Hi, I see that Shotwell stores image edits in its database http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/help/edit-nondestructive.html. Have you guys given some thought to how you might also store those instructions in the image metadata itself? (You already support this for descriptive metadata, of course.)
Full disclosure: I work on my own photo manager, so this isn't really a user support question (I do like shotwell, however, and recommend it to people who ask for an easy to use photo manager). I mostly ask because I am about to embark on implementing my own non-destructive editing process storing the instructions (e.g. crop, rotate, brightness/level/curve/color adjustments) in the photo metadata or in a sidecar. It would be great if there were other programs doing the same thing and we could coordinate on a standard set of tags. I haven't seen any standards for doing this, but I haven't searched very thoroughly either. One option, of course, would just be to register an Xmp namespace for each program and each program can then do its own thing and do its best to import image manipulation instructions from other programs (the Wild West approach). I recognize that image manipulation instructions could be interpreted differently on different implementations, but that's a limitation of any non-destructive editing process. Keep up the good work on Shotwell! Thanks, Damien _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
