[Digikam-users] how do you select images for slide show? A SOLUTION

[Eildert Groeneveld]

Dear All
along with the good suggestion in particular from Remco I have managed
to setup a system that allows efficient definition and storage of
"playlists" for slide shows for me. It is actually what Remco suggested:
define hierarchical tags (see below). What I was not aware of is that
the JPGs are not at all touched with the creation of new tags: instead
they are apparently only stored in the database. Which is just fine as I
do not want the upstream defined tags to get messed up. Perfect!

One little issue remains: for a slideshow I need to export the slide
selection  which normally includes a resize. Ideally, digikam would just
allow an export with the provision of being able to resize.
Closest to this is the EXPORT TO REMOTE COMPUTER und EXPORTs. here at
least you can specify any directory. But then I would need to used
gwenview or something else to resize.

Any idea how that can be handled efficiently? This should be job for the
batch queue manager, but I dont really know how.

Thanks again

Tred


On Mi, 2013-05-08 at 18:40 +0200, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 May 2013 15:25:49 Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Onsdag den 8. maj 2013 22:17:57, HaJo Schatz wrote:
> > > Hmm, you could, eg, create a tag "Slideshow Vietnam". Tag the files you
> > > want. Later turn on a filter to show only these tagged files, select 
> them
> > > all, copy to memory stick.
> > > > Dear All
> > 
> > In addition to tags, digikam also have colored labels, flags and ratings 
> to 
> > help you select :) 
> > 
> 
> Well, I find those more useful earlier on in the process, to indicate 
> preferences and/or restrictions, if only because there are so few of them.
> 
> Personally, I find a hierarchy of tags the easiest to use, in this case:
> /slideshow and then subtags, e.g. /slideshow/Vietnam, 
> /slideshow/Vietnam/short. A /~/~/long tag would be superfluous if your 
> short slideshow is a selection from the long one.
> 
> As for the multiple copies problem:
> I convert my RAW files to PNG (at maximum size) for further editing, but 
> any final file will be a JPG, scaled to planned use, to minimise the space 
> occupied. And for those I don't mind having several copies lying around.
> 
> And yes, I do the conversion from PNG to JPG with the batch queue:
> scale to final size, a bit of sharpening (amount depending on output 
> medium), add metadata with copyright and contact info, and convert to jpeg.
> 
> Then, how are you going to present your slide show:
> - a standalone presentation, with automatic progression, or
> - manual progression while you present the images?
> 
> For a stand-alone presentation, I usually generate a video file, with all 
> transitions baked in.
> 
> Remco
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