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One photo in several albums

dseifert
Hi,

I am currently using iPhoto (an import functionality would be great!)
and really like iPhoto's concept of having only links to a photo in an
album. This allows me to have - for example - one album with ALL photos
of my vacation (album A), and another album with only a select number of
photos (for showing to other people) (album B).

digikam's definition of an album varies significantly (in regards to
this feature) from iTunes'. Using digikam albums, I would have to have
the photos in album B as duplicates of the same ones in album A. This
increases hard disk usage and it's nearly impossible to keep the photos
in sync (tags, changes, etc).

The current approach with digikam I am looking at is to use tags (e.g.
give all photos in album A the tag "Vacation XYZ complete" and give
those photos who are also in album B the tag "Vacation XYZ
presentation"). This would allow to simulate what I want to do quite
nicely.

If there is no other solution, the tag approach is something I could
live with. So here's the challenge to you - is there any better way of
doing this?

Daniel


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Re: One photo in several albums

Arnd Baecker
Hi,

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Daniel Seifert wrote:

[...]

> The current approach with digikam I am looking at is to use tags (e.g.
> give all photos in album A the tag "Vacation XYZ complete" and give
> those photos who are also in album B the tag "Vacation XYZ
> presentation"). This would allow to simulate what I want to do quite
> nicely.
>
> If there is no other solution, the tag approach is something I could
> live with. So here's the challenge to you - is there any better way of
> doing this?

Personally, I like the tags approach, but as always it is a matter
of taste and being used to other concepts ;-)

Another option is to use rating.
Eg., only images with rating >=3 are good enough to be presented
to others. Then one can easily define an Advanced Search
according to the required criteria.

HTH, Arnd
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Re: One photo in several albums

Daniel Bauer-2
In reply to this post by dseifert
On Friday 15 September 2006 19:24, Daniel Seifert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently using iPhoto (an import functionality would be great!)
> and really like iPhoto's concept of having only links to a photo in an
> album. This allows me to have - for example - one album with ALL photos
> of my vacation (album A), and another album with only a select number of
> photos (for showing to other people) (album B).
>
> digikam's definition of an album varies significantly (in regards to
> this feature) from iTunes'. Using digikam albums, I would have to have
> the photos in album B as duplicates of the same ones in album A. This
> increases hard disk usage and it's nearly impossible to keep the photos
> in sync (tags, changes, etc).
>
> The current approach with digikam I am looking at is to use tags (e.g.
> give all photos in album A the tag "Vacation XYZ complete" and give
> those photos who are also in album B the tag "Vacation XYZ
> presentation"). This would allow to simulate what I want to do quite
> nicely.
>
> If there is no other solution, the tag approach is something I could
> live with. So here's the challenge to you - is there any better way of
> doing this?
>
> Daniel

Hi Daniel

if you use tags there is no need to have the photos saved twice in two
different directories or albums.

You can use album view with the tags-filter on the right side bar and select
one or more tags to show only the selected ones, you can even select more
than one tag.

Or you an use tag view on the left side bar, click to a tag and see all
corresponding pictures from all of your albums.

This way you can put together various "virtual albums" without the need to
copy or move files physically.

regards

Daniel
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Re: One photo in several albums

dseifert
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Hi,

Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 20:06 +0200 schrieb Arnd Baecker:
> Personally, I like the tags approach, but as always it is a matter
> of taste and being used to other concepts ;-)
>
> Another option is to use rating.

I think I prefer the tags approach over the ratings. So it seems this is
the official way to go. Now I just need to import my iPhoto library into
digikam.

Daniel


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