[Digikam-users] Workflow with gimp

[Anders Lund]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your input :)

On Torsdag den 2. januar 2014 17:51:01, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Am 02.01.2014 17:27, schrieb Anders Lund:
> > I will probably do the raw conversion using digikams editor, and global
> > adjustments, but after that I will need an external application, so
> > 
> > - which fileformat is best? png, tif, jpeg?
> 
> I use png. Good compression (I use 5). All information remains.
> tiff files are too large IMHO
> jpeg is lossy, I only convert to jpg in the end for the web copies

I'll try with that :)

> > - concerns about metadata?
> 
> I don't care about metadata in the edited images. I always strip the
> original metatdata (it remains in the raws which I never delete). But I
> guess this is not typical for many users...

Well not me, at least, I like metadata in the images :) So fra, gimp behaved well, 
it maintained about all meta data from a jpeg I tested with.

> Happy new year!

:)

I guess gimp will take some time to learn, but boy, I wish I could do adjustment 
layers/masked layers, healing brush and so in a KDE app :)
(Krita does some of that, but not all)

-- 
Anders
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