<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much for this excellent discussion!<div><br><div>I am also coming from Picasa Desktop and I also miss this "Virtual Album" feature. It was so easy to pick up the pictures for desired use cases like:</div><div>* Sending some (but not all) photos to the family.</div><div>* Select photos for printing</div><div>* Select photos for a collage</div><div>* for uploading to an online album</div><div>etc.</div><div>Additionally, my standard tree structure is not the same as the name of a virtual album.</div><div>I sorted my pictures in a timely manner using \year\year-month-day ID</div><div>But a virtual album was able to link photos from different folders and had a completely different name like: "holiday in austria"</div><div><br></div><div>So what could be done now to file a feature request for digiKam and find other supporters?</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">bjnovick <<a href="mailto:bjnovick@msn.com">bjnovick@msn.com</a>> schrieb am So., 16. Okt. 2016 um 07:18 Uhr:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">First, thanks for everyone's input! I imagine with the end of life of Picasa<br class="gmail_msg">
there are many others like me who are looking for solution. I checked out<br class="gmail_msg">
almost all the other options, but none seem to be as close as Digikam is.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Let me give you all a little more details on the workflow for our family. I<br class="gmail_msg">
take the photos, download them to our archive, and organize them into a<br class="gmail_msg">
structure on disk. Currently we have about 75000+ photos. I tag them with<br class="gmail_msg">
key information such as who we visited, where we visited, event that I took<br class="gmail_msg">
them at (i.e. dance recital, etc..), key family moment, etc... At that<br class="gmail_msg">
point the images can be searched and are organized. Great, I can do the<br class="gmail_msg">
same in Digikam and in some cases even more efficiently!<br class="gmail_msg">
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However, that is not the end of the story. Sometime later, my wife wants to<br class="gmail_msg">
create what is equivalent to a photo album or scrap book that you might find<br class="gmail_msg">
on your coffee table. This gets shared with others either through<br class="gmail_msg">
slideshows/email/web or sent off to be printed and sent to family members.<br class="gmail_msg">
She has no interest in how the photos are stored on disk. She wants the<br class="gmail_msg">
"virtual" album to exist and be persistent so a year or two or 20 from now,<br class="gmail_msg">
when she wants, she can look back and see what photo's were used. She is<br class="gmail_msg">
going to pick from the pool of photos and is not trying to organize the<br class="gmail_msg">
photos. Picasa has 2 things in the view that makes this easy: 1) a<br class="gmail_msg">
Folder/Tree section which is equivalent to Digikam's Albums. It can be<br class="gmail_msg">
traversed just like the album view in Digikam 2) a "Picasa Album" section<br class="gmail_msg">
which shows a virtual collection of photos. It is these virtual collections<br class="gmail_msg">
that are more akin to the coffee table photo album.<br class="gmail_msg">
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In picasa these are the total steps she needs to take:<br class="gmail_msg">
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1) Click create album and give it a name<br class="gmail_msg">
2) She searches through the pictures I have taken by either traversing the<br class="gmail_msg">
tree structure or searching tags. When she finds a photo that she wants she<br class="gmail_msg">
puts it in a tray by hitting a short cut combination (I don't remember the<br class="gmail_msg">
key combo).<br class="gmail_msg">
3) When she is done collecting the ones she wants she right clicks and<br class="gmail_msg">
selects something akin to "send to album"<br class="gmail_msg">
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Thats it. She is done. No great expertise required. Later, she can sort<br class="gmail_msg">
the albums by date or when you do a search it includes album names.<br class="gmail_msg">
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In digikam a virtual album through the predefined searches seem like it<br class="gmail_msg">
might partly fit the bill, but it is a bit more complicated and conceptually<br class="gmail_msg">
different:<br class="gmail_msg">
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1) Create tag "ALBUM - BLAH BLAH"<br class="gmail_msg">
2) Find photos and add ALBUM BLAH BLAH tag. When you have a lot of tags<br class="gmail_msg">
this becomes harder to do as the tag list gets quite large. However, when I<br class="gmail_msg">
showed tags to my wife it immediately became confusing as a photo can gets<br class="gmail_msg">
multiple tags and then all show up at once and when choosing a tag the tag<br class="gmail_msg">
list is rather long as we have lots of tags. This can be partly worked<br class="gmail_msg">
around by using subtags but still not the prettiest view.<br class="gmail_msg">
3) Create an advanced search that looks for ALBUM BLAH BLAH<br class="gmail_msg">
4) Save search as virtual album<br class="gmail_msg">
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Why not just select photos and click "Add to virtual album"? Also, you might<br class="gmail_msg">
consider calling it something else instead of an Album since in Digikam<br class="gmail_msg">
Album already has a specific purpose. Maybe "ScrapBooks" as this is more<br class="gmail_msg">
equivalent to scrap booking.<br class="gmail_msg">
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