Coming from Picasa Desktop - help

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I use tags (and colors and flags) for all these purposes:

Tags for location (Austria, Vienna), author (me), event (holiday), day
or night time, kind (portrait, selfie, landscape, ...), season, ...
Tags for publishing on the web and other audience.
Colors for the best photos I want to show in a slide show, but I could
use tags, too.
Flags for images to be sorted.

How is that different from the virtual albums you are looking for?
The only thing I see, that is difficult: Separating between tags that
are stored in the file and tags that are only present in the database.


I always found it to be a major strength of DigiKam that there is one
major sorting criterion: the file location on disk. It's good to have
the database and different ways to look at me photos and sort them. But
I always know where they are stored. And if the database would crash or
I would abandon DigiKam, the pictures are still sorted and the tags are
still stored inside the pictures. Thats a kind of interoperatability and
robustness that I like. For all secondary criteria, I can built up
simple or complex hierarchies of tags.

Best,
Joram


Am 16.10.2016 um 13:56 schrieb 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?
>