[Shotwell] RAW support in Shotwell

[Jim Nelson]

Thanks for your comments (and praise!)  gegl is something we're
investigating, as well as color profiles.

Just curious, did you learn any more about the initializing problem
with your camera?  I highly recommend upgrading to the latest gPhoto,
which is 2.4.9.

-- Jim


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:49 PM, asubedi <asubedi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently heard about Yorba and Shotwell and installed Shotwell in
> Ubuntu 10.4. Compared to F-spot it's pretty good and it is really
> responsive. I also plugged in my Cannon 40D to import my photos. But
> it did not work. However, Nautilus and F-spot could download the pics.
> Before filing a bug, I thought I would try to fix it myself and have
> checked out the source from subversion. There seems to be some bug in
> initializing the camera through libgphoto but I haven't pin-pointed it
> yet. I'll do some work this weekend and if I don't make any progress,
> will file a bug.
>
> Regarding the RAW support, GEGL based work flow would be the best :-)
> In the meantime, I would probably prefer use of libraw if I used
> Shotwell. I am a (very) amateur photographer and I do most of my
> photoprocessing in my MacbookPro using the software that came with
> Cannon (Digital Photo Professional). I do not own Photoshop and find
> that the simple program suffices my needs. The only modifications I
> make on my photos are change brightness, contrast, tone, saturation,
> and sharpness. I also modify histogram curves that correspond to
> various picture styles -- landscape, portrait, faithful, etc. One
> thing the Cannon DPP does not do is rotate pics by arbitrary angle (so
> I can level the pics). However, the main reason I am beholden to my
> Mac  for my photography is the colour profile management. Hopefully,
> some thought has gone into incorporating and managing ICC profiles.
>
> Best,
> Alaska
>
> PS: Another thing for which I use my Mac is viewing and playing the
> MIDI of Powertab files using TabView. I hope Fillmore will fulfill
> this need someday. Good luck for you Yorba guys!
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