Migration from Photoshop
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Hello,
I'm trying to migrate from Adobe Photoshop Album. I've got over 5k photo's, so re-tagging isn't an option. So I'm trying to automate this. With the tool "PSATool" I've managed to put the tag information from Photoshop in a text file. Here's a small sample of the file. --BEGIN EXTRACT-- d:\documenten van peter\mijn afbeeldingen\fotoapp\DSCN1655.JPG;615;photo;online;2004-07-07 20:27:35;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (29/07/2004 14:21:43)";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"Amerika";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"Chinatown";"Plaatsen"\"USA"\"San Francisco";"Verzameling"\"VSA" --END EXTRACT-- Each line in the file represents one picture. It contains the filename and tag information plus some, for me, irrelevant information. Till the first semicolon: The path in Windows. Only the filename is relevant to me since all the pictures are in the same folder on my linux box. Note that this is not the case on my windows-installation. Than, the next relevant information starts just past the "import date". Everything past here is tag information. Each tag is seperated by a semicolon. For example "Amerika" is a subtag from "USA", wich is a subtag from "Plaatsen". This picture should get the tags Amerika, Chinatown, San Francisco and VSA. I'll give some more extracts with some curiosities. ----> d:\documenten van peter\mijn afbeeldingen\fotoapp\canon\IMG_4957.JPG;2342;photo;online;2005-03-30 15:40:30;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (4/09/2005 17:03:34)";"Canon" <---- Note the different folder this image was stored in. It should get the tag Canon. ----> D:\Documenten van Peter\Mijn afbeeldingen\fotoapp\DSCN3144.MOV;2533;video;online;2005-11-19 13:41:56;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (3/12/2005 17:27:48)";"Mensen"\"Familie"\"Sander";"Bezigheden"\"Paardrijden";"Filmpjes"\"Paardrijden - filmpjes" <---- Note that this is not a picture. This line doesn't have to be imported. But if it was a picture it should get the tags Sander, Bezigheden and "Paardrijden - filmpjes". The tag "Sander" has to be located in the 'super'tag "Familie" wich should be in the 'super'tag "Mensen". All my images are stored in /home/peter/Pictures/ now. So with no sub-directories. I'm using version 0.8.2 of DigiKam on KDE 3.5.5 on openSuse10.2. I haven't upgraded to the latest version because the suse packagers haven't put the latest vesion in their update program. And I don't like to mess around with something that is already working great. I'd like to have this information into the digikam-database, but I don't have a clue of how to do it. For the moment the database only contains my pictures which are all contained in the same album. So no tag information is thare at all. I've got very few experience in programming and SQL. Lets say I can read it, but not write. If I can get passed this problem, I'll finaly be able to really use this wonderfull program. Thanks in advance for your help. Peter Nijs (sorry about my bad English. If something isn't clear, just ask for a clarification.) _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
Re: Migration from Photoshop
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2007/3/16, Peter Nijs <[hidden email]>: Gilles CaulierHello, But you mising something important. digiKam 0.9.1 can recreate automaticly the tags using the IPTC keywords embeded in images. I Photoshop album support IPTC, why not use it ? Can you send me in private some pictures to test here with my computer ? _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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The IPTC function seems very usefull. Sadly enough, Photoshop Album version
2.0 (the one I have) can't export the tag information to the metadata. I've heard version 3.0 can, I can't find a demo. Adobe dicontinued it I think. And one of my computers can't run version 3.0. Also, I don't have the image files on my windows partition of my better pc anymore. I've only got a copy of the Photoshop album databases. (I'm migrating on two computers). I think the easiest way is to make a script that reads the .txt file and puts the tag information in the image's metadata. Than wait for Digikam version 0.9.1 to be available in suse rpm. I think this won't take long anymore. I can install 0.9.0 via an unofficial source via yast. Using this way doesn't require messing around with the Digikam database, which is kind of a relief for me. I think I can also recreate the txt file so it only contains the actual tag it is tagged with, and not the entire tag-tree. I don't have that many tags, so I can reorganise them. (There are no 2 tags with the same name.) The first extract will look like this than: ----> d:\documenten van peter\mijn afbeeldingen\fotoapp\DSCN1655.JPG;615;photo;online;2004-07-07 20:27:35;"";"Gemporteerde afbeeldingen"\"Import (29/07/2004 14:21:43)";"Amerika";"Chinatown";"San Francisco";"VSA" <---- Maybe I can also make PSATool only output the filename without the full path. I'll try to make the output as usefull as it kan get for me. I've just seen that most images have filenames in lowercase and some in uppercase. And all filenames in my txt file are in uppercase. This might give problems in Linux. Thank for the help. Peter Nijs _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Ok, I have restyled my .txt. Now the entrys look like this:
---- DSCN1655.JPG;615;photo;online;2004-07-07 20:27:35;"";"Import (29/07/2004 14:21:43)";"Amerika";"Chinatown";"San Francisco";"VSA" ---- Note that the filename in real is "dscn1655.jpg". And I've found the latest version of digikam of suse10.2. Peter Nijs _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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