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Remco, Sveinn,<br>
Thank you for your responses. I really appreciate them. I finally
had a chance to try your suggestions, and yes, they help. However,
I have a few more questions:<br>
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<li>Remco, you said that you don't use the Digikam Image Editor.
What image editor do you use, and why? I am very much searching
here to get a photo management system working, and am interested
in other people's thoughts on all parts of it.</li>
<li>I tried using the various different labels (pick, color,
rating) for marking photos that I want in my presentation.
While I could mark any photo with any label, I could set up a
filter only for the rating (stars). To set up filters I went to
the right sidebar>Filters, then to the bottom and clicked on
a flag (color), a color box, or a star. Maybe I did something
wrong. Would you advise?</li>
<li>While the rating (stars), and color (colored box around the
thumbnail), and pick (colored flags) show in the thumbnail mode,
the pick label does not show in the preview mode. Is there some
setting to make this show? I am running Xubuntu 17.04 and
Digikam digikam-5.8.0-20180107T063018-x86-64.appimage.</li>
<li>Regarding my comment about using Export to remote storage from
Gwenview, Digikam's Export to remote storage does not work in my
version. In fact, it has not worked in any of the older
versions of DigiKam I have used.</li>
<li>Do you know of any way to get all the details from "Slideshow"
into "Presentation". Only File Name and Captions seem to show
in Presentation mode while several others show in Slideshow.
However, Slideshow won't accept a Presentation List, so I am
forced to use Presentation.<br>
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<p>Thank you very much for your time,</p>
<p>Ralph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/07/2018 09:55 PM, Remco Viëtor
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<pre wrap="">On lundi 8 janvier 2018 01:46:59 CET lachenmaier wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I am just an amateur photograph (and amateur user of Digikam and Xubuntu
17.04). My main use for a photo manager is to build a presentation to show
my friends. For example, a presentation of our latest Africa trip. I may
also need to doctor up some of my photos a little. In addition, I would
like my presentations NOT to be complete copies of my original photos, but
just a list of photos taken from my photo database. I picked DigiKam,
because it was recommended as the best photo manager for Linux, and it
allows creating a list of photos to be included in a presentation without
copying the photo. However, I am finding that the "work flow" to creating
a presentation list is incredibly awkward. I am hoping somebody can tell
me of a different "work flow" that will be less awkward.
To add a photo to my Presentation List I go through the following steps:
Scan thru photos using Preview mode until I find a photo I want to include.
Click on Image Editor to see if I want to doctor up the photo a little. I
often use Color>Auto Correction. Maybe go to Light Table and compared the
doctored image to the original to see if I want to keep it. If in Light
Table go back to Image Editor.
Click on OK.
Click on "Save as New Version".
Click on the DigiKam main window to go back to Preview mode.
Put my cursor on the Thumbnail in Preview mode and wait 3 or 4 seconds for
the Properties window to pop up so I can find the file name of the photo I
want to add to the presentation list. For some reason file names, while
listed in Thumbnail mode are not listed in Preview mode, and putting my
cursor on the large selected image won't bring up the Properties window.
Pull down the View menu and select Presentation. A thumbnail of the photo
I want to add is now in the Presentation window. Click "Load a Saved List"
to bring up a window that allows me to select the file, which contains the
Presentation List I am building. Double click on the Presentation List file
name. The old list, plus the photo I am adding, is now in the Presentation
window. Click on the "Save List" button in the Presentation window.
Select the same Presentation List file that I am building.
Click Save.
Click on "Yes", when the message "Another test presentation already exists.
Do you want to replace it?" Click the Close button to close the
Presentation Window.
Repeat the 16 steps above for the next photo that I want to put in the
Presentation List. Does anybody have a better "Work Flow" for building a
Presentation List. If so I would appreciate you describing it!!!!
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First, in such cases I don't add each photo individually to the presentation,
but I work in several steps:
1 - In the Digikam main view, cycle through the series of images and *mark*
the ones susceptible to be included in the presentation. Basically this /
rejects/ all images that are of insufficient quality (out of focus,wrong
exposure, bad composition, ...), no consideration is given to storyline or
length of the presentation.
If you double-click on an image in the main window, it will be shown large,
and you can navigate to the next or previous image with mouse or keyboard
without needing the thumbnail view.
For marking you could use rating (Ctrl-1..Ctrl-5), or pick labels
(Alt-0..Alt-3). As you don't leave the large view, this step is rather fast.
2 - Filter out the rejected images, and (still in single-image view) edit
those of the selected images that need it (note that I don't edit in Digikam).
3 - Select the images to be included in the presentation (in thumbnail view)
and save that selection. This allows me to see all the images I want to use
and already think about the story line, and keep an eye on the number of
images in the presentation.
Note that with this workflow you don't need to remember the filename of any
image (eliminates your step 8 completely) and you don't need to reload the
future presentation for every image (your steps 10-15 get replaced by one save
operation).
Reasoning: I prefer dealing with one thing at the time:
1- is this image good enough to be included? No consideration of storyline or
length of the presentation at this time.
2- edit images, where I look at getting the best result per image
3- create the final presentation, again using labels (I often use a color label
in this stage, or a tag if I think I'll need the selection more often).
Basically, this replaces your steps 8-16 by just one activation of the
presentation dialog.
Hope this helps,
Remco
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