[Digikam-users] Digital Asset Management (DAM) question: final formats, meta data and so on
Simon Cropper
simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com
Mon Sep 29 00:15:47 BST 2014
Axel,
You can group images. Select both, right-mouse-click and select group.
Although both images stay in their respective directories, DK shows them
grouped under the image you first selected.
Cheers Simon
On 29/09/14 00:17, Axel Klein wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> 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?
> ----
>
> -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
>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <54247CC1.7020008 at uni-paderborn.de>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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