[digiKam-users] Import of face tags of Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer into Digikam

[Henrik Hemrin]

Hi,

I am preparing myself for same activity. I use Photoshop Elements (PSE) 14 on macOS as catalog, and plan to move catalog to digiKam; either first within macOS or to Linux Mint. 

My reading as well as trials so far: PSE do not export, nor read, face tags. Ie PSE only handle face tags within its own database. However Adobe Lightroom can read the PSE data base. And Adobe Lightroom can export phase tags. I did those trials half a year ago with a friend who use Lightroom daily. I have forgotten all details in our trials, I will write down my knowledge later, the trials and migration came to a pause. I plan to do some cleanup of my PSE catalog before I migrate. Anyway, I plan to do as follows, which I am quite confident based on trials will work: 

1. Make the PSE catalog ready
2. Install Adobe Lightroom (classic) on same machine. During installation (I think LR will find the PSE catalog automatically during installation, else do it after installation) say yes to import the PSE catalog to LR catalog. 
3. Export LR meta data to file/sidecar (details not clear from top of my mind)
4. Now should digiKam be able to read your face tags originally coming from PSE! 

Lightroom classic has a free trial of a week or two, so if you are quick, it will not cost anything. Else, you can pay for a month or so. From top of my mind, I’m doubtful if you can write face tags to raw files, but to sidecars. Maybe I can find it in my notes from our trials. We did multiple trials with import, export between all three so my memory is lost now if I do not dig into my notes, I can try to write done a preliminar summary later next few days. As I haven’t LR myself yet, I cannot be more precise of the actions in LR. But I am very positive that if you go via LR, you will manage. Sorry I’ve not done my migration yet…

Best regards
Henrik Hemrin

> 30 mars 2022 kl. 10:16 skrev Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you have a few samples of images tagged with Adobe tools, we can
> check the metadata from files to see if interoperability information
> are present.
> 
> Please use Internet cloud share service.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le mer. 30 mars 2022 à 04:31, Andreas A <and.alef at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I think over changing from Windows to Linux. The only application that seems to have no linux-alternative seems to be Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer, especially face recognition, because I tagged about 300 faces. I wrote all the Metadata within Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer into the files (this is an option).
>> 
>> Is there a possibility to import all the facetags into Digikam?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Andreas A