[Digikam-users] Digital Asset Management (DAM) question: final formats, meta data and so on

Sun Sep 28 15:17:50 BST 2014

Hi *,

I shoot jpeg and raw. Here is my flow:

-Import and rename (yy_mm_<original filename>) with Digikam to a
directory of the year.
-Rate: No star: to be deleted, 1 star: kept for documentation, 2 stars:
good for publishing on the web, 3 stars: good for print-out, 4 stars:
the very good ones.
-Tag: -Year (e.g. 2014), -Event (e.g. 14_09_Bike_Ride_with_Julia),
potentially -Location (e.g. At home), People (e.g. Hans, Julia, ...)
-Move the raws to a different directory on another disk, directory of
the year.

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At this step I would really like to have a way to mark the raw file as a
version of the jpeg!!
The reason is I could keep track of raws much easier as they would be
connected in digikam to the jpeg.
Is that possible?
If not, may that be implemented?
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-Create two versions of each jpegs with at least two stars:
  - 1024 for picture frame
  - 1920 for web publishing and albums
 and store them in two different
 directories:
  Pictureframe/<Year>
  ScreenResolution/<Year>

-For web-publishing create a directory
  - e.g. Albums/14_09_Bike_Ride_with_Julia
 and copy jpegs with 1920 resolution into it.
-In case publish album-directory.
-Of course: Backup all the directories often!

For now I process practically only jpegs. As long as the space is enough
on the "raw-disk" I also copy them as described.
And now, for e.g. deleting all pictures with no star later, I would love
that the raw-files are connected to the jpegs in digikam. So I could
delete also the respective raws when deleting the jpegs in one shot.
The same holds true also for any processing or change in rating, tags,
and so on.

Is there any chance to get that functionality?
Thank you in advance for your answer.

Best regards
Axel

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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:36:17 +0200
> From: Jan Wolter <jan.wolter at uni-paderborn.de>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Digital Asset Management (DAM) question:
> 	final formats, meta data and so on
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> Hello,
> 
> I use the light-table to select the best shots from a particular series 
> of pictures and delete the others. Afterwards, I tag all photos and rate 
> the best shots. To the really best photos I apply some improving editing 
> operations.
> 
> With my old camera, I shot jpeg pictures only. With my new camera I shot 
> in jpeg+raw mode and I learned a lot about processing raw with digikam. 
> In some situations I got more satisfactory results from manual raw 
> processing. But this should be not the point writing about here. Instead 
> I would like to ask all of you shooting also jpeg+raw, how do you manage 
> the two file types in digikam.
> 
> Do you store jpeg and raw files in the same album or do you have 
> sub-albums for the raw files, for example?
> I have all files (of a particular "project" or holiday) in one album and 
> use a filter to switch between jpeg and raw files.
> 
> Do you tag jpeg as well as raw files? Or do you tag only the jpeg files? 
> But when you derive a new jpeg from a raw file, you have to copy the 
> tags from the original jpeg (which the camera processed) to the new 
> jpeg. (By the way: provides digikam a function to copy all tags from one 
> image to another?) Up to now, I don't have a good strategy, how to 
> handle this aspect.
> 
> It would be nice to hear some thoughts and strategies how you handle 
> jpeg+raw files.
> 
> Bests,
> Jan
> 
> On 23.09.2014 11:25, Anders Kamf wrote:
>> This is my workflow.
>>
>>  -I work mainly with private photos, e.g. from family events and so 
>> on. I handle photos from several cameras and from smart phones 
>> together. I put a timestamp (from metadata) in the filename so they 
>> are displayed in chronological order, even when viewed in a file browser.
>>  -Since I no longer have time for post processing, I use only JPEG - 
>> even for photos from my DSLR cameras.
>>  -I want the information to travel with the picture, i.e. I store all 
>> as metadata in the files.
>>  -I use rating to make a selection of pictures from each event, rather 
>> than saying "rating 5 is a really good picture".
>>
>>
>> 1. Transfer photos from cameras, together with rename and setting 
>> rating to 2, with a bash script to ~/photos/edit/YYYY/YYMMDD_EVENT, 
>> naming: YYYYMMDD-HHMM_CAMERAID_ORGFILENAME
>> 2. Manual backup of ~/photos/edit/ to external disc using rsync
>> 3. Sort pictures using the rating and rating filter - viewing 2 stars 
>> and above:
>>    a) Bad pictures gets rating 1 (I delete them all later on)
>>    b) Good pictures, but not duplicates, gets rating 3
>>    c) Change filter to 3 stars and above. If there are too many of 
>> rating 3, fine tune by set the best ones to rating 4. Continue to 
>> rating 5 if needed.
>> 4. Tag the finest selection with tag Selection-1, the next finest with 
>> Selection-2 and so on. This way the finest selection from an event is 
>> always tagged Selection-1, no matter if the finest rating has reached 
>> 3, 4 or 5 stars.
>> 5. Occasionally, do some manual editing like crop
>> 6. Apply additional tags
>> 7. Move from edit directory to ~photos/album/YYYY/, which has 
>> automated backup with rsnapshot
>>
>> I put a small JPEG-file in each directory (with the initial script) 
>> and use it to keep track of my workflow progress for that directory 
>> and for information/notes that goes for the whole directory. This is 
>> my way to store metadata for a folder.
>>
>> Regards
>> Anders
>>
>>
>> 2014-09-21 21:09 GMT+02:00 jdd <jdd at dodin.org <mailto:jdd at dodin.org>>:
>>
>>     Le 21/09/2014 21:01, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
>>
>>         To resume : my free time is very precious, and i won't to
>>         waste time
>>         with post processing on computer.
>>
>>
>>     same as you.
>>
>>     but the problem is probably most a question of number.
>>
>>     I have to shoot many images and can't afford to post edit them
>>     (apart basics like resize).
>>
>>     I know people that shoot only a handfull of images and spend many
>>     time refining them, of course in raw. It was the same with roll
>>     film...
>>
>>     no problem, simply not my use
>>
>>     jdd
>>
>>     -- 
>>     http://www.dodin.org
>>
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