[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[dmpop at tokyoma.de]

Hello,

Allow me to chime in with a slightly different take on the topic. "A well-kept house is a sign of a misspent life" are the words I live by, and I apply them to how I manage my photos. That is to say, I don't manage them at all.

And why would I, when the entire point of digiKam is that I don't have to? If I need to see all photos taken on a particular date, it only takes a couple of clicks in digiKam. Need to find photos taken in a specific location? digiKam can handle that too. Filters are also super useful and easy to use. And the Advanced Search feature is there for all the tricky problems.

Basically, the idea of having some sort of directory hierarchy is a vestige of times when finding stuff was difficult. 
In my not-so-humble opinion, tags are overrated, and tagging is such a mind-numbingly boring task. So I just pour JPEG and RAW files into digiKam and let the application do the work it's built to perform.

I do group and tags photos belonging to specific photographic projects, though. And I do it for two reasons. 1. I simply like seeing a project growing. 2. Most stock photography services I work with pick up tags automatically, so tagging photos in digiKam saves my some time and effort. Oh, and I use picks to track my submissions.

Kind regards,
Dmitri
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October 17, 2022 3:20 AM, "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
> 
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