[Digikam-users] New User: is digiKam right for me? and if not, what alternative?

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Yuval Levy wrote:

> Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >     simlyinking the sqlite database file looks good to me, but IMHO album =
> >     folder is bad.
> >
> > ??? Why ???
>
> because it is an artificial limitation to a single mode of working,
> while human beings work in different modes.
>
> I've seen photographers who simply arrive to the office and dump their
> flash card onto one single folder. So their folder structure is
> something like:
> pictures/DCIM/390CANON/
> pictures/DCIM/391CANON/
> pictures/DCIM/392CANON/
> ...
>
> they don't bother to do anything else.
>
> Then there are those like me who store their pictures in one folder per
> shooting, sorted by date and with names that have some indication as to
> the location or subject:
> pictures/071124montreal
> pictures/071125pontjacquescartier
> pictures/071125pressconference
>
> I happen to do work for a client over multiple days, and sometimes even
> multiple locations, which results in multiple folders. In Adobe
> Lightroom I just add all of those different folders to one album, and so
> I can have an album per client, while still keeping my principal
> structure above.

And for digikam you would just assign tags "Client1", "Client2"
to the corresponding images and using the tags virtual folder
view just get what you want.

So digikam allows to keep your principal structure,
and with tags you can get any view you want.

Best, Arnd