Feature requests

[Stephen-125]

Hello all,

First, let me say a big thank you to all the developers, bug testers and
document writers for this product. I believe it is the supreme DAM for
linux,

I would like to offer the following ideas for future development.

1. A trip planner. I often see photographs, perhaps a tv show, or other
source of information where I think, I would love to go and photograph
there. At present I keep a ring binder file with this information in.
What I would love to see is to have a facility inside digikam that would
allow me to record this. Perhaps associate scans, links to google earth
etc. When I then plan a trip I could look in digikam and see which areas
I have marked for interest. Afterwards when I get back I could tie the
photographs I have taken to the original trip info.

2. Versions of the same photograph. I often produce multiple versions of
a photograph for various reasons. I would like a way to track the photos
back to their original. Perhaps back to a digital negative (raw) file.

3. Sidecar files. Would it be possible to carry sidecar files with the
photos. I use both XMP and BIB (bibble raw processor) files with my
photographs and would like to carry them together when I move things
around. Yes I know some people believe that the photograph should
contain all the metadata associated with that photograph but
unfortunately, reality is that for example the PNG format does not
contain the information in a standard way. Also many other products only
support sidecars and not embedded. And the final point on this for me
is, I will never allow anything to edit my raw files. I am too concerned
that the bespoke format is not fully understood and other software
writing to it could cause an issue in the future.

Thanks all for reading this, I would love to hear your comments.

Regards,

Stephen

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[Dotan Cohen]

> 1. A trip planner. I often see photographs, perhaps a tv show, or other
> source of information where I think, I would love to go and photograph
> there. At present I keep a ring binder file with this information in.
> What I would love to see is to have a facility inside digikam that would
> allow me to record this. Perhaps associate scans, links to google earth
> etc. When I then plan a trip I could look in digikam and see which areas
> I have marked for interest. Afterwards when I get back I could tie the
> photographs I have taken to the original trip info.
>

Make an album for each place.

> 2. Versions of the same photograph. I often produce multiple versions of
> a photograph for various reasons. I would like a way to track the photos
> back to their original. Perhaps back to a digital negative (raw) file.
>

There is an open feature request for this, check bugs.kde.org.

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On Sunday 29 March 2009 21:39:32 Stephen wrote:
> 1. A trip planner. I often see photographs, perhaps a tv show, or other
> source of information where I think, I would love to go and photograph
> there. At present I keep a ring binder file with this information in.
> What I would love to see is to have a facility inside digikam that would
> allow me to record this. Perhaps associate scans, links to google earth
> etc. When I then plan a trip I could look in digikam and see which areas
> I have marked for interest. Afterwards when I get back I could tie the
> photographs I have taken to the original trip info.

IMO such functionality doesn't belong into digiKam directly. If you want use
only images you can create album and use various form of metadata to record
your POI. But I recommend to use other application for that:
a) Kontact for todo lists with attachments, links in summaries, etc
b) IMO and this is what you are looking for: Basket http://basket.kde.org .
Unfortunately only version for KDE3 is really stable now.

> 2. Versions of the same photograph. I often produce multiple versions of
> 3. Sidecar files. Would it be possible to carry sidecar files with the

These two wishes are registered at bugs.kde.org and demand for these features
is recognized by developers.
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[Sherwood Botsford-3]

> 2. Versions of the same photograph. I often produce multiple versions of
> a photograph for various reasons. I would like a way to track the photos
> back to their original. Perhaps back to a digital negative (raw) file.
>

There is an open feature request for this, check bugs.kde.org.


I would go a step further with this:  I would like to see the concept of Sets.

I see a single leaf on a tree, lit by sunset.
I take 6 pictures each of this leaf using slightly different composition and lighting.
Back at the comptuer I discard 3.

I'd like to mark the 3 as a set.  Normally only the first of the set shows up in thumbnails, but there is an icon to show members of the set.

I select one of these for use on my web page.  I resize it twice -- once at 500 x 800 pixels for the page, and another at 764 x 1024 for people to download as a screensaver.  These two are still members of the set.  But the act of resizing has
added a tag 500x800 and 764x1024 respectively.

So now I have nested sets:
Top level has my 3 pix.
One pix has two edited versions of it.

Is this practical?

On Thursday 09 April 2009 05:14:29 SGBotsford wrote:

> I select one of these for use on my web page.  I resize it twice -- once at
> 500 x 800 pixels for the page, and another at 764 x 1024 for people to
> download as a screensaver.  These two are still members of the set.  But
> the act of resizing has
> added a tag 500x800 and 764x1024 respectively.
>
> So now I have nested sets:
> Top level has my 3 pix.
> One pix has two edited versions of it.
>
> Is this practical?

I think image versioning (which is on todo list) should take care about that.
With image versioning you could make picture in various versions and if you
want to export it to web (or somewhere else) you just check: "copy v. 2.0 to
ftp" and proper version would be created on-the-fly. In effect in such
relatively simple cases you would have on disk only one file.

m.
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