[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Tóth Csaba]

Hi!
I'm using Digicam for 5 years. I have 30K+ pictures from difference 
sources, with different subjects:
- scanned photos from analog film trips (negative, positive, created 
different cameras)
- digital photos from digital cameras
- photos from phone
- photos of family
I try to keep the original picture names as unique name, and for fast 
finding. for everything else I always used Exif, database, and now 
Digikam (I know its a database in the deep)
Because hard to organize, I have two root directory:
- family
- pictures take by me
In the family directory just three sub-dir: take by us by camera,  take 
by us with phone, take by other.
In the directories many sub directories, every contains pictures with 
sum size 4.5G (old plan to archive it onto DVD's but never happened, the 
structure still valid)
Taken by me photos:
Subdir for negativ, positiv (films), and digital, each directory has 
subdirectories by cameras. For roll films 10 roll per directory, in 
digital 1000 images per directory. (I dont used phone to take photo for
This is the "physical" organization.
For the "logical" I use every possibility in the Digikam: star system, 
coloring, heavy tagging.

Hope it helps!

Csaba

On 2022-10-17 03:20, Tyler Smith 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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