On 03/19/15 10:18, Viktor Hedefalk wrote: > Hi, > > I have finally sat down and started to look into how I can manage my > photos. I have previously used Aperture, but actually started to look > for a replacement before they announced that they would drop it since > they never supported any decent way of storing in NAS. I think Lightroom > started to support some NAS way of doing things but I would really like > to go FOSS when it comes to this. I basically can't dare to spend so > much time learning a tool without knowing… > > I have "searched the internets" for a while now and made up my mind that > darktable looks like the way to go. The "cache locally" seems to be just > the thing I want since I will mostly work on a MBP that couldn't > possible fit all my images. > > I just bought a ReadyNAS 104 with RAID1 and set up a share for my > photos. I'm currently rsyncing up one of my Aperture libraries (I have > two since both MBP and Mac Pro and there never was any good way of sharing) > > My biggest concern is actually in the photo "management" side of things. > I'm not a power user when it comes to image development, but I think I > put "power demands" on image management. > > I want to be able to browse around my entire collection which is already > above 1 TB and tag, rate and stuff like that, but I'm fine with only > working with developing the ones I have cached locally. I'll try to put > down my concerns: > > 1) How do I import my current library in a good way into darktable? I > was about to try to import recursively the entire Aperture library > masters which is basically foldered like yyyy/mm/dd, but now read that > that was really a bad idea. Is it possible to script importing each > "day" one by one? It's really not feasible for me to import each folder > separately by hand.
"Collections" comes to mind. I would try to import all in one shot, and use collections to do the tagging. Collect using dates. Let us know how darktable handled this great amount of images. http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch02s02s02.html.php > > 3) What is a reasonable workflow for importing images later on from my > camera? I mean, I really want to do as little work as possible. Say I'm > travelling and need to import the RAW files to my local MBP drive to > work on them. When I later come home I want to place the RAWS on the > NAS. Do I then loose the edits I made and have to re-import in darktable? I am using darktable just for private use. This is working for me: 1) I have a small bash script which moves images from SD-card into a folder yyyy/mm/dd, based on exif data. 2) Reviewing the images very fast with geeqie, and rename/split the folder as needed. 3) Delete the really bad files from within geeqie (moving to trash). 4) Set "comma separated tags to be applied when importing" in Darktable settings 4) Import folder into Darktable. 5) Filter: View all except rejected. 6) Lighttable, tab, zooming in to see just one image, reject the bad ones (Key r), go to next with arrow key. 7) Lighttable, rate the rest (key 1,2,3). 1: Keep for archival purpose. 2: Keep because it is part of a history. 3: Keep and develop. 8) Lightroom, ctrl+t (Tagging), Metadata (Title..) 9) Filter: 3 stars. 10) Develop in Darkroom. Review rating. Rate with 2/3/4 stars. 4: Can be showed to public. Export, upload, print... 11) Filter: 2 stars. 12) Develop in Darkroom. Review rating. Rate with 2/3/4 stars. Export, print... 13) Filter rejected only, and delete if no longer needed. > > 4) I'm probably gonna use AFP, is that ok? > > Thanks a lot, > Viktor Urs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
