[Digikam-users] Migration from Photoshop

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/3/16, Peter Nijs <peter at familienijs.be>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to migrate from Adobe Photoshop Album. I've got over 5k
> photo's, so
> re-tagging isn't an option. So I'm trying to automate this. With the
> tool "PSATool" I've managed to put the tag information from Photoshop in a
> text file. Here's a small sample of the file.
>
> --BEGIN EXTRACT--
> d:\documenten van peter\mijn
> afbeeldingen\fotoapp\DSCN1655.JPG;615;photo;online;2004-07-07
> 20:27:35;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (29/07/2004
>
> 14:21:43)";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"Amerika";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"Chinatown";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"San
> Francisco";"Verzameling"\"VSA"
> --END EXTRACT--
>
> Each line in the file represents one picture. It contains the filename and
> tag
> information plus some, for me, irrelevant information.
> Till the first semicolon: The path in Windows. Only the filename is
> relevant
> to me since all the pictures are in the same folder on my linux box. Note
> that this is not the case on my windows-installation.
> Than, the next relevant information starts just past the "import date".
> Everything past here is tag information. Each tag is seperated by a
> semicolon. For example "Amerika" is a subtag from "USA", wich is a subtag
> from "Plaatsen". This picture should get the tags Amerika, Chinatown, San
> Francisco and VSA.
>
> I'll give some more extracts with some curiosities.
>
> ---->
> d:\documenten van peter\mijn
> afbeeldingen\fotoapp\canon\IMG_4957.JPG;2342;photo;online;2005-03-30
> 15:40:30;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (4/09/2005
> 17:03:34)";"Canon"
> <----
>
> Note the different folder this image was stored in. It should get the tag
> Canon.
>
> ---->
> D:\Documenten van Peter\Mijn
> afbeeldingen\fotoapp\DSCN3144.MOV;2533;video;online;2005-11-19
> 13:41:56;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (3/12/2005
> 17:27:48)";"Mensen"\"Familie"\"Sander";"Bezigheden"\"Paardrijden";"Filmpjes"\"Paardrijden
> -
> filmpjes"
> <----
>
> Note that this is not a picture. This line doesn't have to be imported.
> But if
> it was a picture it should get the tags Sander, Bezigheden and
> "Paardrijden -
> filmpjes".
> The tag "Sander" has to be located in the 'super'tag "Familie" wich should
> be
> in the 'super'tag "Mensen".
>
> All my images are stored in /home/peter/Pictures/ now. So with no
> sub-directories.
>
> I'm using version 0.8.2 of DigiKam on KDE 3.5.5 on openSuse10.2. I haven't
> upgraded to the latest version because the suse packagers haven't put the
> latest vesion in their update program. And I don't like to mess around
> with
> something that is already working great.


But you mising something important. digiKam 0.9.1 can recreate automaticly
the tags  using the IPTC keywords  embeded in images. I Photoshop album
support IPTC, why not use it ?

Can you send me in private some pictures to test here with my computer ?

Gilles Caulier
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