Bug 514621

Summary: Consider RAW as Original version of JPEG
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: act.kde
Component: Albums-ItemsVersioningAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.8.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description act.kde 2026-01-14 22:47:01 UTC 
Hi,

I usually shoot in RAW + JPEG and end-up grouping my files by name. Which was great until I started editing my JPEG (batch operation on lots of picture that are not worth spending time on the RAW) and activate the versioning feature, ( which is great also).

But now I end-up either having 2 photo displayed ( RAW + JPEG grouped  + latest version of the JPEG edit) which is not the easiest to manage. Or only the latest version of the JPEG edit  (when hiding original) but I loose any easy access to the RAW ( need to go in the settings...).

It would be nice to have an option to have the RAW recognized (automatically or by hand)  as the initial version of the JPEG that come from the camera  and so have only one version of the picture shown and have access to all the steps including RAW in the version panel.

like IMG0001.RAW -> IMG0001.JPEG -> IMG0001_v1.JPEG ......

Which is somehow what happen in reality ( Sensors -> RAW -> JPEG ( made by camera) ...)

(This also bring the question on what to do when editing metadata does it applies on all version or latest + RAW or only latest. I have no clear answer on that point)

Thanks