[Digikam-users] Workflow with gimp

[Jean-François Rabasse]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Anders Lund wrote:

> 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.

Take care, as it depends on Gimp versions :

Gimp 2.x, up to version 2.8.4, preserve Exif metadata but destroys
XMP metadata if any in the original file.

Gimp 2.8.6 kills also Exif metadata.

So, tests are required, and safe solutions (sidecar files) are useful
anyway.

Regards,
Jean-François