On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around >> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got >> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different >> camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes >> RAW, sometimes both. >> >> And I've never really managed them well. >> >> Does anyone have any photo management tool they like? I've got bits of >> Qt and Gtk installed already, and while I'd prefer to avoid pulling in >> a full desktop environment, I might--if the tool is good enough. It >> would have to: >> >> * Handle RAW (via libraw or dcraw is fine), JPEG, PNG[1] and TIFF[1] >> content and metadata >> * Index by metadata, including things like the recording camera's >> serial number[2] >> * Not be destructive, or ambiguous about being destructive, on image >> import. I tried using Amarok to organize my music, which is in similar >> disarray, and I was never sure if it was being destructive about the >> source files/folders. So I made copies. Which ultimately added to the >> disarray. >> >> >> [1] My postprocessing occasionally winds up in lossless formats like these. >> [2] My fiancee and I have the same model camera, and occasionally need >> to share memory cards, so I'd like to be able to use serial number to >> distinguish whose is whose. >> > > > As someone who also takes a LOT of pictures at times, I don't use > software, I just use directories. Mine starts out like this: Camera > directory > Year > subject matter > image That works for me. I used to > not have the year but that ends up with a LOT of pictures in a > directory. Example of mine as it goes to a actual image: > > Camera-pics/2012/New Years/2012-01-05-8.JPG > > I have been using gtkam to download my pics for years. Thing is, it has > a bug up its butt and wants to crash at random times, usually when > changing the directories. Anyway, it always crashes before I am done > and lets just say it gets on my freaking nerves. So, I tried digikam. > Well, my camera has multiple directories and for some reason it doesn't > show them all and then duplicates other images to boot. I may have 2 or > 3 copies of the same picture. I have yet to figure out why that is and > google, now startpage, has not helped me either. Maybe I am searching > for the wrong thing? > > If you want software to help manage your images, I'd try digikam. If it > works for you and your camera, it should do fine. If you want to go my > route, try gtkam and hope like heck it doesn't crash for you too. Right > now, both of those get on my nerves for different reasons. > > Hope that helps and is clearer than mud. Maybe someone will come along > with a better plan for us both too. lol
Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card reader, and copy from there. -- :wq
