Inconsistent watermark sizes depending on pictures ratio

Sun Jan 22 18:02:49 GMT 2017

The big problem is this is a full change of behaviour.
For years, I have adopted a workflow that worked with 'past' Digikam, and
now it won't work anymore!

All my pictures are grouped 'under' the TIFF format, that qualifies as the
'mother' picture: the original raw, the JPEGs that have been created from
the TIFF (itself created in Darktable) and possibly other TIFF versions in
case I made several different developments.
Each time I needed to produce a JPEG, usually for online publication, a new
photobook, or storing on mobile devices, I only had to select the TIFFs,
and run whatever workflow I wanted to use in the BQM.

Selecting whole groups might be fine for managing metadata, but I can't see
any relevancy when it comes to resizing, converting to JPEG(!),
watermarking, exporting and such.

Please provide some kind of option, especially when using the batch queue
manager, so we can have choice between selecting only the top picture, or
the whole group.

Thanks in advance,
Marie-Noëlle

2017-01-22 18:28 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:

> I can't say anything about the watermarking, but the grouping behaviour
> that you describe is actually a feature. When groups are collapsed all
> operations are applied to all group members. If you want to apply
> operations (e.g. add to queue) to only specific images of a group, you need
> to expand groups and explicitly set those groups.
> If this is a really big problem in your workflow, please describe why and
> how your workflow works. I don't have time right now, but I will look into
> it.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On 22/01/17 15:20, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>
> Just tested with AppImage, as advised by Gilles. But the result is not
> good : see here two pictures that have been treated by the same queue, with
> a 20% watermark in the left-down corner and both margins at 2%; in the
> portrait picture, the watermark seems to be twice as big as in the
> landscape one, instead of being - more or less - the same size.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx05ZB5ljrd0cWw2WWNIelQzajg/
> view?usp=sharing
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx05ZB5ljrd0VVpLTTBkc251Slk/
> view?usp=sharing
>
> And the pictures selection (to put pictures in the queue) works
> differently from the 'installed' Digikam: instead of selecting the head
> group picture only, it appears to select all the pictures belonging to the
> group. That's rather annoying.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>
> 2017-01-21 15:43 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Marie Noelle,
>>
>> No need to wait offcial linux distro packaging. I just update digiKam
>> 5.5.0 pre version of AppImage bundle here :
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM
>>
>> You can test last patch from Ahmed now as well. AppImage is a stand alone
>> executable, which do not install anything on your system and do not require
>> admin right. It can be used in parallel with your official digiKam.
>>
>> Just download the file, make it as executable, and start it. It will use
>> your current digiKam settings from your home directory.
>>
>> Very simple and very powerfull... AppImage will run on all Linux. It have
>> been compiled under Centos 6, but OpenSuse, Debian, etc are supported.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>> 2017-01-21 15:37 GMT+01:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <mnaugendre at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Ahmed,
>>>
>>> I just checked your pictures, and the size issue seems to be fixed with
>>> your modification.
>>> As for the watermark place, I had no such issue ... perhaps because I
>>> put the watermark in the left-down corner and you calculate its position
>>> from here?
>>>
>>> Anyway, things are fine for me, and I'll wait for the fix in next
>>> Digikam version.
>>>
>>> Thanks for having solved this so quickly. :-)
>>> Marie-Noëlle
>>>
>>> 2017-01-19 13:45 GMT+01:00 Ahmed FathI <ahmed.fathi.abdelmageed at gmail
>>> .com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi , All
>>>>
>>>> Marie , I made some code modifications and produced this following
>>>> results ,
>>>> This is  what you wanted I think , am I right ?
>>>>
>>>> Here I attach  6 photos :
>>>>
>>>> Two original photos :  one portrait and one landscape
>>>> Two photos after running the batchQueueManager on both of them before
>>>> the
>>>> modification , clearly showing the problem
>>>> Two photos after running the batchQueueManager on both of them after the
>>>> modification , giving a much better results
>>>>
>>>> LandScapePortraitFix.zip
>>>> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/file/n4693115/LandScap
>>>> ePortraitFix.zip>
>>>>
>>>> Is that it ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ahmed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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