[digiKam-users] Newbie digikam user has questions
Andrew Goodbody
ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk
Mon Feb 25 19:42:01 GMT 2019
OK, here is, I think, where you need to understand how digikam works.
digikam gives you a view onto the underlying file system. Every album is
a directory in the collection. Every directory under the location you
chose for your collection will show up as an album in digikam. Moving an
album in digikam will move that directory in the file system. Albums are
directories. Directories are albums. Directories under the collection
are visible in digikam. Directories outside of the collection are not
visible.
If you want to add photos to digikam without making a copy and they
exist outside of the collection directory, then you can add another
collection. Or you can move those files to be in the collection.
Importing images will make a copy of them. Importing is mainly used to
copy files off removable storage such as your camera's flash card. I
never use digikam myself to do this, but many folk do. I think that the
metadata is not interpreted at this stage which is why your vertical
photos are not rotated. So the new window is, I think, asking you which
photos to copy into your collection.
Does that help you at all?
Andrew
On 25/02/2019 18:38, Jim Kahnweiler wrote:
> Thanks, Giles. I'm not enough of a codec person to understand your
> reply. Do you mean that certain PSD files are not supported by digiKam?
>
> What about importing images from my Alaska folder but only see them
> displayed in a new window, instead of the database. And, verticles not
> rotated?
>
> Please let me know what to do.
>
> Thanks, again.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:11 PM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
> <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The PSD file without thumbnail is problably the source of the problem.
>
> There are a PSD thumbnailer in KF5 libraries that we use, but my
> tests under Linux relevant plenty of time latency when i try to
> render preview from PSD taken from the Web. Particularly, the points
> below are importants :
>
> - It's a dynamic plugins for QImage loader, which are problematic
> under MacOS. I think that i fixed the problem with next 6.1.0, but i
> need to test more..
> - The PSD codec code is given to read file only. This
> implementation, not maintained by digiKam team exists by reverse
> engineering. PSD is a closed format (thanks adobe to support open
> standard), and of course the codec will not support well all
> possible version of PSD.
> - The PSD codec source code is not very well maintained as i can see
> in code history.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le lun. 25 févr. 2019 à 18:49, Jim Kahnweiler <jim at jimkphoto.com
> <mailto:jim at jimkphoto.com>> a écrit :
>
> Here's my reply. Thanks.
>
> The system blocked it because I had screengrabs attached. Here's
> the link to see what problem I'm having. Are there any tutorial
> files or videos?
>
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iejLB41WIct5YTvqtGjFx6xlRJOw1jBB?usp=sharing
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 3:17 PM Jim Kahnweiler
> <jim at jimkphoto.com <mailto:jim at jimkphoto.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Andrew for the reply. I removed DK and reinstalled
> it. It doesn't take long, as I have nothing in it yet.
> During install is checked a preference that points DK to my
> Photos folder. The folder structure is displayed in the
> screenshot I'm attaching.
>
> I wanted to work on the "Alaska" folder and loaded images
> using Menu-->Import-->Add Images. When I select it the first
> time after launch, the thumbnails loaded in the main window.
> DK crashed and when I opened it again, the images were gone.
> I went to reimport them and they load as seen here. Note the
> unrotated verticles and psd file that does not display; the
> dng file does. When the thumbnail view window is selected
> the menu bar changes.
>
> I found the setting to change the UI theme.
>
> Icons for the folders in the main window albums list seem to
> be displayed properly for now.
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 1:36 PM Andrew Goodbody
> <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk <mailto:ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> On 24/02/2019 16:47, Jim Kahnweiler wrote:
> > Hi, I just download and installed digikam on my Mac,
> running Mojave. As
> > a user using MediaPro for many years I have been
> forced to search for a
> > replacement because PhaseOne has abandoned the
> software. DK is the most
> > likely replacement. However, my initial experience
> has been frustrating.
> >
> > I have several questions for which I can't find
> answers. Can someone
> > help me, please or provide a link to a tutorial that
> will explain how to
> > do what I want to do.
> > 1) My first album copied the images to the database
> location. Is there a
> > way to create an album without moving files?
>
> To add photos that already exist on your HDD simply
> create a collection
> and make it point to the directory containing your
> photos. It will not
> copy those photos anywhere.
>
> > 2) The second album I created opened in a new window
> and was not saved.
> > No files were moved. The verticle images were not
> displayed in a rotated
> > view. And, I added the MIME preferences to recognize
> tif, psd and
> > dng format, but the application did not respond, so
> thumbnails were not
> > displayed.
>
> I have no idea what you did here. You will need to
> explain exactly what
> menu options you chose etc etc
> If you have photos that are not displayed in the correct
> orientation
> then you may need to file a bug and provide the
> developers with a sample
> image. Auto-rotating images according to the embedded
> EXIF data is
> certainly supported and does work, at least most of the
> time.
>
> > 3) Screenshots on the DK website show a dark
> background, but I couldn't
> > find a way to change from the default white background.
> > 4) When I first launched DK, the icons in the sidebar
> were solid, now
> > they appear greyed-out.
> >
> > I see that v.6 is a .0 version, with new releases
> scheduled for the near
> > future. Would I find a more stable release if I
> downgrade to v.5.8?
>
> I strongly suspect the issue is more to do with how you
> are using
> digikam, rather than any stability issues. This may be
> because it uses
> unfamiliar concepts that are not sufficiently intuitive
> especially when
> coming from other photo management applications.
>
> > I'm sure as I use the program more, I'll have more
> questions.
> >
> > I appreciate your help.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Jim
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> --
> Jim
>
> Jim Kahnweiler, Photographer
> 5 Alewives Road
> Norwalk CT 06850 USA
>
> 203-979-1507
> http://www.jimkphoto.com <http://www.jimkphotographics.com>
> jim at jimkphoto.com <mailto:jim at jimkphoto.com>
>
> It's not the camera; it's the photographer.
> --Anonymous
>
> Use the right tool for the job.
> --Folk Lore
>
>
>
> --
> Jim
>
> Jim Kahnweiler, Photographer
> 5 Alewives Road
> Norwalk CT 06850 USA
>
> 203-979-1507
> http://www.jimkphoto.com <http://www.jimkphotographics.com>
> jim at jimkphoto.com <mailto:jim at jimkphoto.com>
>
> It's not the camera; it's the photographer.
> --Anonymous
>
> Use the right tool for the job.
> --Folk Lore
>
>
>
> --
> Jim
>
> Jim Kahnweiler, Photographer
> 5 Alewives Road
> Norwalk CT 06850 USA
>
> 203-979-1507
> http://www.jimkphoto.com <http://www.jimkphotographics.com>
> jim at jimkphoto.com <mailto:jim at jimkphoto.com>
>
> It's not the camera; it's the photographer.
> --Anonymous
>
> Use the right tool for the job.
> --Folk Lore
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