Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

[Dale]

Michael Mol wrote:
> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around
> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got
> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different
> camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes
> RAW, sometimes both.
>
> And I've never really managed them well.
>
> Does anyone have any photo management tool they like? I've got bits of
> Qt and Gtk installed already, and while I'd prefer to avoid pulling in
> a full desktop environment, I might--if the tool is good enough. It
> would have to:
>
> * Handle RAW (via libraw or dcraw is fine), JPEG, PNG[1] and TIFF[1]
> content and metadata
> * Index by metadata, including things like the recording camera's
> serial number[2]
> * Not be destructive, or ambiguous about being destructive, on image
> import. I tried using Amarok to organize my music, which is in similar
> disarray, and I was never sure if it was being destructive about the
> source files/folders. So I made copies. Which ultimately added to the
> disarray.
>
>
> [1] My postprocessing occasionally winds up in lossless formats like these.
> [2] My fiancee and I have the same model camera, and occasionally need
> to share memory cards, so I'd like to be able to use serial number to
> distinguish whose is whose.
>


As someone who also takes a LOT of pictures at times, I don't use
software, I just use directories.  Mine starts out like this:  Camera
directory > Year > subject matter > image  That works for me.  I used to
not have the year but that ends up with a LOT of pictures in a
directory.  Example of mine as it goes to a actual image:

Camera-pics/2012/New Years/2012-01-05-8.JPG

I have been using gtkam to download my pics for years.  Thing is, it has
a bug up its butt and wants to crash at random times, usually when
changing the directories.  Anyway, it always crashes before I am done
and lets just say it gets on my freaking nerves.  So, I tried digikam.
Well, my camera has multiple directories and for some reason it doesn't
show them all and then duplicates other images to boot.  I may have 2 or
3 copies of the same picture.  I have yet to figure out why that is and
google, now startpage, has not helped me either.  Maybe I am searching
for the wrong thing?

If you want software to help manage your images, I'd try digikam.  If it
works for you and your camera, it should do fine.  If you want to go my
route, try gtkam and hope like heck it doesn't crash for you too.  Right
now, both of those get on my nerves for different reasons.

Hope that helps and is clearer than mud.  Maybe someone will come along
with a better plan for us both too.  lol

Dale

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