Round Tripping

[Michael Naylor]

Is there a single photo editor out there that doesn't screw up the metadata?  One that I can confidently round trip from PM6+ and back again.

[DavidHoffmanuk]

David Reicks' Controlled Vocabulary list <ControlledVocabulary@groups.io> and site is very good on metadata preservation and which apps do what.

David Hoffman

[Michael Naylor]

Is there a single photo editor out there that doesn't screw up the metadata?  One that I can confidently round trip from PM6+ and back again.

I think I may have found one:
It's called Pixelmator Pro and is available on the Apple App Store.

NB: after editing an image and exporting back to a PM+ folder, don't save the Pixelmator .pxd into the same folder, because PM+ will also scan the .pxd.  Save it somewhere else or simply delete it.

[Dub]

CameraRaw/Photoshop is my choice with PM for a few years now...

 

[mklass]

Unfortunately, Adobe apps strip a fair amount of meta data when you save to something other than teh RAW file (PSD, TIFF or JPG for example). For instance, the lens description and white balance info in Nikon RAW files is gone.