[Digikam-users] timeline vs tags

[Gian Paolo Sanino Vattier]

Hi Luca,

My understanding is that to have a common system to all your photos
makes more sense sooner or later. Your problem relies on the digitalized
photos, so why to have to add an extra task to the digital files? no
need since all you have to do is to correct the date on the scanned files.
Are they many? not a problem as long as you know the year they were
taken and perhaps even a more accurate date. The tag tool is just one
part of the metadata and it allows you to add non standard categories.
Date/time is perhaps the most basic info in metadata and thus not the
most appropriate tool to deal with just the date field of the metadata.

Instead, my recommendation is just to use the _dedicated_ tool "Adjust
Time and Date", under the menu "Image". It provides a lot of options to
correct this info (even correcting the original/created exif data). And
you can select previously all the files that share the same date and
thus, correct them in one step. Then the timeline will work for all your
files as well as your filters etc. You can filter using the tag "year"
you added previously and then select all the results to get their date
corrected in one step. Then you can select them again to remove their
unnecessary "year" tag. And repeat for each year.

regards
gps

 

On 09/22/2015 02:21 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I ask here for a suggestion: I tend to apply to my pictures also a
> "year" ag, so that at least I know which yer photos have been taken.
> Why not using the timeline? Well, being the son of a professional
> photographer I have a quite large archive, that is composed of digital
> and re-digitalized (scanned) images. The latter do not have a good
> timeline, of course, so I choose this strategy to apply the year tag,
> and therefore to keep the collection coherent I applied also to
> digital images.
> But now that the images are almost always digitally-native, it is
> becoming a little annoying.
> Do you have a better strategy to face the problem? Or a way to
> auto-apply a yeartag based on the timeline?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
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