[Digikam-users] Should digiKam have an embedded image extractor tool ? Was: Building a better raw conversion tool for digiKam ?

[Adam]

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> From: Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 4:53:50 PM
> Subject: [Digikam-users] Should digiKam have an embedded image extractor tool ? Was: Building a better raw conversion tool for digiKam ?
> 
> Now that I realize that raw files contain one or more embedded jpg
> images, some of considerable size, I'm wondering if a tool should be
> added to digiKam to extract the image in addition to or in lieu of doing
> a raw conversion ?
> 
> Here I am sitting with several thousand raw files with no jpgs.  I only
> need a full size jpg for images that are going to be printed in large
> formats.  As we know from our discussions here today, generating jpgs
> from raws that consistently look as good as the in camera jpgs is time
> consuming.
> 
> So why don't I just generate all my jpgs from the jpg embedded in the
> raw, at least as a starting point.  I can do that via a command line
> script easily enough and I probably will.
> 
> This brings about an interesting question: is there demand to build this
> functionality right into digiKam ?
> 
> Thanks 
> 


I would not mind seeing that as an option.  It could make some of my work easier. When ever I take pictures of my fmaily, I save almost all of them. I shoot in RAW only so I would need to convert the bad to semigood ones then delete the original. If I could, right off the bat, strip out the jpg I see in the preview, and it be big enough for maybe 5x7. I would use it.