Help starting with digikam

[Brano]

I'm relatively new to digikam and trying to find out how to do few basic
things (from my perspective).

Is there a way to create virtual collections similar to lightroom?
Example: I'd need my wife to review pictures and select them to few
virtual collections i.e. "send to a friend" "print to prints" "post to web"
Then I'd go in, find the "send to friend" collection and export it to
jpeg certain size.
"print to prints" would be exported using different export rules (less
compression, resize 4:3)

I was unable to find similar "collection" functionality ...is anything,
no necessary exactly same, available?
Is there a way to batch process pictures in a collection without having
go one by one? I was not able to see any filters when doing i.e. batch
resizing.

Lastly is there a way to have same JPG and RAW being treated as bonded
couple?

Any hints how to accomplish these tasks highly appreciated ;)
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[David Moran-3]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Brano<[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm relatively new to digikam and trying to find out how to do few basic
> things (from my perspective).
>
> Is there a way to create virtual collections similar to lightroom?
> Example: I'd need my wife to review pictures and select them to few
> virtual collections i.e. "send to a friend" "print to prints" "post to web"
> Then I'd go in, find the "send to friend" collection and export it to
> jpeg certain size.
> "print to prints" would be exported using different export rules (less
> compression, resize 4:3)
>

You could always apply specific tags to pictures within the program to
accomplish what you desire.

-David
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[Brano]

On 08/26/2009 02:05 AM, David Moran wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Brano<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm relatively new to digikam and trying to find out how to do few basic
>> things (from my perspective).
>>
>> Is there a way to create virtual collections similar to lightroom?
>> Example: I'd need my wife to review pictures and select them to few
>> virtual collections i.e. "send to a friend" "print to prints" "post to web"
>> Then I'd go in, find the "send to friend" collection and export it to
>> jpeg certain size.
>> "print to prints" would be exported using different export rules (less
>> compression, resize 4:3)
>>
>>      
> You could always apply specific tags to pictures within the program to
> accomplish what you desire.
>
>
>    

Thanks. Looks like Tags will do it for me.
Quick question, where are tags stored? I understand they must somewhere
in DB, but are tags also stored directly in picture file? EXIF|IPTC|XMP?
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[Vlado Plaga]

Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:25:15 -0400
schrieb Brano <[hidden email]>:

> Thanks. Looks like Tags will do it for me.
> Quick question, where are tags stored? I understand they must
> somewhere in DB, but are tags also stored directly in picture file?
> EXIF|IPTC|XMP? _______________________________________________

Quick answer: digiKam's reasonable default behaviour is not to modify
pictures in any way, if I'm not mistaken. But it is possible to also
(in addition to the database) store tags and star ratings in the
pictures' meta data: go to "preferences / meta data". It seems like
digiKam can then completely restore its database by collecting metadata
from the pictures, which is especially useful if you transfer some or
all of your pictures to a different system.
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[Milan Knížek]

Brano píše v St 26. 08. 2009 v 11:25 -0400:
> Thanks. Looks like Tags will do it for me.
> Quick question, where are tags stored? I understand they must somewhere
> in DB, but are tags also stored directly in picture file? EXIF|IPTC|XMP?
Once you set digiKam to write tag to metadata, you can check which tags
(EXIF, IPTC, XMP) are used and how the hierarchy is stored in the
right-hand bar "Metadata" or on the command line with "exiv2 -pa
image.jpg".

regards,

Milan Knizek
knizek (dot) confy (at) volny (dot) cz
http://www.milan-knizek.net - About linux and photography (Czech
language only)

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[Brano]

> Brano píše v St 26. 08. 2009 v 11:25 -0400:
>    
>> Thanks. Looks like Tags will do it for me.
>> Quick question, where are tags stored? I understand they must somewhere
>> in DB, but are tags also stored directly in picture file? EXIF|IPTC|XMP?
>>      
> Once you set digiKam to write tag to metadata, you can check which tags
> (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) are used and how the hierarchy is stored in the
> right-hand bar "Metadata" or on the command line with "exiv2 -pa
> image.jpg".
>
>    

Thanks, this is great. This allows me to work with one set of photos
from two machines ...having my wife tag what she wants to print from her
laptop, then I can re-sync tags and take it from there on my pc.
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