[digiKam-users] Dynamic albums

[Joshua]

Thank you.  I'll test out some different tagging techniques and see if I can get the desired outcome. 


Josh

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On Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at 15:34, Jay <jay at speedpost.net> wrote:

> I enter my new photos into albums by date, but I then copy certain photos into new display albums by subject as appropriate. Of course, the copied photos do not get updated if the original is changed.
> 

> Jay Rutherford
> 

> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, at 14:40, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> 

> > On samedi 5 février 2022 19:33:00 CET Joshua wrote:
> > 

> > > Is there a way to create albums without moving the photo to a new location
> > > 

> > > on the computer? I organize everything based on the date a photo is
> > > 

> > > taken, but I need to be able to create albums for organizing those pictures
> > > 

> > > without moving them in the computer. I would also like to create albums
> > > 

> > > based on star ratings that auto updates when new photos are rated.
> > 

> > Afaik, you can't create virtual albums in Digikam, an album corresponds to a
> > 

> > directory on disk.
> > 

> > But you can use keywords and searches to create selections of images: advanced
> > 

> > searches can be named and saved for later reuse. It's also easy to select all
> > 

> > images with a given star rating.
> > 

> > Whether that's sufficient for your use case(s) I cannot say.
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