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From: Ben Bacarisse on 4 May 2008 17:05 John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> writes: > On Sun, 04 May 2008 19:46:23 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > >> If you're looking for something more than just a viewer - a photo >> organiser etc, i'd have a look at f-spot too. > > I'm doing that right now. I've just been trying digikam. Its tagging > business is OK except I've been organising my pictures by hard-linking > copies into other directories (e.g. one for stuff I want the screen saver > slideshow to display). I don't like that digicam keeps my tagging data in > its own database and I'd rather something that embeds tags in the > files themselves, so that if I tag one instance of a file the tags are > there in every other instance. f-spot seems to do this but the downside is > it's trying to copy N gbytes of existing photos into its 'photos' > directory to play with. You can tell it to "import" but leave the files in place (it's a check box in import dialog). -- Ben.
From: Will Kemp on 5 May 2008 02:49 On Sun, 04 May 2008 20:14:37 +0000, John Stumbles wrote: > On Sun, 04 May 2008 19:46:23 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > >> If you're looking for something more than just a viewer - a photo >> organiser etc, i'd have a look at f-spot too. > > I'm doing that right now. I've just been trying digikam. Its tagging > business is OK except I've been organising my pictures by hard-linking > copies into other directories (e.g. one for stuff I want the screen > saver slideshow to display). I don't like that digicam keeps my tagging > data in its own database and I'd rather something that embeds tags in > the files themselves, so that if I tag one instance of a file the tags > are there in every other instance. f-spot seems to do this but the > downside is it's trying to copy N gbytes of existing photos into its > 'photos' directory to play with. > > Suppose I can't have it both ways: it's not a trivial problem. With f-spot, you *can* have it both ways. You can either import images directly from the camera into f-spot, or you can transfer them from the camera to any directory and then import them into f-spot from there, leaving the images in the original directory as well. I started off doing that, but now i just leave f-spot to manage the files. It's a lot easier. Before i started using f-spot, i used to use gthumb to manage the files and gimp to edit them. Now i just use f-spot. Occasionally i'll need to open a photo in gimp for some reason - which i can do from f-spot very easily (with the choice of either altering the current version or creating a new version of the file). Tagging's good. Image editing is good. The only problem i've got with f- spot is that you can only level the image by 1 degree steps. I believe they're going to improve this in a future version though (possibly even the latest version, i dunno - due to library incompatibilities, i can't get it to build for Fedora 8). -- http://SnapAndScribble.com/will
From: chris on 5 May 2008 05:06 John Stumbles wrote: > On Sun, 04 May 2008 19:46:23 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > >> If you're looking for something more than just a viewer - a photo >> organiser etc, i'd have a look at f-spot too. > > I'm doing that right now. I've just been trying digikam. Its tagging > business is OK except I've been organising my pictures by hard-linking > copies into other directories (e.g. one for stuff I want the screen saver > slideshow to display). I don't like that digicam keeps my tagging data in > its own database and I'd rather something that embeds tags in the > files themselves, so that if I tag one instance of a file the tags are > there in every other instance. *I think* the latest versions of digkam have the option to tag the files themselves. I haven't got around to it myself yet as I've got a lot of tagged files in the old format. It shouldn't be too difficult to write script to extract the data from the sqlite database, though.
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