Hi Lorenzo,
now I realise you are on the Windows environment like myself. I will
mention it is possible to download Adobe's Bridge program free of charge
and it might be worth a look. I have Adobe's Lightroom perpetual and
subscription licenses. I do love LR's catalog system and I would cringe at
the thought of asking it to handle 500,000 images in a single database. I
would divide my images into different catalogs for speed and easy to find
what I want. 500,000 images in any single catalog sounds a challenge for
the program because the database would be so bloated.
Despite having a comprehensive suite of programs from Adobe. Maybe all of
them. I defer to DT for my editing. It is so much more fun and capable.
Occasionally I have to use GIMP as well because even DT can not do
everything. I have recently started using the color balance rgb module by
employing the 'add basic colorfulness' preset found in the hamburger. Again
someone on the list suggested this so I tried it. This adds colorfulness to
my images to give results more comparable to other programs (not that I am
advocating comparing programs). It has made me explore this module further
and I am learning to work vibrance, saturation, chroma and brilliance based
upon separate adjustments to the shadows, midtones and highlights. I am
just being continually blown away by the editing capabilities of DT
compared to Lightroom.
This thread has made me look more at the capabilities of the lightttable in
DT. I am impressed at the improvements I am seeing here. Yesterday I
explored the tagging module following the suggestion by Patrick and was
pleasantly surprised how it would find images based on keywords (tags in DT
speak). I could then right click on the keyword and have a collection of
photos display in the lighttable grid. This is showing me that DT is far
more capable at organising and finding photos than I realised. Once again
well done to the developers. I will continue to explore the capabilities of
lighttable as I get the chance. I am hoping I can use it to synchronise my
various backup hard drives for images. At this point of time I use LR
solely for this reason because it is very capable of doing that taska dn I
am used to the program, but maybe in time I may come to realise that DT
could also do. But I would not ask the developers to bloat DT to try and
match LR. The number one priority for DT should remain editing. DT also
edits JPG and Tiff files, but of course editing RAW files is the best
option in any program.
cheers,
Terry
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 at 06:53, Lorenzo Fontanella <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Good evening everyone.
> Thank you very much for many answers and for sharing your point of view
> that I share.
> For sure I'll continue to use an image organizer as a selection base and
> I'll configure it (good suggestion) in such a way that it opens directly
> the files in DT.
> Now I use XnView MP in Windows environment, but I will see if I can find
> better, although I don't think so.
> Grazie Maurizio, for recommending Digikam, but it's not for me considering
> that for better or worse it always requires importing into a database and I
> don't like that.
>
> To understand:
> my philosophy is to manage the amount of data according to a criterion
> based on names and codes given to the folders and store iptc data (keyword)
> inside the jpeg files so that now as in the future, with any software and
> on any platform I can find everything with the same criterion; and
> everything is disconnected from a central database or software.
>
> Anyway.... yes DarkTable is slightly slow in the process of displaying and
> "browsing" files AFTER importing the entire my archive.
> So I guess I will try to import only small pieces as needed.
>
> I also read among your replies that I was advised by Guillermo to "ignore"
> the DB generation, did I understand correctly?
> I don't understand how it works and how to do it.
>
>
>
> Thank you and I'm happy that you have replied many, this indicates that
> the community is structured.
> with gratitude
>
> Lorenzo Fontanella
> http://www.lorenzofontanella.it
>
> Il giorno ven 8 ott 2021 alle ore 11:35 Terry Pinfold <[email protected]>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Yes, that's it. Works well
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 5:39 pm Bernhard, <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> this one? see attached
>>>
>>> Terry Pinfold schrieb am 08.10.21 um 01:51:
>>> > Hi Patrick,
>>> > thanks for that great suggestion. The tagging module in
>>> lighttable
>>> > shows my keywords and by right clicking on the tag I can 'go to tag
>>> > collection'. This is precisely what I wanted.
>>> > Terry
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 10:33, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> * Terry Pinfold <[email protected]> [10-07-21 17:56]:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Number one for me is DT's abilty to edit. Any ability to search for
>>> and
>>> >> find my images through lighttable is a bonus. But this should never
>>> be at
>>> >> the cost of making DT a bloated program. I wonder if it would be
>>> possible
>>> >> to improve the sort by funtionality of DT to include keywords. I am
>>> not a
>>> >> developer so I don't understand what is easy and practical to
>>> impliment.
>>> >> Terry
>>> >>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>> https://www.bilddateien.de
>>>
>>>
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