[KPhotoAlbum] Other workflow ideas

[josephj at main.nc.us]

I like the idea of #1. They already get automatically marked as untagged,
but I have many thousands of those.

What I do now is always load to a new folder named with the most recent
date of an image from the camera (with a separate sub-tree for each
camera), so I can find the new photos using the folder selection option. I
also have a "Done" category and flag that I have to set manually. I use
that because it's easy to forget and accidentally select Done in tag
(multiple) images instead of Continue Later.

I'm not sure about #2 because I usually tag a number of images at once
using mouse selections, so I don't usually go through them one-by-one.
(Which is partly why I have a ton of untagged images.)

If you consider this hijacking your thread, I'm willing to repost the
following separately.

Indirectly related: When I'm tagging images, I can't see what I'm doing. I
have to toggle the image previewer because it shows the tags and tokens.

I would really love a mode that displayed all assigned tags and tokens
(below) each image. I would keep it turned on when I was working on
tagging. This would be particularly useful when using tokens because
setting a token is invisible so that if I forget I set it on a particular
image and set it again, it toggles it off.

I have a love/hate relationship with the image previewer. It's very
finicky as to when it shows or hides the preview and if you switch to
doing something else with the preview displayed, it can get stuck on the
screen even when KPA is minimized and you can't get rid of it without
going back into KPA and turning it off.

Joe

> A couple of other workflow-related ideas that come to mind:
>
> 1) Automatically add a token (as an option) to all images upon
> loading.  This would make it easy to select and operate on all
> newly-imported images; the token could be manually removed when no
> longer of interest.  Why manually?  Partly it's simpler, or at least
> less destructive; partly I might have a reason for wanting to
> accumulate images from multiple import sessions.
>
> 2) A single keystroke for tag-and-next.  Currently when reviewing
> images I have to use two keystrokes for each image I select (I use A
> for my "select" token, so I need to type "A <space>".  This may sound
> nitpicky, but when you're selecting hundreds of images under time
> pressure, it adds up.  Just to give you an idea what I mean, I'm
> carrying a patch to RawTherapee to not automatically return to the
> hand tool after cropping an image, because I want that tool to remain
> in effect for the next image.  And the whole reason I use RawTherapee
> in the first place to crop images is because its crop tool works by
> simply drawing a box, rather than having to drag the crop frame in
> from the sides (which usually requires two actions).
>
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