GIMP and metadata

[ozzyprv]

This is question somewhat related to DK...but not 100%.

How do you guys do to re-write the metadata that is lost after opening files with GIMP? Or to prevent it from being lost.

As part of my workflow, I pass some pictures from digiKam to GIMP for further enhancement. Every time I do this all the tag, labels, etc are lost.

Any work around?

Thanks.

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Ah... Gimp and metadata.

Why it will be to digiKam to restore metadata that a photo manipulation software as Gimp delete when file is saved.

Definitively, no... For me it's a shame for a photo manipulation software to don't take a care about metadata.

Report this urgent problem to Gimp team. The software solution exist, as Exiv2 shared lib manipulate properly metadata in image.

Best

Gilles Caulier

2011/7/4 Ozzy <[hidden email]>

This is question somewhat related to DK...but not 100%.

How do you guys do to re-write the metadata that is lost after opening files with GIMP? Or to prevent it from being lost.

As part of my workflow, I pass some pictures from digiKam to GIMP for further enhancement. Every time I do this all the tag, labels, etc are lost.

Any work around?

Thanks.

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[Dmitri Popov]

As a workaround, you can save a backup copy of the original photo and edit the original in the GIMP. Use then the Image -> Metadata -> Import EXIF command in digiKam to copy the metadata from the backup photo to the modified original. This is not the most elegant solution, but it's better than nothing.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Dmitri

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This is question somewhat related to DK...but not 100%.

How do you guys do to re-write the metadata that is lost after opening files with GIMP? Or to prevent it from being lost.

As part of my workflow, I pass some pictures from digiKam to GIMP for further enhancement. Every time I do this all the tag, labels, etc are lost.

Any work around?

Thanks.

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[gerlos]

Il giorno 04/lug/2011, alle ore 08.39, Gilles Caulier ha scritto:

> Ah... Gimp and metadata.
>
> Why it will be to digiKam to restore metadata that a photo manipulation software as Gimp delete when file is saved.
>
> Definitively, no... For me it's a shame for a photo manipulation software to don't take a care about metadata.
>
> Report this urgent problem to Gimp team. The software solution exist, as Exiv2 shared lib manipulate properly metadata in image.

There's a bunch of bugs open in Gimp's Bugzilla about this problem:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629044
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620552
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61499

In some of them there are some tips pointing to the source code to change to solve the bug.

I'm not a programmer, and can't help, but hope that some one reading here could do something for it.
Together with 32-bit support, this is one of the biggest flaws of Gimp in my opinion.

regards
gerlos

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