[Digikam-users] Metadata Storage in digikam

[Thomas]

Hello Digikam experts,

thank you for your great Photo Management Software, I'm looking forward to 
using it in the future. (Until now, I used Picasa on Debian stable because it 
was the only application able to read my ARW files out of the box.)

I have a few questions concerning the "Embedded Image information Management"-
Section of digikam's settings-dialogue. I looked at the documentation, but it 
seems outdated here (with pictures showing KDE3).

So here's the problem: With Picasa and Adobe Bridge, I added several captions 
to my pictures and would very much like to keep them. As far as I know these 
programs store them in IPTC tags. If I select "Save image tags as keyword 
tags" now and import my tagged pictures, will all of Picasa's captions really 
be lost? This is how I understood the warning in the documentation but it's 
hard to believe.

Some other questions also occured: Which of the options in the Dialogue 
"Allgemeine Metadaten-Aktionen" (General Metadata Information) concern IPTC-
Data and how? What does "Bildstichwörter in Schlüsselwörtern speichern" (Save 
picture keywords in keywords) mean exactly, which Keywords are to be stored to 
which other keywords? Does the experimental feature "Metadaten in Rohdateien 
speichern" (Save metadata in raw files) refer to DNG-negatives (only)? 

Sorry to bother you with these questions. If you could point me to an updated 
help page, I'd be very glad, too.

Thanks in advance, and keep on the good work!
Thomas