[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Tyler Smith]

Thanks everyone for contributing your workflows! This was very interesting to read through, and will give me some ideas to explore with my own images.

Best,

Tyler

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, at 2:34 PM, Tóth Csaba wrote:
> 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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