Noah Slater wrote: > Hello, > > I use Geeqie to select photographs from very large collections, such as the > thousands I might take on a shoot. As it stands, run through the photographs > in > a directory, deleting the ones that I don't think should make it to the next > stage of the selection process. I usually do this a number of times, using > different directories, until I have a small handful that I like. > > Because I the selection process is subjective, I add safety measures such as > copying the photographs to a new directory for each run, or running through a > copy of the same directory twice so that I can merge the selection pools of > two > identical runs. This is a tedious process, and prone to errors. > > I would like to suggest the following features: > > * A scorecard for each photo that can be incremented or decremented using > keyboard shortcuts. Two obvious shortcuts would be "-" and "=". After > pressing a key, a notification area could display the score. - and = are used for zoom. (and _ and + are used for linked zoom)
> * A way of sorting on the list of photographs by score. It should be trivial to add score to the sort menu once it's added. > I could then change my workflow to: > > * Go into a random, repeated, slideshow of a directory of photographs. > > * Run through the slideshow multiple times, scoring each photograph with > either a single positive or single negative vote, or perhaps none. > > * Sort the directory of photographs by score. > > * Delete all those photographs bellow a certain threshold. Admittedly, I don't see the point in deleting images. Disk is cheap, mistakes are not, and rm is forever. > What do you think? Perhaps this is already possible? Score (aka stars) would be nice. You can already (sort of, see caveat at end) get a big step up over your current workflow by using keywords and/or marks. There are six marks, which you can toggle with the number keys 1–6. Hit "m" to see the marks in the directory listview. You can also easily filter on marks by clicking the appropriate square that appears above the listview. So, the workflow I imagine is something like: - Go through, add Mark 1 to the images that make the first cut - Filter out Mark 1 (do this via the Select menu) to go through the images that didn't make the first cut. Add any that you've changed your mind about. - Restrict to only Mark 1 images by clicking the box above the listview - Go through, add Mark 2 to images that make the second cut - (etc.) - Add some keyword to images that make the final cut. There is one serious problem with this workflow. Hopefully, though, it shouldn't be too hard to fix. The problem is that there is no good way to save marks. That is, marks themselves aren't saved as part of the image metadata, and (more importantly) there is no way to bulk-add keywords. People who know this part of the code: please, please, please add a way to bulk-add keywords. I doubt I'll get time to poke at geeqie this weekend, and I'd need to learn this part of the code anyway. --xsdg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
