[Digikam-users] Re: Rating based on quality or content? Ideas, comments?

[Gilles Caulier]

In digiKam 2.0.0, i introduce Color Label Tags. With this, you can use
it in your workflow to indentify quickly good and bad items.

Look there for details :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152424

Gilles Caulier

2011/2/11 Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>:
> on Friday 11 February 2011, Johnny wrote:
>> While rating pictures I always struggle to be consistent, mainly because
>> I am struggling whether to rate the picture for it's quality or it's
>> content.
>>
>> In particular considering that the quantity of digital images have
>> increased drastically the last few years, making the differentiation of
>> quality and content less acute - there is normally a quite good quality
>> picture that also represents the situation or motive it is intended to
>> capture. However, earlier years albums have fewer pictures, of sometimes
>> quite poor quality to be frank, but the rarer the picture and content,
>> the more precious in a way, so I'd like to rate "content" as high, while
>> rating "quality" as poor.
>>
>> Does anyone else recognize this, and if so, how do you deal with it?
>>
>> Now, I could probably do a separate tag structure for this, but it would
>> be ideal to have two separate star-ratings, and e.g. pass through the
>> collection, using C-[1-5] for quality rating and (maybe) M-[1-5] for
>> content rating.
>>
>> I am looking forward to hear fellow Digikam users opinions and ideas!
>>
>
> I try and rate on content, and delete if quality is insufficient. So for me,
> there would no need to go back every so often to adjust the 'quality' tags
> (which is what your system would require). Also, a borderline quality that is
> kept, has value, so wouldn't be deleted anyway, why complicate things with two
> ratings (I'm not a professional, so no problems related to selling pictures)?
>
> Remco
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