[Shotwell] "Save a copy" option?

[Eric Gregory]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:07 PM, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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

No, the only area of the program that would support this is the external RAW
editors.

We do have a ticket to eventually support a 16-bit pipeline, probably via
GEGL:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1624


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

Which is why we export a copy of the photo before sending it to Gimp! :)



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

That would be very, very cool.

  - Eric