On May 19, 2005, at 1:28 AM, danilo wrote:
... I made a shell script (sorry for linux only) that automatically extracts the embedded jpegs from every crw (canon raw) files in the directory, it takes few seconds for 50 images so it's fast... Jpegs are fast browsing previews, then you choose the ones you like and open them with the GIMP. (this is what I do) I'd like to give it to you, but I understand you all use WinDOS or Mac OS X, so it is useless (maybe in the MAC OS X environment it may work, how knows??, do you want to try it?) I also made one other script that extract the EXIF and wirte it into a text file named as the original photo but with a different extension (example gratia: crw_1245.info).
Um, Canon CRW files are not the same format as Pentax PEF files. Probably similar with respect to the embedded JPEG at some level, but your script or the tools it calls to do the job might need to be modified a bit for the PEF format.
If your script is bash, tsch, or csch based, it should be able to run in Mac OS X with maybe some small changes, presuming the tools it calls are available for Mac OS X. If you send it to me, I'll be happy to try it out.
BTW: I can't imagine it being much faster or more convenient than Photoshop's File Browser or the iView Media Pro application, which read the RAW files and produce a preview thumbnail/image catalog directly without having to run a script at all, and display the EXIF metadata on demand.
The GIMP is surely better than PS elements, anyone who has used both should agree with me on it... and it costs nothing...
I've tried every successive version of The GIMP: I can't agree with you on that. To me, Photoshop and its simplified version, Photoshop Elements, is a much more productive piece of software to learn and use: it pays back its purchase price in a very short time if you're doing photography for a living.
Just my opinion ... If The GIMP works for you, surely they've done something useful. ;-)
Godfrey
