[Digikam-devel] [Bug 131632] New: Shortcuts for better captioning workflow

[Brad Templeton]

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           Summary: Shortcuts for better captioning workflow
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: kdebug mail 4brad com


Version:           0.8.2-2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

I seek a faster workflow for captioning photographs.  In my workflow, I first identify the potential "winners" (which can be done in digikam with the new shortcuts for setting ratings.)   Then I review the winners to remove near-duplicates and in general do a second pass.

After this is done, it's time to caption, and I want to do it fast.  Without using the mouse.   Ideally I want to see a picture at decent resolution, be in the box to type a caption, and after hitting return or some other easy key, I'm on to the next photo to caption.

Currently you can do this with the tag/comment editor (F3) which puts you in place ready to write comments.  However, this only presents a thumbnail.  Expanding the window does not change the size of the image for captioning.   So making it so changing this window size (and remembering the size) would allow better captioning.   Also nice if could set my own shortcut choice (other than alt-n) to store caption and move to next image.  (Page up and page down do not work here.)

Alternately, the full image editor view could be set to also display captions, tags and rating along the bottom, and allow them to be typed and a key pressed (such as pgdn currently) would move to the next image to caption.

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Adding suggestions, for the 2nd stage of the workflow, which is review of choices, what would be ideal would be a full sized view with a single row of thumbnails showing the current picture and its neighbours, allowing easy detection of duplicates.     Today it is typical for serious photograhers to take several shots of the same interesting image.  Some of those will make it to the winner's circle, and then they must be pruned down to the single best.  In this case seeing both the big view (to judge) and the thumbs (to know what to look at for comparison) is necessary. 

Even better would be a dual view which shows two pictures as big as possible and then allows selection of which will be the winner.