[Shotwell] "Save a copy" option?

[oliver]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Eric Gregory wrote:
> 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;
[...]

oh. cool. :-)


Does it also have better than 8-Bit per channel resolution?



> 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.

GIMP is not non-destructive at the moment, so calling gimp means
editing is destructive.

Future versions of Gmp will allow non-destructive editing (GEGL-lib).
then it might somehow be possible to integrate both programs.


Ciao,
   Oliver