Import-Workflow with RAW-Pictures

[Axel Klein]

Dear Digikam-Team,

First I want to thank you for the excellent work you are doing by
providing digikam to the open-source community. Very useful and
promising software.

I would like to have a work-flow for importing photos like the
following:
1. Import the photos (both .jpg and .cr2) from a camera or Memory-Card.
   That's possible.Check.
2. Rename the photos according to a scheme that fits to my ideas.
   I recognized that it is possible to rename a bunch of photos but  
   I have not found a way to save this scheme for later use. I always
   have to re-enter the renaming-pattern.
   -> Is there a way to save the renaming-pattern?
3. After importing, I would like to move the raw-files (.cr2) to a
   different location within the same 'importing process'.
   Would that be possible?
4. I would like to have the a possibility to keep the raw-files (.cr2)
   as versions of the .jpg-files and be able to administrate them in a
   way that I can for example distribute EXIF-Data, tags, stars to all
   versions of the same photo in an efficient way.
   -> I did not find such possibilities in Digikam. Could you comment
      on that?

Thank you in advance for your comments.
Best regards
Axel

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[Dr. Martin Senftleben]

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Am 24.08.2011 11:10, schrieb Axel:

> Dear Digikam-Team,
>
> First I want to thank you for the excellent work you are doing by
> providing digikam to the open-source community. Very useful and
> promising software.
>
> I would like to have a work-flow for importing photos like the
> following:
> 2. Rename the photos according to a scheme that fits to my ideas.
>    I recognized that it is possible to rename a bunch of photos but  
>    I have not found a way to save this scheme for later use. I always
>    have to re-enter the renaming-pattern.
>    -> Is there a way to save the renaming-pattern?

When you download the images, you can actually also decide which name
the images should get. I find the renaming options very extensive. The
option is in the bottom left of the download screen. In my system, the
settings I set there are kept.

> 3. After importing, I would like to move the raw-files (.cr2) to a
>    different location within the same 'importing process'.
>    Would that be possible?

No idea. Not within the importing process. After importing, you can
filter all cr2 images, highlight them and move them elsewhere.

That's all I can say. Maybe others have better/more ideas.

Regards

Martin
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Le 24/08/2011 11:10, Axel a écrit :
> Dear Digikam-Team,
>
> First I want to thank you for the excellent work you are doing by
> providing digikam to the open-source community. Very useful and
> promising software.
>
> I would like to have a work-flow for importing photos like the
> following:

for 1 to 3, I don't see the use to do it in digiKam. I find much
simpler to use standard explorer and little scripts. Possibilities are
so a number than a little manuel fitting is very often needed

http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Photo.PhotoNumerique
http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Doc.Linux

(need sorting, yes :-()

> 4. I would like to have the a possibility to keep the raw-files (.cr2)
>     as versions of the .jpg-files and be able to administrate them in a
>     way that I can for example distribute EXIF-Data, tags, stars to all
>     versions of the same photo in an efficient way.
>     ->  I did not find such possibilities in Digikam. Could you comment
>        on that?

this I could tell "exif synchronisation". I have also this problem,
and will probably some day solve it with exif2 scripting.

Basically, it's very simple (extract exifs then import them), but My
images endup at a moment or an other having some differences in the
name - I try to keep always a common part, but with the feature of my
various cameras, it's not easy, so I have to manage this and I'm a
terrible scripter :-(

For example, my workflow is basically the following:

* copy all the photos to folders by date - part of the folder name can
be more than the date: author name (if not me), location... the photo
name itself often shows the camera brand (IMG000xxx.jpg, P000xxx.jpg,
"2011-08-22 18-30.jpg" from my android smartphone (with the blank inside!)

* then I copy this all to a digiKam folder for future edit. But then I
have to "detox" it
(http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Photo.NormaliserPourPiwigo#toc3)
then sometime remove unexpected part from the sync application
(http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Photo.NormaliserPourPiwigo#toc4)

* then I have to trick the file name with a small script, mostly like
this::

.............
rename JPG jpg *.JPG
rename .jpeg .jpg *.jpeg
for I in *.jpg ; do
        rename  $I "$RANDOM"-$I $I ;
done
............

the random part is to protect files from the online bots when I
publish them (one photo can be public, but the next private)

so I have to insert the sync part somewhere, given I have also to
merge online (piwigo) tags and digikam ones

frankly, I don't see digikam have to manage this, not wanting so. I
often have to change a small bit in my scripts, for example to cope
with small gallery change

jdd



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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2011/8/24 Dr. Martin Senftleben <[hidden email]>

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Am <a href="tel:24.08.2011%2011" value="[phone]">24.08.2011 11:10, schrieb Axel:

> Dear Digikam-Team,
>
> First I want to thank you for the excellent work you are doing by
> providing digikam to the open-source community. Very useful and
> promising software.
>
> I would like to have a work-flow for importing photos like the
> following:

> 2. Rename the photos according to a scheme that fits to my ideas.
>    I recognized that it is possible to rename a bunch of photos but
>    I have not found a way to save this scheme for later use. I always
>    have to re-enter the renaming-pattern.
>    -> Is there a way to save the renaming-pattern?

When you download the images, you can actually also decide which name
the images should get. I find the renaming options very extensive. The
option is in the bottom left of the download screen. In my system, the
settings I set there are kept.

> 3. After importing, I would like to move the raw-files (.cr2) to a
>    different location within the same 'importing process'.
>    Would that be possible?

No idea. Not within the importing process. After importing, you can
filter all cr2 images, highlight them and move them elsewhere.
That's all I can say. Maybe others have better/more ideas.

At import, setup Album creation folder based on type mime.

In 2.1.0, i just introduced an option to setup a default download path for all import (for ex. a dedicated HDD)

 

For the moment, there is no setup for default download area based on type mime.

Gilles Caulier

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