Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:24:49 -0800 From: Akkana Peck <akkana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sven Neumann writes: > Assuming your camera adds EXIF info, are you seriously telling me > that you do not run 'exiftran -a -i' on each and every image you > ever shoot and instead use GIMP to rotate them? Add another voice to all the others saying "No, I leave my originals untouched, and only edit copies". Unfortunately, thus far you and I are the only ones taking this position. I can't speak for every single photographer in the world, but as a matter of general principle, you don't mess with your negatives. The one thing I do to them is chmod 400 so I don't accidentally write over them. However, I use kimdaba (which is EXIF-aware) to index them. If I want to edit a particular image, I'll read it into the GIMP (which I can do from right-click in kimdaba), save it elsewhere (that's why the chmod 400), and then start editing it. If a particular application isn't EXIF-aware, tough on it. The ones I care about are kimdaba, the GIMP, and Photoprint, when it's ready (which one of the Gimp-Print developers is working on). Having to dismiss a completely irrelevant warning every time I want to edit a digital photograph is simply annoying. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
