Digikam raw files and darktable

[Remco Viëtor]

On samedi 7 janvier 2017 16:43:58 CET Juan Jose Casafranca wrote:
> That is not even close to want I want. What I want is the raw thumbnail to
> be updated...
> 
> If I have 20 similar raw files, and I decided one of them is the perfect
> one and I process it, I want its thumbnail in DK to be updated so when I
> see my 20 files in DK, I know which one is the one I was processing. Maybe
> with 1 processed file is not a huge gain, but imagine I process the 20 of
> them, one to BW, one to other thing... Now I want to open the one I
> processed in BW low contrast... how do I know which one is it? Visual
> reference is better than tags for this...
>

OK, then we clearly have a different way of working: I want to be able to see 
the original raw and the edit(s) side by side. And when I have 20 similar raw 
files, I want to see all these 20 files with their edits (that is supposing 
I'm going to edit 20 similar images... Not likely when coming back with a few 
hundred after e.g. an insect hunt). I most certainly do not want to see only 
the edited result, as that makes it impossible to judge the amount of editing 
already done, and whether it went too far compared to the original.

As for not finding one specific file among your edits, I don't know how you 
order your files within the Digikam window, but for me the edits would be 
right next to the original RAW file. Or grouped, so that the edit showed, with 
the others hidden. I can then open the group and go to the RAW that is there 
with the same base name.

Just one thing I'm curious about: how are you going to handle the case where 
you have multiple edits from the same RAW file, e.g. both a B/W and a colour 
edit (yes, this is quite possible with darktable). With your suggestion, you'd 
have only one thumbnail per RAW file, so how are you ever going to retrieve or 
remember the other edit?
(Even with one thumbnail per edit it's not as straight-forward as i would like 
it to be, as you don't want to edit the exported jpg, but continue from the DT 
history stack before export).

> 2017-01-07 16:39 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>:
(..)
> > 
> > Well, one way to get what you want is to "export" the images you developed
> > in
> > DT to the same folder as where the RAW files are stored. In that way, the
> > current versions of Digikam will take care of generating the thumbnails
> > and
> > store them, without any change in how either program works.
> > 
> > And digikam will still have one image file or video per thumbnail stored.
> > And
> > grouping on extension should still work as well.
> > 
> > Remco