Coming from Picasa Desktop - help

[Eduard Zalar]

Thank you very much for this excellent discussion!

I am also coming from Picasa Desktop and I also miss this "Virtual Album"
feature.  It was so easy to pick up the pictures for desired use cases like:
* Sending some (but not all) photos to the family.
* Select photos for printing
* Select photos for a collage
* for uploading to an online album
etc.
Additionally, my standard tree structure is not the same as the name of a
virtual album.
I sorted my pictures in a timely manner using \year\year-month-day ID
But a virtual album was able to link photos from different folders and had
a completely different name like: "holiday in austria"

So what could be done now to file a feature request for digiKam and find
other supporters?


bjnovick <bjnovick at msn.com> schrieb am So., 16. Okt. 2016 um 07:18 Uhr:

> First, thanks for everyone's input!  I imagine with the end of life of
> Picasa
> there are many others like me who are looking for solution.  I checked out
> almost all the other options, but none seem to be as close as Digikam is.
>
> Let me give you all a little more details on the workflow for our family.
> I
> take the photos, download them to our archive, and organize them into a
> structure on disk.  Currently we have about 75000+ photos.  I tag them with
> key information such as who we visited, where we visited, event that I took
> them at (i.e. dance recital, etc..), key family moment, etc...  At that
> point the images can be searched and are organized.  Great, I can do the
> same in Digikam and in some cases even more efficiently!
>
> However, that is not the end of the story.  Sometime later, my wife wants
> to
> create what is equivalent to a photo album or scrap book that you might
> find
> on your coffee table.  This gets shared with others either through
> slideshows/email/web or sent off to be printed and sent to family members.
> She has no interest in how the photos are stored on disk.  She wants the
> "virtual" album to exist and be persistent so a year or two or 20 from now,
> when she wants, she can look back and see what photo's were used.  She is
> going to pick from the pool of photos and is not trying to organize the
> photos.  Picasa has 2 things in the view that makes this easy: 1) a
> Folder/Tree section which is equivalent to Digikam's Albums.  It can be
> traversed just like the album view in Digikam  2) a "Picasa Album" section
> which shows a virtual collection of photos.  It is these virtual
> collections
> that are more akin to the coffee table photo album.
>
> In picasa these are the total steps she needs to take:
>
> 1) Click create album and give it a name
> 2) She searches through the pictures I have taken by either traversing the
> tree structure or searching tags.  When she finds a photo that she wants
> she
> puts it in a tray by hitting a short cut combination (I don't remember the
> key combo).
> 3) When she is done collecting the ones she wants she right clicks and
> selects something akin to "send to album"
>
> Thats it.  She is done.  No great expertise required.  Later, she can sort
> the albums by date or when you do a search it includes album names.
>
> In digikam a virtual album through the predefined searches seem like it
> might partly fit the bill, but it is a bit more complicated and
> conceptually
> different:
>
> 1) Create tag "ALBUM - BLAH BLAH"
> 2) Find photos and add ALBUM BLAH BLAH tag.  When you have a lot of tags
> this becomes harder to do as the tag list gets quite large.  However, when
> I
> showed tags to my wife it immediately became confusing as a photo can gets
> multiple tags and then all show up at once and when choosing a tag the tag
> list is rather long as we have lots of tags.  This can be partly worked
> around by using subtags but still not the prettiest view.
> 3) Create an advanced search that looks for ALBUM BLAH BLAH
> 4) Save search as virtual album
>
> Why not just select photos and click "Add to virtual album"? Also, you
> might
> consider calling it something else instead of an Album since in Digikam
> Album already has a specific purpose.  Maybe "ScrapBooks" as this is more
> equivalent to scrap booking.
>
>
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