On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Shaun Crampton <[email protected]> wrote: Hi,
I'm trying to import a library from iPhoto with lots of adjusted/cropped/rotated photos. I'd like to keep the originals safe but also import my edited copies for display. Does shotwell support anything like that (managing an original and externally-edited file) at present or is all its editing done by reapplying edits at display time? Both are true. :) If you make edits within Shotwell, Shotwell doesn't write those out to the external file - instead, the edits are reapplied at display time. But if you use Shotwell's Open With External Editor command to edit a photo with a program such as GIMP, then Shotwell manages both the original and the externally edited file. Typically the original will have a name like IMG_0729.JPG and the externally edited file will be named like IMG_0729_modified.JPG. Unfortunately Shotwell isn't smart enough to be able to import both the original and modified versions of a photo and associate them with each other. If you import from a directory containing IMG_0729.JPG and IMG_0729_modified.JPG, these will be imported as two separate photos. If the support is there I can probably write a script to import the database (iPhoto seems to maintain an XML doc listing the library and shotwell uses sqlite) but I don't really want to have to re-edit 20,000 photos! It would certainly be nice if Shotwell could import from an iPhoto database while preserving both the original and modified versions of each photo. You could consider implementing this as a Shotwell plugin, since Shotwell allows plugins to provide new import sources (importing from F-Spot is implemented via such a plugin). Cheers - adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
