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Does anybody know how to export files from DPP into Gimp while maintaining EXIF data ? It seems that Gimp is unable to read EXIF info from a TIFF file so it strips it on save to JPEG.

E-K wrote in post #7002661
What version of UFRaw are you using? I believe support for the XSi was added in dcRAW 8.84. You would need at least version 0.14 of UFRaw(October 2008 ) which uses dcRAW 8.88.

e-k

Oh, ok. That's helpful.

Amamba wrote in post #7021288
Does anybody know how to export files from DPP into Gimp while maintaining EXIF data ? It seems that Gimp is unable to read EXIF info from a TIFF file so it strips it on save to JPEG.

Some info on this from development community:
http://lists.xcf.berke​ley.edu …008-September/012869.html

It appears that someone with coding experience needs to update the .tif plugin to handle the exif information correctly.

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #7028689
Some info on this from development community:
http://lists.xcf.berke​ley.edu …008-September/012869.html

It appears that someone with coding experience needs to update the .tif plugin to handle the exif information correctly.

Thanks. Do you know of any freeware that allows copying EXIF from CR2 or Tiff to JPEG ?

Another question... it seems that if I edit a RAW file in DPP and save it as RAW (ie with edit recepie), only DPP knows that - i.e. if I then try to open same file in UFRaw or Irfanview the edit's not there.

Is it simply not possible, or do I have to do something differently ?

Amamba wrote in post #7031847
Thanks. Do you know of any freeware that allows copying EXIF from CR2 or Tiff to JPEG ?

This will allow you to do it: http://www.sno.phy.que​ensu.ca/~phil/exiftool​/

Amamba wrote in post #7031880
Another question... it seems that if I edit a RAW file in DPP and save it as RAW (ie with edit recepie), only DPP knows that - i.e. if I then try to open same file in UFRaw or Irfanview the edit's not there.

Is it simply not possible, or do I have to do something differently ?

It's not possible. Only DPP understands the meta data that the recipe is stored as.

e-k

Bought a very good book on gimp tutorials this week, extremely helpful and thurough.
http://search.barnesan​dnoble.com …el/e/9781593271​213/?itm=2

Hi

This is a great thread! I'm very new to photography and processing. I have now downloaded Gimp to see if this is the tool I want to take my learning further with. However I was wondering if I could get some pointers. There is a thread here about street sceens which took my interest :

https://photography-on-the.net …?t=630554&highl​ight=topaz

The chap has taken some great shots and used topaz adjust on them. I have followed the links to the website and would love to apply some effects similar to this.

So my question is : are there any effects/filters/tools etc in gimp which would acheive something similar.

Don't know about Topaz, but there is a Gimp plugin called "pspi" which allows you to use some Photoshop plugins in Gimp.

http://www.gimp.org/~t​ml/gimp/win32/pspi.htm​l

thanks troypiggo

also the site you mention, links to "flaming pear" which have some free plugins which look interesting.

This thing is AWESOME!

Has anyone else recently lownloaded GIMP version 2.6.4?

I tried following the "smart sharpening" tutorial (written in 2002!) and got quite frustrated. The instructions have apparently not kept up with the newer version's menus and options.

LV Moose wrote in post #7202621
Has anyone else recently lownloaded GIMP version 2.6.4?

I tried following the "smart sharpening" tutorial (written in 2002!) and got quite frustrated. The instructions have apparently not kept up with the newer version's menus and options.

Do yourself a favour and get the refocus plugin and the smart sharpen (redux) script to do it all for you. I'll assume you're using Windows for the refocus plugin link.

troypiggo wrote in post #7202708
Do yourself a favour and get the refocus plugin and the smart sharpen (redux) script to do it all for you. I'll assume you're using Windows for the refocus plugin link.

Downloaded refocus plugin, and can't get it to work. It's from April 2008, and for version 2.4

Works fine here on my Gimp 2.6. Just to be sure:
- you're using Windows?
- where did you put the plugin?
- did you get the smart sharpen script?
- where'd you save it?
- did you close and reopen GIMP?

I don't use the refocus plugin directly. I use the smart sharpen script and tick the "use refocus" check box in the dialog box.