[Digikam-devel] Non-destructive image editing

[Andi Clemens]

On Friday 17 July 2009 09:27:43 Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> On Friday 17 July 2009 07:48:03 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > There is 2 way to apply non-destructive photo editing :
> >
> > 1 save resulting images in a queue of tmp file (PNG is the best
> > format) and register this queue to database .In digiKam GUI, use can
> > see a preview of each version and choose the right in workflow.
> > Problem is space consuming, but it's fast.
>
> Even with modern storage space it may be too space consuming. This feature
> will be needed mostly for advanced amateurs up which use dSLR cameras with
> big pixel count and RAW format, resulting in big TIFF/PNG files.

And PNG takes ages to save (especially in digiKam, though I don't understand 
why, Gimp is much faster), so restoring the workflow will be quite fast, but 
saving will take forever (like applying an action list would do, to).