[SLUG] Solution for opening problematic photos in GIMP

[elliott-brennan <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Dunno if anyone has had this problem, but I 
thought I would share it.

Occasionally, I have trouble opening some photos 
in GIMP. UF-RAW runs crazy (I check this in a 
terminal I have running the command top) and GIMP 
stalls.

I was thinking about this today and read something 
about other photo editors having problems because 
of corrupted EXIF information in digital photos.

For info on EXIF see: Exchangeable image file format

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif

So...checking in my friendly browser I find that 
imagemagick (free, in Linux :)) can strip exif 
using the following command:

mogrify -strip <name-of-file>

or you can strip it from all images using

mogrify -strip *.<enter-file-type>

'naturally you have to make sure you're in the 
same directory as the images or send the command 
to the right place :)))

I wouldn't recommend this as a standard thing to 
do to all your photos. Exif info is useful. 
However, if you come across the problem I 
occasionally have, this might help. It seem to 
work fine for me :)

Regards,

Patrick
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