after load to 32 bit floating point linear, and
storing the "negatives" as EXR files; which is a well defined
high-fidelity format that more software packages than GIMP is able to
load.

/pippin
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