<div dir="ltr">How does digiKam handle changes made from external programs (like RawTherappee)? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Marcel Wiesweg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de" target="_blank">marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">yes it does...<br>
there is no standard (at least was not 8 years ago)<br>
we assign a unique id to edited images,<br>
we store the history as XML in Xmp.digiKam.ImageHistory that refers to among<br>
others to this id, and some secondary identifiers like filename / file size<br>
IIRC<br>
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> Is there any metadata associated with a final photo that indicates its<br>
> "source", the original file it started with?<br>
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> I'm working with digiKam as my DAM, and using RawTherappee and occasionally<br>
> LightZone to process photos. I'm also learning how to use the queues to<br>
> processed RAW photos within DigiKam.<br>
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> I'm thinking that if I start off with MyPhoto.RAW, I can create derivative<br>
> photos from it and preserve the history by using filenames, e.g.<br>
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> MyPhoto.RAF<br>
> MyPhoto.thumb.jpeg<br>
> MyPhoto.bw.jpeg<br>
> MyPhoto.final.jpeg<br>
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> Is that the best way? Or is there metadata somewhere that points back to<br>
> the original photos (Sidecar file, EXIF, etc.)<br>
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> I figure this must be a pretty common question, and that maybe DigiKam<br>
> already handles it.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
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> Tac<br>
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