should be fixed now – sorry for the inconvenience!
BTW, this was due to a new feature that I’ve just added, i.e. the option to store the processing parameters in the output image metadata. This is enabled by selecting this (in the preferences):
Hi Alberto, @agriggio. Cool! Without inspecting your source, do you compress the processing parameters? I have some pp3 files of 15 kB, and iirc there is a 64 kB size limit for Exif. Adding 15 kB is quite a hefty addition. Also, in which tag do you store it? Can you also extract it again somehow?
Zip compressed and base64 encoded, then stored in a custom xmp tag.
Well yes, otherwise there wouldn’t be much point I think… Anyway, you can just use the output image as a sidecar (I.e. when you load the parameters from file, if you select a jpg with embedded arp, it will be extracted and used). This is not new btw, at least darktable and iirc rawproc do something similar (and possibly also other tools)
Does the output jpg with the embedded Metadata have to be in the same folder as the raw file if you want to use it instead of a sidecar file for editing the raw file?
It’s not used automatically. The parameters are still saved in the arp sidecar for raw files. But you can use the jpg by loading it explicitly. It’s meant to replace the arp files that are generated on output, not the master arp for raw files. That is not going away…
I just noticed that when I say ‘Save processing parameters with image’ and I save a raw file twice as jpg and 16-bit tiff, the last one lacks a lot of exif info (shutter speed, aperture, etc.).
I noticed a second thing. I switched off ‘Save param in image’ in the Save dialog and saved as tiff again. No arp to be seen. Then I said in Prefs | Im.Proc ‘Save as a sidecar file’ (was still at save in img). Saved again, again no arp file.
So no need to upload a raw at this point I guess.
Me again. The exif data gets truncated when you say in Prefs ‘Save metadata in image’ AND you say in the Save dialog the same AND you save as 16-bit tiff. JPG is okay. Repeatable.
Second, in the Save dialog I was confused by the option ‘Save proc. param. with image’, I thought it would embed these data into the image. But that’s not the case. Better change the description to 'Save proc. param. next to image.
It’s really simple: the easier it is for me to reproduce, the higher are the chances to get this fixed quickly. Unless you are absolutely certain that it has happens for all raw file types, for all camera models, and for all processing parameters, the yes, I do want your nef and arp. If you are uncomfortable with sharing something sensitive, you just send me a dark frame, as long as it triggers the problem. Thanks!
This has been like that for a number of years, and it has always produced an extra sidecar file…