[Shotwell] A couple of questions: save, export

[Adam Dingle]

On 06/02/2010 12:35 AM, Luka Oman wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> I read and noticed the Shotwell does not save the changed photos. Is
> there an easy way of save the changed photos (album, event). Through
> export? And save them in the same folder as originals? What would
> happen?

Yes - in Shotwell today, if you want to save modified photos you need to 
use File->Export to export them to a different directory.  You shouldn't 
overwrite the originals with your modified files, because Shotwell uses 
those originals as a starting point for applying transformations.  For 
example, suppose that you've applied a 10% saturation boost to a photo.  
If you export that photo and overwrite the original, then the original 
will now contain a 10% saturation boost but Shotwell will still apply a 
10% saturation boost whenever it displays the photo, so you'll end up 
with a 20% saturation increase.

Some users, however, would like to be able to save changes to original 
files in place and have everything work correctly.  This is 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1933 .  We're considering implementing this 
in some form for 0.7 or a following release.

> I am using 0.5.2 that is shipped with Fedora 13. On export
> there is a Scaling constants option with pixel size. But If I change
> the pixel size to for example 600px then the pictures are exported,
> the changes are visible, but the size is the one of the original. Is
> this a bug or a feature? :)

It sounds like you've run into bug 1817 
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1817), which has been fixed in the trunk.  
The fix will be present in the upcoming 0.6 release.

> Although Shotwell looks promising, and I
> like the attitude of the developers, I still need Picasa on my system.
> Looking forward to version 0.6 and to see what features will be
> accepted for 0.7.
>    

Thanks!  I hope we can evolve Shotwell to be a viable replacement for 
Picasa for you at some point.

adam