I apologize if this is a dumb question (I've never used Lightroom), but how is using tags different from a "virtual collection"? You can even create nested tags, so you could have a category called "my virtual collections" and then tags below that.
Regards, Owen On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Tony Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 08:16 -0700, [email protected] wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:23:41 +0200 >> Christian Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > This topic is discussed frequently, one of the last threads was >> > “Film roll vs folder” starting on 2015-11-16. Film rolls are >> > related >> > to file system paths, each film roll will hold a subset of images >> > of >> > a folder. Therefore, you would need a copy (or link) of the image >> > in >> > several folders, and even then, the edit history would not be the >> > same. One could argue about other methods for collections, but I >> > guess at the moment tags is probably the closest you will get. >> I did see that and I asked because P. Shanahan said: >> >> > >> > A "film roll" is a *collection* of images whereas a folder is a >> > directory, a storage structure. >> but from everything else, they look to be the same. >> >> What I'm trying to do is: >> >> 1. Collections >> 2. Virtual copies but each belonging to different collection > > It sounds like you want a similar feature to 'virtual collections' in > LightRoom where you can add images arbitrarily to a user created > collection. > > In my experience, DT does not support this functionality. I get round > this by using tags, where the tag is your 'virtual collection'. You can > use the 'collect images' panel on the left hand side to select all > images with a given tag. > > Virtual collections would be a really useful feature in DT, but looking > at the database structure I can imagine it's a fair amount of work to > implement, and that's assuming the developers want to do so! > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold | IT Security Analyst | University of Manchester | IT Services | > T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 | M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 | E: > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
