Re: Photo management
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 06:35:44PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> I'm a bit at a loss as far as photo management is concerned. Some
> requirements:
>
> * I want my original image files to be stored intact. I don't want them
> rotated, or their headers modified, or anything like that. If I really
> have to, I can live with headers being edited, but I'd rather not have
> to.
>
> * I need to handle both JPEGs and RAW images (Canon's, currently).
>
> * I want flexibility as to where the image files are stored. At 10-15
> megabytes each, requiring me to have them on, say, a particular
> computer's home directory is not good. It's enough if I can point the
> photo management software to a directory of my own choosing, though.
>
> I strongly prefer GNOME over KDE or other desktop alternatives. The
> first software to try has thus been F-Spot, and that has many good
> features. It's not to my liking, though. It seems to insist on ~/Photos
> as the location, which is a highly inconvenient location for me.
Change it. See the preferences.
> It's
> also not happy about sharing the database between computers. It has
> historically liked to modify my image files, though I don't know if that
> still happens. I am sometimes confused by the interface: it shows one
> list of photos after importing, and then a full list at some point, but
> I'm not sure when it changes and why.
As I understand it the list of photo's shown after import is shown to
give you the opportunity to tag the batch. That tag will appear under
'import tags'. It is a filtered view similar to when you select a tag.
>
> The alternative I've been pondering is just keeping all photos on disk,
> in folders named by date, with maybe a text file per folder to add
> description. I've done this before, and it was somewhat tedious, but at
> least it is low-tech enough to not otherwise be troublesome, and the
> data has longevity, unlike binary database blobs.
>
There are other alternatives. You can use Picasa, digikam and several
others. Each one has it strengths and weaknesses. You can also try
Photo Organiser. It is not a debian package but you will find it on
http://freshmeat.net. It is a php-package which uses postgresql for
it's database.
Regards
Johann
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