[Digikam-users] Workflow with gimp

[Anders Lund]

Hi Jean-François,

Thanks for your input :)

On Torsdag den 2. januar 2014 18:15:57, Jean-François Rabasse wrote:
> Hi Anders,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Anders Lund wrote:
> > I will probably do the raw conversion using digikams editor, and global
> > adjustments, but after that I will need an external application, so
> 
> I use Gimp, I've been using it for the last ten years and I've kept my
> habits when starting using Digikam (three years ago only).
> (Humans are lazy and reluctant to changes :-)
> 
> > - which fileformat is best? png, tif, jpeg?
> 
> If you work with Gimp, probably the best working format is Gimp .xcf
> That way you will keep all your work, selections, layers, masks, etc.
> and just export to a web compatible format, .png or .jpeg, when
> creating the final image.
> 
> To feed Gimp from your original photos, it will depend on how you
> want to process your raw files.
> If you do that inside Digikam, you'd probably be better to produce
> .png, as Daniel Bauer said, and edit it with Gimp (saving results in
> .xcf, and final result in .png or .jpeg).
> But Gimp provides a UFraw plugin, so if you work with UFraw (just
> another software based on Dave Coffin library, dcraw) you can open
> your raw files with Gimp, without intermediate format.

I'll give it a try, but I really like digikams editor and I find making global adjustments with 
that. Avoiding the extra file have some value :)

> A matter of taste...
> 
> > - concerns about metadata?
> 
> Current Gimp versions, 2.x, have a broken metadata support.
> It will change soon, with Gimp 3.0, but as for today don't expect
> Gimp to protect your metadata.
> The best way, inside Digikam, is to edit and produce sidecar files
> for your images. This will keep your metadata safe and off the way
> of XMP metadata killers programs.

Right, the XMP data. Gimp seems to keep exiv data OK though.

-- 
Anders
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