Digikam workflow questions

[David Rolph]

Hi Everybody,

Well after stumbling around in the wilderness for a while, I discovered Digikam today and I am incredibly excited.  It seems to be exactly what I am looking for in a photo management tool.

I these workflow related questions are not too end userish for what seems to be quite a technical board.

1.) I shoot in JPG and RAW.  I want to be able to import my photos into DigiKam (no problem) and then review them (no problem) and then delete the ones that I don't like (no problem).  But I would like to have the raw file (in my case a NEF) deleted together with the jpg file.  As it is now I must separately seek out the NEF with the same name to delete it.  I would think this is a pretty standard workflow.  Is there a way to automate this or work differently to how I do?

2.) I use Smugmug to host my photos.  They have a number of methods to upload photos.  I quite understand that its a bit too early to expect an interface to the smugmug API at this time.  But Smugmug does support a drag and drop interface.  If I tag my photos destined for smugmug then I can easily show them all on the one page and select them all.  I can even drag them around in the Digikam interface, but they are not dragable to the Smugmug java upload interface within their upload page.  The best way I can find to do it is to hunt them down in Konqueror and drag them over one at a time which seems like a shame considering how close I am.

Thanks for making this great tool.  Its simply amazing :-)

cheers,
david

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Dnia Wednesday 30 of April 2008, David Rolph napisał:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> Well after stumbling around in the wilderness for a while, I discovered
> Digikam today and I am incredibly excited.  It seems to be exactly what
> I am looking for in a photo management tool.
>
> I these workflow related questions are not too end userish for what
> seems to be quite a technical board.
>
> 1.) I shoot in JPG and RAW.  I want to be able to import my photos into
> DigiKam (no problem) and then review them (no problem) and then delete
> the ones that I don't like (no problem).  But I would like to have the
> raw file (in my case a NEF) deleted together with the jpg file.  As it
> is now I must separately seek out the NEF with the same name to delete
> it.  I would think this is a pretty standard workflow.  Is there a way
> to automate this or work differently to how I do?

This is on todo-list. Please visit

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126149

Vote and add your comments.

> 2.) I use Smugmug to host my photos.  They have a number of methods to
> upload photos.  I quite understand that its a bit too early to expect an
> interface to the smugmug API at this time.  But Smugmug does support a
> drag and drop interface.  If I tag my photos destined for smugmug then I
> can easily show them all on the one page and select them all.  I can
> even drag them around in the Digikam interface, but they are not
> dragable to the Smugmug java upload interface within their upload page.
> The best way I can find to do it is to hunt them down in Konqueror and
> drag them over one at a time which seems like a shame considering how
> close I am.

For me also drag'n'drop from Konq doesn't work.

m.

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[Lawrence Plug]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:26:21PM +0200, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> Dnia Wednesday 30 of April 2008, David Rolph napisał:
>
> > 2.) I use Smugmug to host my photos.  They have a number of methods to
> > upload photos.  I quite understand that its a bit too early to expect an
> > interface to the smugmug API at this time.  But Smugmug does support a
> > drag and drop interface.  If I tag my photos destined for smugmug then I
> > can easily show them all on the one page and select them all.  I can
> > even drag them around in the Digikam interface, but they are not
> > dragable to the Smugmug java upload interface within their upload page.
> > The best way I can find to do it is to hunt them down in Konqueror and
> > drag them over one at a time which seems like a shame considering how
> > close I am.
>
> For me also drag'n'drop from Konq doesn't work.

I drag n' drop from Konqueror but agree that it is clunky.

Komododrop is a good example of a 3rd party app which uploads to
and manages a smugmug site.

It uses the smugmug API. Integrating komodo's level of function
into digikam,, so the awkward middle step of konq is not needed,
would certainly be nice.

http://komodo.rabien.com 
C++ source is available. I don't know if it is GPL or what.

To the OP.. I'm not sure why you are restricted to uploading one
image at at a time from konq. I select many then drag and drop
(but to komodo.. the smugmug java one is buggy for me)


cheers
L

>
> m.
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[David Rolph]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Lawrence Plug <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:26:21PM +0200, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia Wednesday 30 of April 2008, David Rolph napisał:
>

> > 2.) I use Smugmug to host my photos.  They have a number of methods to
> > upload photos.  I quite understand that its a bit too early to expect an
> > interface to the smugmug API at this time.  But Smugmug does support a
> > drag and drop interface.  If I tag my photos destined for smugmug then I
> > can easily show them all on the one page and select them all.  I can
> > even drag them around in the Digikam interface, but they are not
> > dragable to the Smugmug java upload interface within their upload page.

 

> For me also drag'n'drop from Konq doesn't work.

I drag n' drop from Konqueror but agree that it is clunky.

Komododrop is a good example of a 3rd party app which uploads to
and manages a smugmug site.

It uses the smugmug API. Integrating komodo's level of function
into digikam,, so the awkward middle step of konq is not needed,
would certainly be nice.

http://komodo.rabien.com
C++ source is available. I don't know if it is GPL or what.

To the OP.. I'm not sure why you are restricted to uploading one
image at at a time from konq. I select many then drag and drop
(but to komodo.. the smugmug java one is buggy for me)

Thanks for the Komododrop link.  I'll play with it.  It seems to be not so much a solution to my problem, but a demonstration that most of the work has already been done and it would be quite easy to take this software and really build it into DigiKam.

Yes, you are right, I can drag and drop more than one at a time, so long as they are in the same folder.  At the moment, I am getting organized and tagging all my photos.  I only want to upload a small amount of them to smugmug so I'd prefer to tag several albums then just drag the lot.  But once I've tagged everything, my workflow will be just one folder I think.

cheers,
david

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