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Screen grab from Lightrooms metadata search function.

Lightroom have developed a nice Digital Asset management tool but they want you 
to pay a subscription for the rest of your life. The only subscription I like 
is Netflix.

Dr Terry Pinfold
Cytometry & Histology Lab Manager
Lecturer in Flow Cytometry
University of Tasmania
17 Liverpool St, Hobart, 7000
Ph 6226 4846 or 0408 699053
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From: Niranjan Rao <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 18 January 2021 6:01 AM
To: Terry Pinfold <[email protected]>; KOVÁCS István 
<[email protected]>
Cc: Darktable Users List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [darktable-user] Best way to tag image from command line?

I have never used lightroom hence the question.

Which exact search features are missing from darktable? I find collect images 
module more than sufficient where you can manipulate various and/or conditions 
to search/filter images.

With image data in proper SQL database, searching images should be relatively 
easy to handle and darktable already allows many of the searches. If there is 
data in database, it can be queried, if it's not there, we can log feature 
requests for better cataloging.

Personally, I believe collect images module is least noticed module and many 
don't see other features like tag hierarchy etc available. I myself was unaware 
and started writing my own code until someone kindly pointed existing features 
and told me how to use it.

I did face a challenge of collecting the images in portrait mode, but quick 
look at database and help from others got me on the track. I believe data is 
there, but priorities are on improving images, not on searching images which 
can be achieved by external tools. Only gotcha here is may be darktable needs 
to be publish official schema or API so that other tools can use it.

Regards,

Niranjan

On 1/16/21 12:28 PM, Terry Pinfold wrote:
Hi Kofa,
      I am using windows 10 with V3.4 and do not see any of the mentioned 
presets in lighttable. It is not a big issue to me but one of the advantages of 
Lightroom is its ability to search images based on text or extensive metadata 
including camera, lens, ISO etc. The editing capabilities of Darktable is more 
important to me than the digital asset management tools, but I guess it would 
be nice to have both.


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From: KOVÁCS István <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2021 7:32 PM
To: Niranjan Rao <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: Darktable Users List 
<[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>'m
Subject: Re: [darktable-user] Best way to tag image from command line?

You may not need to tag them. Try this:
On the lighttable, using the 'collect images' module => 'hamburger'
(presets) menu -> portrait, landscape, or square. Those are just
predefined filters using metadata -> capture details -> aspect ratio
(less than, greater than or equal to 1). I'm on the master branch, but
I think this is available with 3.4 as well.

Kofa
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