[Digikam-users] Re: need advice re: format conversion

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/1/24 Peter Shute <pshute at nuw.org.au>:
> Tom said: "All originals: convert to lossless PGF for software processing, then JPG for web use, retaining PGF for archival storage of processed image, if desired."
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> Shouldn't you be retaining the original jpg file, and creating a pgf file for each edited version you create? And that should only be necessary if you need to reopen edited files for further editing. Simple edits, like a crop, might only need a jpg copy, but perhaps that's just complicating things.
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> These steps wouldn't be necessary if digiKam had non destructive editing, like Lightroom. Are there any plans for such a feature?

Already implemented in 2.0.0 !

Gilles Caulier