[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization
Randy Wolf
randy.wolf at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 22:07:24 BST 2022
Digikam is not my first photo organization app, but hopefully the last...
But just in case, I've kept my old school organization structure on disk.
First, I've got an incoming folder on my desktop where I move everything
off my camera and phone. I face tag, edit, etc. in incoming, then move out
to long term storage.
Long term storage is broken into "mine" and "others" at top level. Others
being photos saved from other people, scans of old photos I didn't shoot,
etc
Beneath both of those I have folders for years.
Within each year, I have flat folders named as
yyyy-mm-dd-description(sortable)
I found having subdirs for mm and dd was too much. Maybe if I took more
photos I'd find it useful.
Oh and I use like 2022-10-xx-misc as catch all for random cellphone pics
in that month which don't arise from a shoot or event. Otherwise
description is the event name.
I've found this to be a good workflow. All photos go into digikam via the
incoming folder and then I move the photos from within the app... never via
the file system. Gives me one place to dump everything after vacation, for
example... And then over coffee on Saturday morning I'll go in and process
the photos.
So like:
Desktop
Incoming
Pictures
Mine
2022
2022-10-17-BirthdayParty
2022-10-xx-Misc
Etc
Others
2022
Etc.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 7:00 AM <digikam-users-request at kde.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: Very long processing to process 200 photos (Maik Qualmann)
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> 3. Re: high-level photo organization (Sheridan Price)
> 4. Re: high-level photo organization (Antti Ahonen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:49:21 +0200
> From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Very long processing to process 200
> photos
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> Longer than 48 hours for reading the metadata of only 200 images - hard to
> believe.
> A test here with SQLite database (on HDD not SSD) and 500 images measured
> 15
> seconds.
> On which platform are you using digiKam, what type of database are you
> using,
> where is the collection with the 200 images located, on a network drive?
>
> Maik
>
> Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2022, 15:23:25 CEST schrieb
> herve.lebrouster at orange.fr:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have 3 collections that contain 90,000 photos and a collection that I
> have
> > just added with 200 photos, I was told that I had to use the maintenance
> > function on the file concerned. What I do
> >
> > I launch the "DiGIKAm Maintenance" with the options
> >
> > - Albums: on 5 albums of the collection containing 200 images
> >
> > - Work on all cores (if possible)
> >
> > - Synchronize metadata and database: From image metadata to database
> >
> > It's been running for 48 hours and I'm still at 17%
> >
> > With version 7.7 it was long but it becomes endless to process the data
> of
> > 200 photos.
> >
> > Isn't there a faster method because it's really a pain, it looks like
> it's
> > working on all the photos
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> >
> > Cordially
> >
> > Herve Le Brouster
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:20:02 -0400
> From: "Tyler Smith" <tyler at plantarum.ca>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] high-level photo organization
> Message-ID: <8471a1ef-b1b0-496b-9abb-21b5d88e87bb at app.fastmail.com>
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> Hi,
>
> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the
> many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder
> how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.
>
> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,
> with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,
>
> 2022
> 10
> 09
> 10
> 31-halloween
>
> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without
> sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on file,
> and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd
> like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> --
> plantarum.ca
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:40:31 -0400
> From: Sheridan Price <sheridanmp at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] high-level photo organization
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> Because of the built in date functions I've found it more useful to store
> photos under descriptive folders as in:
> year then a sub folder having a name that is some description for that
> shoot. Hence I might have 2022/Experimental Farm/May. 2022/Experimental
> Farm/July.
>
> And why you might ask? Well I have found that mentally if I am looking for
> a particular photo or set of photos I can usually remember the year and
> event and hence can find it quickly in digikam by going directly to the
> folder - no search necessary. If I only know part of the info then I can do
> proper searches via the search tools and when displayed the folder path
> often helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct folder
> without having to actually consider each individual folder.
>
> This does not preclude using useful tags on each photo. That allows for
> real detailed and extensive searches. This just makes some quick searches
> quicker.
>
> Sher
>
> On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022, 9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <tyler at plantarum.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the
> > many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I
> wonder
> > how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.
> >
> > Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,
> > with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,
> >
> > 2022
> > 10
> > 09
> > 10
> > 31-halloween
> >
> > Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without
> > sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on
> file,
> > and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd
> > like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tyler
> >
> > --
> > plantarum.ca
> >
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> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:52:28 +0300
> From: Antti Ahonen <aahonen at gmail.com>
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> Personally I always arrange everything in year/month/day hierarchy. Perhaps
> not mandatory regarding Digikam use, but makes life easier with backups and
> stuff when the archive gets big.
>
> All information related to shoot, project, etc is added as metadata in
> files and sidecar files.
>
> That is how I try to manage with my files.
>
> -Antti
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:41 AM Sheridan Price <sheridanmp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Because of the built in date functions I've found it more useful to store
> > photos under descriptive folders as in:
> > year then a sub folder having a name that is some description for that
> > shoot. Hence I might have 2022/Experimental Farm/May. 2022/Experimental
> > Farm/July.
> >
> > And why you might ask? Well I have found that mentally if I am looking
> for
> > a particular photo or set of photos I can usually remember the year and
> > event and hence can find it quickly in digikam by going directly to the
> > folder - no search necessary. If I only know part of the info then I can
> do
> > proper searches via the search tools and when displayed the folder path
> > often helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct folder
> > without having to actually consider each individual folder.
> >
> > This does not preclude using useful tags on each photo. That allows for
> > real detailed and extensive searches. This just makes some quick searches
> > quicker.
> >
> > Sher
> >
> > On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022, 9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <tyler at plantarum.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and
> the
> >> many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I
> wonder
> >> how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.
> >>
> >> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,
> >> with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,
> >>
> >> 2022
> >> 10
> >> 09
> >> 10
> >> 31-halloween
> >>
> >> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without
> >> sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on
> file,
> >> and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd
> >> like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tyler
> >>
> >> --
> >> plantarum.ca
> >>
> >
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