[digiKam-users] Tags written by Gimp not read by digiKam

[Milind Joshi]

Thanks Steve.

I had sent a detailed response to Remco with some screenshots. This 
response is still pending moderator's approval, I guess because it had 
many attachments. Is there any other way of sharing images?

I think digiKam writes tag information to the tiff file itself. I 
haven't seen any sidecar (xmp) files being created for tiff files, 
though they get created for .pef and .arw files. In any case I have 
ticked options, "Read from sidecar files, Write to sidecar files (Write 
to XMP sidecar for read-only item only) and Sidecar files are compatible 
with commercial programs."

HTH.

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:13:44 +0100

> From: Steve Franks<stevef48 at gmail.com>
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> Have you selected Read from Sidecars on the Configure - digikam, Metadata
> Sidecars tab?
> RAW files do usually contain XMP data, it's held in associated .XMP files.
> N.B. Also tick Sidecar names are compatible with commercial programs.
> Hope this helps,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 at 20:13, Remco Viëtor<remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>  wrote:
>
>> On mardi 12 avril 2022 14:30:12 CEST Milind Joshi wrote:
>>> Can digiKam read tags written by Gimp? I have catalogs in digiKam which
>>> contain RAW (PEF, ARW, DNG) images  These files are tagged using digiKam
>>> tags. I copy selected files to a different folder for editing in Gimp.
>>> After editing these image in Gimp, I add some tags to the images in
>>> Gimp. After adding the tags, I export these files as a tiff files.
>>> However, when I add the files to the digiKam catalog, these tags are
>>> missing. However, these tags can be seen in Exifview. I also tried the
>>> option to "read tags from file option" in digiKam. Still these tags are
>>> ignored. Is there an option that I need to turn on?
>>>
>>> mj
>> Which metadata tags are added by Gimp? Not the keywords/tags as you write
>> them, but the metadata tag names as shown by Exifview (e.g. with EXIV2 ,I
>> see
>> Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject storing my keywords, but so do
>> Xmp.MicrosoftPhoto.LastKeywordXMP and Xmp.mediapro.CatalogSets;
>> there are four tags that contain the description I added...)
>>
>> There are a lot of semi-standard tag names and name spaces used to store
>> keywords, and by default Digikam only reads some of them.
>>
>> Remco
>>
>>
>>
>>
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