[Digikam-users] Digikam IPTC

[michael hughes]

Thankyou for the links: I had of course read all that and it is now evident
that in Digikam it is not possible to write captions into the IPTC. My point
is proved; Lightzone is a more mature product as it can do this and handle
TIFFS.


Michael


p.s. don't bother answering if this offends you!


M

On 18/02/2008, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, michael hughes wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Good contributions for a new logo are welcome.
>
> > 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.
>
> People have different preferences and some don't
> want their images to be modified in any way.
> Therefore this is the chosen default.
> Of course, one might think of running a configuration wizard
> on the very first run, in which such things can be configured.
> Feel free to file a wish in the bug tracker.
>
> > 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.
>
> See the documentation, eg
>
> http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo
>
> http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-sidebar.html#using$
>
> > 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.
>
> More precise information is needed:
> what are you trying to do? And in which way are you
> trying to do this with digikam?
>
> > Until then I
> > have to reiterate that Lightzone still is the more mature product
>
> Honestly, don't you think that such statements could be seen as
> offensive to the hard-working developers of digikam?
> **Constructive** criticism is very welcome, but general
> statements like this don't lead to anything
> (apart from your e-mails being left un-answered in the future...).
>
> Arnd
>



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