Thankyou for the links: I had of course read all that and it is now evident that in Digikam it is not possible to write captions into the IPTC. My point is proved; Lightzone is a more mature product as it can do this and handle TIFFS.<br>
<br><br>Michael<br><br><br>p.s. don't bother answering if this offends you!<br><br><br>M<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arnd Baecker</b> <<a href="mailto:arnd.baecker@web.de">arnd.baecker@web.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, michael hughes wrote:<br><br>> Hallo everybody,<br>><br>> I probably won't make myself very popular with this but here goes. I am a<br>> professional photographer working in Berlin. I previously used macs up to<br>
> system 9 and windows xp. I am a freelancer so I have to look after myself by<br>> and large when things go wrong. I decided to check out Linux using the CT<br>> package after I had a head crash on my laptop and needed to install a<br>
> system. Naturally I am interested in finding an alternative to Photoshop and<br>> Lightroom as highest priority and thought that with Ubuntu Linux had finally<br>> got near enough to be useful to me. Generally speaking Digikam is very good<br>
> apart from the backwood aesthetics of penguins peering cheerily over<br>> cameras, which I can frankly live without.<br><br>Good contributions for a new logo are welcome.<br><br>> My main problem is the IPTC. I still have not found a way to coherently work<br>
> with this despite having spent six weeks on and off with the problem. It<br>> begins with the preferences; you have to switch IPTC on. This is for me the<br>> first major "policy statement". As a professional I could just about accept<br>
> that you could switch IPTC off but as a default this is just not serious.<br><br>People have different preferences and some don't<br>want their images to be modified in any way.<br>Therefore this is the chosen default.<br>
Of course, one might think of running a configuration wizard<br>on the very first run, in which such things can be configured.<br>Feel free to file a wish in the bug tracker.<br><br>> I<br>> now find bits of information (the copyright details in prefs) in the IPTC<br>
> but am not quite sure how they got there. Captions have appeared from photos<br>> which already had captions after being imported into Digikam.<br><br>See the documentation, eg<br><a href="http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo">http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo</a><br>
<a href="http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-sidebar.html#using$">http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-sidebar.html#using$</a><br><br>> Using Tags I<br>> have still not found an intuitive way of adding information. Maybe I just<br>
> have a blind spot - if so then tell me what I am doing wrong.<br><br>More precise information is needed:<br>what are you trying to do? And in which way are you<br>trying to do this with digikam?<br><br>> Until then I<br>
> have to reiterate that Lightzone still is the more mature product<br><br>Honestly, don't you think that such statements could be seen as<br>offensive to the hard-working developers of digikam?<br>**Constructive** criticism is very welcome, but general<br>
statements like this don't lead to anything<br>(apart from your e-mails being left un-answered in the future...).<br><br>Arnd<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>visit my web site at www.hughes-photography.eu