> never used the CR2 images before, but it > seems like I should import those to shotwell > where I have them, rather than importing the JPG files.
The best way to do this is to drag both the CR2 files and JPG files into Shotwell in the same import operation. Shotwell will then stack both the RAW and JPEG file into a single RAW+JPEG pair. That should give you the most flexibility in terms of using your camera-generated RAW development, etc. > So should I write a one-time script to generate > .xmp sidecar files for each image, containing this > metadata I want to preserve? Shotwell won't be able read the associated XMP sidecar files, so this isn't the way to go. Write your information to the photo files themselves, where possible (note that some RAW files get very upset if you try to update their metadata in the file). Now, as regards your albums. According to your spec, photos can be placed into more than one "album". So I think the proper Shotwell abstraction to use here is a tag. If you write your "album" information into the Iptc.Application2.keywords field or the Xmp.dc.subject fields, Shotwell will extract it and tag your photos appropriately on import, creating new tag objects where needed. Lucas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
