Tagging and search capabilities in darktable are excellent. In case if
it's not clear, tags can be hierarchical like family|person and you can
search either by family or by person.
While it's not easily apparent, collections in lighttable is very
powerful. It allows you to do searches what would amount SQL's "and" and
"or" operations. It also allows you to filter based on date, location.
So you can easily search for images taken by my X camera with lens Y and
having ISO blah - just as an example.
While I don't have half a million images in my collection, I do maintain
what I consider a sizeable collection. After I went through tagging and
geotagging exercise I've never faced any issues locating the images I want.
I still have following items in my wishlist though. It could be there,
but I have not explored it enough. There is a custom sort option, but
have not spent time to see what it does.
* Filtering the current view based on some other criteria apart from
ratings and rejected. It's pain to keep adjusting collection, but
similar functionality can be achieved.
* Sorting by multiple fields. For a family tree like Grand Father |
Children | Grand children, sometimes I have a need to sort by
children and then grand children to keep each family together.
Regards,
Niranjan
On 10/8/21 1:30 PM, Terry Pinfold wrote:
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] <mailto:[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
LorenzoFontanella
http://www.lorenzofontanella.it <http://www.lorenzofontanella.it>
Il giorno ven 8 ott 2021 alle ore 11:35 Terry Pinfold
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
Yes, that's it. Works well
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 5:39 pm Bernhard,
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> * Terry Pinfold <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
>>
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regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de <https://www.bilddateien.de>
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