Marc Lehmann wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:39:39PM +0200, Lourens Veen <jsr@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I think this is built in the save routines, I don't think there is a > > separate comment attached to an image. It sounds like a useful feature > > to me though. > > actually, there is standard for that (and it's even implemented), in that the > gimp-comment parasite stores the comment. > > this is not currently editable (AFAIK, unless you call "save as" a > comment-editor), but it will be in a future version. I look forward to the future version. Looking at JPEG images already on the web, all I see in the comment field are a few adverts for Photoshop, yet the field is easily accessible (at least in PHP) so could hold copyright statement and/or the text for an <img> tag alt= parameter. There is also something called the EXIF header for population by digital cameras and the example shown on the PHP site is: CameraMake: Eastman Kodak Company CameraModel: KODAK DC265 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA (V01.00) DateTime: 1999:06:14 01:37:36 Height: 1024 Width: 1536 IsColor: 1 FlashUsed: 0 FocalLength: 8.0mm RawFocalLength: 8 ExposureTime: 0.004 s (1/250) RawExposureTime: 0.0040000001899898 ApertureFNumber: f/ 9.5 RawApertureFNumber: 9.5100002288818 FocusDistance: 16.66m RawFocusDistance: 16.659999847412 Orientation: 1 ExifVersion: 0200 In my opinion, having been a professional photographer way back before the invention of digital cameras (or electricity :-)), the information is useful if I can refer to it when first editing a shot and should be removable when merging images, so that the final image does not end up with something misrepresenting the result. Your responses to my questions are prompt and useful. I will direct Windows users to look at Gimp before PaintShop Pro and a couple of other tools.
