[Digikam-users] workflow?

[Gilles Caulier]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 09:07 am, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> thanks for your rapid response!
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 March 2006 08:24 am, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have now been trying out digikam for about a week and
> > > have a question concerning a recommended workflow:
> > >
> > > After importing a bunch of images into a new album
> > > I would like to tag and rate them.
> > > For this one can right-click on each image, select
> > > "Assign tag" and then select the tag from the list which shows up.
> > > If one has several tags which need to be assigned to one picture
> > > (or a selection of pictures), one has to go through this sequence every
> > > time.
> > >
> > > In the end I would like to do the tagging/rating for my whole image
> > > collection of 10000+photos.
> > >
> > > The above procedure is quite time-consuming, so I would
> > > be interested in learning about a faster way!
> >
> > In 0.9.0, image properties sidebar (on the right of main interface) will
> > reduce time consuming for that. There is no dialog to open for
> > tagging/commenting/rating etc. Look this screenshot :
> >
> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-alpha.png
>
> That looks perfect!
> It is good to see that this project also has a time-machine ;-).
>
> > But multiselection tagging/commenting/rating isn't yet implemented.
> > Because it require any substential changes in the code, I think to
> > implement it later than 0.9.0 issue.
>
> To test these features would mean to use svn, right?

yes svn from 'trunk', not 'stable' branch :

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/

There are any important improvements in this code like :

- 16 bits images support.

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/16_bits_RAW_image_file_loaded_in_digikam_image_editor_using_littleCMS.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/16_bits_RAW_image_file_loaded_in_digikam_image_editor_without_colors_correction.png

- IPTC/MakerNotes/GPS viewers :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-alpha7.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-alpha8.png

- advanced zooming features in all image editor tools :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-alpha5.png

- ICC color profiles support :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikamEICtonge.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/icc_plugin.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/icc_plugin_check_gamut_option.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/ICC_setup_dialog.png

- New image editor color correction plugin preview modes :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/NewWidgetForColorsCorrectionTools.png

- New Raw files decoding settings :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/RawFileDecodingSettings.png

- A new progress bar during Loading/saving images in editor.

- All I/O image file acess are now fork to a separate thread.

And more, and more...

Any screenshots are old and any GUI/settings have been improved.

Gilles