On 19/05/2019 08:42, Kneops wrote: > Hi Anton, > > I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Do you mean it is a good thing > DT > adds every editing step into the Exif, or that it is normal to do post > processing after editing in DT?
The latter. Although I don't have your 'business' demands, I do consider it a necessity to have the EXIF fields covering 'creator' and 'copyright' in every image. *Some* of my cameras can supply this; *some* of my cameras can provide geographic/GPS information, *some* of my cameras can not only do that but supply name to the location. *Some* of my cameras do facial recognition, and *some* of them remember faces and I can assign names to that memory. Part of the reason for my rant about "film mentality" is that film as a medium has no capability to carry metadata. As digital has become more embedded that mentality is changing, but you still display some of it. My "film obsessed" friends don't even expect your attitude of 'only use a single package'. You want a package count of 1, they want a package count of 0. I wrote earlier about the UNIX "Pipes and filters" mechanism. Many applications under UNIX and even Linux today are not a single program. there is the ability to read from a child process. There is absolutely no need to have EXIF code in DT if there is an EXIF editing program on the system. Just write a LUA script to for a child that runs the 'exif' details. But the hurdle seems to be that you want the all-in-one approach. Tell me, do you have a camera that can crop down from 45Mpxl to 16Mpx, use a lens that zooms from 15mm to 500mm? I thought not. Some people put "author information", copyright and/or publication rights in the EXIF (I do, manually, automated) but others want that clearly on the image. Some professionals might put out "draft" (aka preliminary form, not to be used) and have that a clear banner across the image. And, lets face it, the 'layers' approach of GIMP is more suited to that than DT! > Since using DT and previous to that any other raw converter, I don't use Gimp > anymore, only to use the stamp or healing brush. There are many more things you can do with GIMP and it is much more amenable to scripting & automation than DT and has a enormous library of readily available scripts. It sounds to me like you were massively under-utilising GIMP. More to the point, GIMP, at least the later versions, has the tools to view and edit the EXIF field in an arbitrary manner as per your stated requirement. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
