[Shotwell] "Save a copy" option?

[oliver]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:40:47PM -0700, Eric Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:31 PM, caccolangrifata
> <caccolangrifata at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > gz for 0.11 cheers! =D
> >
> > Shotwell is a non-destructive photo editor. It does not modify your
> > original photographs, [cit.]
> > so when I make a change to some photo I'd love having an option that
> > permits to save that change to the disk (something like
> > photoname_modify.jpg) in the same folder without asking the path.
> >
> > That because this is my workflow
> > 1. Import Photo into Shotwell
> > 2. Make some adjustment
> > 3. Save the change to the disk
> > 4. Use my own script to add a sign and resize the photo
> > 5. Upload the photo to flickr
> >
> 
> That's exactly what Shotwell does today if you click "open in external
> editor."  You could set your script to be the external editor -- if I
> understand correctly that would be exactly the behavior you want.
[...]

Is that also for more than one edit (adding a number (revision) to the filename?)

BTW: When reading "non-destructive photo editor" I would assume somethiung different.

Like an editor that has only one source file and allows work on the
picture data WITHOUT the need to save the changed data seperately.

Something like one source picture and a queue/pipeline of editing commands,
which say, how that one file would be edited.

If the operation would be "non-destructive", then several changes of one
initial file could be created without the need to save many resulting versions.

Then just a lot of editing commands would be necessary to save.

The GEGL library is intended to provide such functionality.

Not sure that shotwell offers that functionality.


Ciao,
   Oliver