Use of external RAW editor saves in bad file format; resulting image is not imported into Shotwell
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Link to original bug (#718206)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2011-11-01 04:53:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 4335
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4335
Searchable id: yorba-bug-4335
Original author: Jan Moren
Original description:
I try to use UFRaw 0.18 with Shotwell 0.11.5 under Ubuntu 11.10.
- When I edit a RAW image with UFRaw the file format is ppm (!), giving a huge file as a result.
- The resulting image is not imported into Shotwell again in any form, and I can find no way of importing it manually.
What I'd expect:
- RAW file format should be either PNG or Jpeg (Jpeg preferable; user selectable would be nice).
- The resulting file should be imported into Shotwell, into the same Event (not sure about the English name) so it's easy to find.
The feature is thus largely useless, and listing it as a feature of Shotwell is misleading.
As far as I understand, this is what I have to do:
- not import any images from the camera into Shotwell.
- Instead, import into a temporary directory.
- Process all images in the directory, with UFRaw and Gimp as needed.
- Once I am done, I take the finished images to yet another temporary directory
- I import those images into Shotwell
Which makes me wonder what Shotwell really does for me that simply keeping stuff in date-sorted subdirectories myself doesn't already do?
Related issues: duplicates shotwell - Feature #3061 (closed): improve interaction with external RAW editors (Open)
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-01 11:46:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Clinton Rogers about 2 years ago
Hi,
This isn't actually a problem with Shotwell, but rather a setting in UFRaw.
By default, UFRaw tries to save exported raw images in .PPM format because the PPM spec allows for sixteen-bit colour components, while JPEG and PNG do not. You can configure this in UFRaw by:
- In the righthand sidebar, click on the 'Save' tab (on my machine, this is immediately to the left of 'EXIF' and to the right of 'Crop & Rotate').
- Immediately to the right of the box labeled 'Filename', there is a file format drop-down. Set this to the desired format.
- After doing this, edit the image like you normally would, then click the 'Save' button in the lower left.
This will tell UFRaw to use a format Shotwell can read and modify directly.
Comment 2
Updated by Clinton Rogers about 2 years ago
- Status changed from Open to 5
Comment 3
Updated by Adam Dingle about 2 years ago
- Resolution set to duplicate
Also: yes, when UFRaw saves a JPEG it would be nice if Shotwell could detect that and associate the JPEG automatically with the original RAW photo. That's #3061 (closed). I think this ticket is more or less a duplicate of that one.
Comment 4
Updated by Jan Moren about 2 years ago
Thanks - I had no idea why UFRaw set ppm as file format. Once I changed it, it seems to stick with Jpeg. The saved jpeg still doesn't show up in Shotwell, though. I'll investigate that further.
Comment 5
Updated by Adam Dingle about 2 years ago
The behavior you're seeing is expected: there is no mechanism in Shotwell which will automatically import a JPEG saved by UFRaw specifically. It might be nice to have one, though: that's #3061 (closed). In the meantime, if you enable Shotwell's auto-import capability ("Watch library directory for new files" in the preferences dialog) then it will automatically import a JPEG saved by UFRaw if it is saved in your library directory. Even then, however, the imported JPEG will show up in a separate event from the event containing the original RAW photo. We'd like to improve that too: that's #3565 (closed).
Comment 6
Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago
- Status changed from 5 to Duplicate
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:55 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 4335 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4335
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Resolution: RESOLVED DUPLICATE