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Darktable is mostly for RAW processing, Digikam is for organization / tagging afaik.
What is considered the best DAM (digital asset manager) for photos?
Adobe Lightroom for a lot of people.
Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#42Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.
This comment seems mean, perhaps. But, Picasa's facial recognition was far better than Digikam's and I marveled at how Picasa could do so quickly, so long ago, what Digikam has failed to do (until now?). I've been a Digikam user for a long time now, it's really useful for me, but the whole face-tagging system has been really poor for a long time IMO (eg all faces recognised in one image as same person; all tags recog…
Yeah, the the comment does sound mean. Not to blame you, since you indicate that you understand this.
The digikam devs can be court at times, but that's mostly because many people show up with great expectations; mostly expectations of having someone else implement this or that. I shouldn't throw stones here really, I was one of those people a few years back.
The project is huge and the core dev team quite small [1], essentially just two people and the occasional drive-by. This is one of those projects that I'd really like to see someone figure out a stable revenue stream. I'd guess that a lot of this is not "interesting" programming, but rather tedious "clocking in, clocking out" footwork.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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You can do multithreaded without client-server or multiprocess
And crash in the most spectacular way.
Right, computers do have loads of RAM. So just spin up a chromium fork for the UI, and a handful of http servers for the different background tasks, pull in a bazillion of dependencies, and... it's gone. The RAM, that is.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#44I'm currently using Google Photos for facial recognition, however since they broke their Google Drive integration I'd like to move away from it. For now I am using a combination of Syncthing, the Google Photos interface and rclone. Is there an API or potential to use this in headless for integration in other apps such as web or Android? What about the automated cards and animations that Google Photos creates? Is ther…
Nextcloud is self-hosted solution and there is plugin for it that allows you to recognize and cluster faces (to persons) using DLib: https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition. This might be close to what you need (while Nextcloud is huge software on its own, it is not best photo management app)
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#45How reliable is the face recognition in 7.0? In older versions it was not as good as closed source software like picasa.
If it is same software https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition has been using (DLib, King's face model) - I can say it is very, very good! Yes, there can be lamppost here and there, but it is miles ahead of OpenCV haar cascade
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#46Are the people tags saved to the photo's file metadata somehow? I've thrown about 130,000 photos up to google photos for safe-keeping but want a second set of redundancy.
Just so you know... Google Photos is full of dark patterns. For example there's no way to mass delete pictures. It simply doesn't exist.
There's a janky browser script on GitHub that you inject into the page to delete your photos. That's what I had to use when I migrated to OneDrive.
And some Android phones are configured to automatically upload to Google Photos to "save space" on the device. I recovered thousands of lost photos for my parents that got deleted from their phones and uploaded to Google without their knowledge. My Dad has been backing up his photos for years, but half were missing from the backup because I found them on Google photos.
It took the browser automation script hours to delete all their photos after I got them out.
Even worse, when I was trying to remove duplicates from the set, I found that Google alters the metadata of the photos you export. So when you try to compare them you can't use regular diff tools
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#47KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!
I believe the preferred environment for KDE is one in which you are liable to have the most recent libraries including bug fixes which sadly has often not been the case for people using kde + ubuntu.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#48Digikam has always been a gem. This sounds like a great improvement.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#49Can I attach the face-tags to the RAW file (or the XMP, I guess) and use them in other applications, specifically darktable?
Yes but you need to configure Digikam to write metadata in its settings. Should be able to write to either EXIF or XMP.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#50Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.
> Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.
I hear ya, brother! I still have the final version of Picasa for Windows and Linux. What a shame it's proprietary.