Is it possible to get digikam to store files in a simple date based directory structure? I really wanted to like digikam, but ended up using rapid-photo-downloader instead because it was so easy to setup that way, and it keeps me from being too locked in to software that might go away.
Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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#122Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs ) It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizin…
I find it ironic that you complain about applications being stuck in the 90s and then use 127.0.0.1 instead of ::1 or just localhost.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't seen anything open source that comes close to Lightroom, even if you only consider LR versions from ten years ago. Although LR used to have the habit of getting really slow with larger libraries, it mostly just works and doesn't get in the way, while stuff like darktable is just... weird. Darktable has similar issues to GIMP, as in, that it hypothetically has a lot of features, but the usability is pretty p…
Lightroom classic is good, the new one is complete trash as far as UI and performance goes, same with all other new Adobe products. Illustrator, Photoshop. I guess they moved to web tech on the desktop, too.
I agree with the sentiment on the new Lightroom being trash, although I do think something nice came out of Adobe's efforts of the past few years.
One thing that kept me from post-processing a lot of my pictures was the necessity of doing it on the desktop. I'd come back from holidays and didn't really make the time, I guess it can be attributed to laziness.
Nowadays however, I have a subscription for Lightroom and can import the photos on my iPad and edit them on the go, or from the comfort of my couch. I love it.
When I fire up Lightroom classic on the desktop, it downloads everything (originals) I've uploaded on the iPad from the Lightroom cloud. Although this has some inconveniences - it's just dumped into a folder without any regard for organisation - it prevents a complete vendor lock-in. Without that feature I wouldn't have considered this approach.
I love to take pictures, but post-processing is not exactly my favourite activity. I feel that all the tricks I used to get me to develop more on the desktop (e.g. getting a midi board for editing) didn't really get me anywhere, but the Adobe cloud + iPad just did the trick for me.
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#124Bah! I was really hoping Digikam's face recognition was going to work at least as well as the 10+ yr old Picassa that I'm trying to replace... but I'm not having any luck - pretty disappointing matching. Even with dozens of images manually identified it is failing to match the same person correctly in other pictures.
Plus, the interface is confusing and not very efficient (in aiding the matching/identification process).
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#125Bah! I was really hoping Digikam's face recognition was going to work at least as well as the 10+ yr old Picassa that I'm trying to replace... but I'm not having any luck - pretty disappointing matching. Even with dozens of images manually identified it is failing to match the same person correctly in other pictures. Plus, the interface is confusing and not very efficient (in aiding the matching/identification proces…
Then you will be happy to know that they are working on exactly those problems right now (see the article part and look for summer of code).
> As you can see, work is advancing very well and we expect to publish new code later this summer, probably for digiKam 7.2.0 when all implementations will be tested and ready for production.
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#126Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).
https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-11-09-6.4.0_release_announ...
Search for "External Raw Import Tools as Plugins". I suggest you take a look at rawtherapee as well. I personally use both darktable and rawtherapee and find rawtherapee to be better suited for some usecases.
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#127It would be nice if it could display UTF-8 text. Apparently it only uses ISO 8859-1.
The linked post specifically says it supports UTF-8. Might double check the settings.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have never been formally diagnosed, but I cannot even recognize the faces of my own family members to save my life. And I thought I had this disease. I think root of my issue most likely is that my brain is assuming that most people I see on the street or during parties I will never see again so it immediately forgets faces and names and only starts remembering when I encounter them few times. I would imagine the…
But not recognizing faces of people you see at parties is different from not recognizing your own family. Do you have the latter too?
LOL, after editing the comment I cut out the important part. What I meant to say is that I thought I had that disease, but after reading the comment I doubt I have it.
I also suspect that many celebrities who claim that they have it probably just have a bad memory. They are normally meeting a lot of people so it's not easy to remember faces.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about RawTherapee? How does it stack against darktable and LR?
RawTherapee and Darktable is simply the Develop part of Lightroom.
So RawTherapee/Darktable + Digikam would cover lightroom areas?
I never used lightroom, so I don't know what I might be missing.
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#130I wish there was photo management software which catered to non-enterprise multi-user environments. ie families, or small organizations where the photos (and database) would reside on a computer, but other users on their computers could access it via the local network. At the moment, this middle ground doesn't seem to exist. It's either single-user only photo management software or full-blown multi-user digital asset…
PhotoStructure is absolutely designed for self-hosted family-and-friends access of local photos and videos. You'll get installation instructions emailed to you shortly after you subscribe to the beta. https://PhotoStructure.com (Disclaimer: I'm the author, and wished the same thing you did, so I quit my job to build it).
Any chance the website could show a screenshot or something? It’s just a generic thing right now and I have no interest in signing up to something I can’t see.