Assigning different titles to 2 instances of GIMP?

[Giles Orr]

On 16 August 2011 03:53, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  I think I've figured out a workaround.
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 03:09:19PM -0400, Stewart Russell wrote
>> I suspect Walt's need for two versions will be something to do with
>> script compatibilty. His workflow is not my workflow, but his workflow
>> is okay ;-)
>
>> On 8/15/11, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Given the gimp can handle multiple files at once, I am courious what
>> > circumstance would make having two instances useful.
>
>  What I do is...
> * go and shoot a bunch of photos somewhere
> * dump the RAW and JPG files off the camera's SD card to a "saved"
>  directory on my harddrive
>
> and do the following loop
>
> 1) Open the next .DNG raw file with 1st GIMP instance
> 2) Decide whether I want to use that photo
>   if not, GOTO 1
>   otherwise, CONTINUE
> 3) Tweak/crop as necessary
> 4) Save as a .PNG to working directory
> 5) bin the .PNG using imagemagick in a shell script.  See binning
>   explanation http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/glossary/binning.html
>   The benefits are of binning...
>   - binning by a factor of N reduces noise as if you had used a lower
>     ISO when shooting. E.g. downsizing by 4 means 4309x2868 => 1077x717
>     for the raw files from my Pentax KX.  An ISO 400 shot looks like
>     it was shot as ISO 100.
>   - the local camera club rules say submissions must not exceed X 1024
>     and Y 768.  So I still have to crop the X.  If I crop the original
>     image, I might bin by a factor of of 2 or 3 instead.
> 6) open binned copy of file with 2nd GIMP instance and do final cropping
>   and save as PNG
> 7) run another shell script that calls imagemagick to do final
>   sharpening and save as JPG (camera club rules).
> 8) GOTO 1
>
>  Note that steps 1 and 6 open files in different directories.  An
> instance of GIMP remembers what directory it last opened a file in.
> Navigating back and forth between directories can be painful.
>
>  Sometimes the answer is so simple.  My workaround, that I'll try next
> time, is to symlink all the raw DNG files into the work directory.  This
> results in me working in the work directory only.  I can open the "1st
> instance" using mc (Midnight Commander), and close after saving.  The
> "2nd instance" will be persistant, i.e. I'll close the file window, but
> not the instance.

My workflow takes the photos from the camera to a dated folder for
unedited photos.  I then use an image viewer to go through all the
photos: I edit a text file, making notes about which photos I want to
work on.  Then I do the actual editing in GIMP.

The middle step is obviously where we differ: my camera produces JPG
images, I don't know how Linux image viewer support is for DNG.  And
you might choose to just create soft links in another directory for
the photos you wanted to work on rather than editing a text file - I
find the text file useful as future notes.  To me it makes more sense
to do the choosing stage with a viewer (designed for viewing) rather
than an editor (designed for editing) ... but you may be limited by
DNG support.

Hope this helps.

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