On 11 December 2012 21:53, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin, the only problem I see in this method is that most of Shotwell's > transformations (color correction, straighten, red-eye) are not stored as > metadata in the file, so those won't be converted. Orientation (i.e. > rotation) will if you have metadata writing turned on (which will also store > tags in the metadata). > > Otherwise, I think the technique you describe will work just fine.
OK, thanks. The images were all processed before being imported so that is not a problem. Thanks, I will give it a go. I have the images and shotwell db backed up so even if I mess up I should be able to recover ok. Colin > > -- Jim > > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a large number of png files imported into Shotwell and tagged, > with the metadata being written to the files. The png files are > typically 10MB and I find that if I convert them to jpg the size > reduces to around 1.5MB with no discernible reduction in quality. In > retrospect I would of course have been better to convert before > importing and tagging but it is too late for that now. > > Following experimentation it appears that if I convert each file to > jpg in the Shotwell pictures directories (using imagemagick, which > appears to retain the metadata) then when I start Shotwell (with Watch > for New Files set) then it automatically imports the jpg files and > correctly picks up the tags from the metadata in the image. If I then > delete the original images I guess they should be moved to Missing > Files from where I can remove them from the library. Can anyone see > any problems with this? Perhaps there is a better way. > > Colin > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
