Hi Everybody,
I'm something of a photography, Linux and Digikam novice. I've been using Digikam for some time now and its made organizing my photos easier. However, I still have some way to go till I can say I really have a photo workflow. Generally, I am taking more photos than I have time to properly organize so I want to cut down on the number of photos and streamline my management of them.
The first problem I have with my workflow is raw files. I'd like to have access to them if I need them (very rarely) and after that I want them out of the way. The ideal situation would be if DigiKam indexed the raw file and any of multiple derived images as one image, then tags etc would all apply to the group of images rather than one particular entity. However, I think thats a pretty fundamental change to the application (which might have implications I haven't considered). I'm not expecting it to happen soon or perhaps ever.
I find myself bouncing backwards and forwards between displaying "no RAWS" and "All Files" especially during my initial examination of photos for deletion and then later when I move them to appropriate folders and if I rename them. Sometimes my wife renames JPEGs without renaming the RAWs (which isn't really related to DigiKam, but is part of my workflow and makes things much harder.
So anyway, now I get to the point of my post, which I'd like you to comment on. I think I'll write a small script to go through my library every now and then and move all the RAW files to another location. I'll sort them into a directory structure tha looks like year/month/day. The advantage is no more switching between modes and worrying about moving, renaming or deleting the raws to match the jpegs.
On the rare occassion that I do need a raw I'll find it by date/time. I might still cull the RAWs when I download the files from my camera, but I am not going to worry about deleting every raw. Having useless RAWs is the downside of my idea, but I'll get over it. Besides they won't look out of place next to all the RAWs that do have matching jpegs, which are also untouched ;-)
I'll probably also rename all the jpegs by date/time.
Does anybody have a better method? Does anybody think this method might make problems for me later?
cheers,
david
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