[LUNI] Hello

[Tyler Stoffel]

There are really two core functions missing from the Gimp, a) batch
processing, which I never use anyway, but someone with a
hundreds-of-photos-a-day workflow, ie a wedding shooter, would find it very
useful; and b) an IPTC editor. IPTC is a text sidecar protocol that allows
you to embed a caption into the jpeg. The Gimp has its own version of info
embedding, but it is unable to be read by Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, and the
other proprietary software used by the papers that buy my photos. But,
according to the Gimp's home page, IPTC protocol embedding is in the works.
As for now, some clients allow me to send the captions as .doc attachments,
or in the body of an email (I email all my work to the buyers) I do have one
client that insists on IPTC captions (the Sun Times News Group), so I use my
girlfriend's Photoshop on her HP laptop (WinXP) to embed captions for that
one client.

Tyler Stoffel

On 2/8/07, Demetri Mouratis <dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey Tyler,
>
> Welcome to the list.  I liked hearing about how you use the Gimp instead
> of Photoshop.  I'm neither a photog nor a imaging processing guy but I
> have been trying to convince friends who are both that Linux/Gimp can do
> what they need.  They usually scoff and point to missing features in the
> Gimp.  I'm sure you would know if core functionality you needed was
> missing and would gripe too.
>
> -D
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