[Digikam-users] Digikam IPTC

[michael hughes]

Hallo everybody,

I probably won't make myself very popular with this but here goes. I am a
professional photographer working in Berlin. I previously used macs up to
system 9 and windows xp. I am a freelancer so I have to look after myself by
and large when things go wrong. I decided to check out Linux using the CT
package after I had a head crash on my laptop and needed to install a
system. Naturally I am interested in finding an alternative to Photoshop and
Lightroom as highest priority and thought that with Ubuntu Linux had finally
got near enough to be useful to me. Generally speaking Digikam is very good
apart from the backwood aesthetics of penguins peering cheerily over
cameras, which I can frankly live without.

My main problem is the IPTC. I still have not found a way to coherently work
with this despite having spent six weeks on and off with the problem. It
begins with the preferences; you have to switch IPTC on. This is for me the
first major "policy statement". As a professional I could just about accept
that you could switch IPTC off but as a default this is just not serious. I
now find bits of information (the copyright details in prefs) in the IPTC
but am not quite sure how they got there. Captions have appeared from photos
which already had captions after being imported into Digikam. Using Tags I
have still not found an intuitive way of adding information. Maybe I just
have a blind spot - if so then tell me what I am doing wrong. Until then I
have to reiterate that Lightzone still is the more mature product


regards,


Michael Hughes

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visit my web site at www.hughes-photography.eu
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