[Shotwell] "Save a copy" option?

[Eric Gregory]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:58 PM, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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

Not yet!  Supporting multiple revisions of photos is something we have a
ticket for, though:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2474



> 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.
>

This is exactly what Shotwell does when you use the editing tools in
Shotwell; of course we have no control over external programs, so when you
open a photo in (for example) Gimp we export the modified photo to a JPEG
before opening in Gimp.

  - Eric